Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-17 | Page 2 | New York Deprived of Harness Meet

HEW YORK DEPRIVED OF HARNESS MEET NEW YORK. Jan 1C By action of tho Brooklyn Jockoy club today Now York will not get tho Grand Circuit trotting meeting promised for next summer. When tho Grand Circuit stewards recently admitted the dates of August 9-24 for the meeting on the Gravesend tracks of the Brooklyn, Jockoy club for light harness racing.' it was stipulated that should there be any hitch In the arrangements the Now York dates should be tranforrcd to Rockingham Park, Salem, N J Tho Brooklyn Jockey club notified the Grand Circuit stewards today that It withdrew -its amplication for the dates named. .. fhe reanon. givon was that the law-maklnq owenrn of tracks personally resjjonslblQ or gambling o tholr prcmiflesrvvouId apply with equal force to a harness race meeting as to a running-, race neqtlng. Tho Sajom track; accordingly will got tho dates. Thero has boon a complote cessation cessa-tion of racing on tracks on the Metropolitan Metro-politan circuit slnco a short time after tho directors' liability law became effective ef-fective ir