. Breeder and sportsman . ivers and theirmethods, and with the horses as well With him should betwo assistants, as it would be an utter impossibillity for ooeman to see all that is going one in a race. His decisionbhould be final, and like the umpire of a baseball game, heshould not be allowed to change a decision, even if be so de-sired. Those who disagree with him have the privilege ofappeal to the Board of Review. Iis an easv thing for peo-ple to sit comfortably in the grand stand and find fault withthe judges; but pUce most of them in the same position, andyou will hear a different tale. H
. Breeder and sportsman . ivers and theirmethods, and with the horses as well With him should betwo assistants, as it would be an utter impossibillity for ooeman to see all that is going one in a race. His decisionbhould be final, and like the umpire of a baseball game, heshould not be allowed to change a decision, even if be so de-sired. Those who disagree with him have the privilege ofappeal to the Board of Review. Iis an easv thing for peo-ple to sit comfortably in the grand stand and find fault withthe judges; but pUce most of them in the same position, andyou will hear a different tale. However, I believe the em-ployment of a professional man In the judges stand wouldbe the means cf putting a stop to a great deal of fault findingsand there seems to be such a general clamor for tbe changetbat it would not surprise me to see it preity generallyadopted next season by the associations, whether the nationalbody lakee cognizance of it or not. v^^sMssmB lis ^ij« ^veeitsv ^»t^ §pi3nct»ntixn* [Febbu^by 26,1899. RESUME OF THE WEEKS RACING. Reoard Breaking Only a Pastime for Horses atthe Local Tracks. Those wise people wlio are continually prating tliat tlietiioroughbred iiorse of America is degenerating because ofthe preponderance of sprint races on the programs of allracing associations here, receive a rude shock every once ina while. They were administered one last Saturday at Ingle-eide when the E7ergreen Stakes of a value of $1,500 wererun. It was one of those old fashioned heat races at a mileand an eighth, the record for which was held by Gabriel, agray son of Alarm and Electric, by Lightning, Gabriel wona, race of this description at Sheepshead Bay in September1880, when he was a four-year-old. He carried 112 pounds^and ran the first heat in 1:56, repeating in exactly the samenotch. For nearly nineteen years that record stood, but onSaturday last that coon-named horse What-Er-Lou, fiveyears old, sired by White, a son of imp. King Ban andHegiaz, by Waverly, and
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