. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. VoL XXXin. No. 16. NO. 22& GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22,1898. GOOD PRICES FOR THOROUGHBREDS. New York Racing Laws Have Done Much to Elevate the Sport There. The New York law which governs racing in that State has placed the sport on a higher plane there than it has ever enjoyed heretofore. It has taken racing out of the hands of gamblers and placed it under control of those who love the sport for its own sake. When such men as W. C. Whitney, the Vanderbilts, James Gordon Bennett, Lawrence Kip, A. H. and D. H. Morris, J. H. Alexander and
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. VoL XXXin. No. 16. NO. 22& GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22,1898. GOOD PRICES FOR THOROUGHBREDS. New York Racing Laws Have Done Much to Elevate the Sport There. The New York law which governs racing in that State has placed the sport on a higher plane there than it has ever enjoyed heretofore. It has taken racing out of the hands of gamblers and placed it under control of those who love the sport for its own sake. When such men as W. C. Whitney, the Vanderbilts, James Gordon Bennett, Lawrence Kip, A. H. and D. H. Morris, J. H. Alexander and gentlemen of the same sort who race and breed horses for pleasure and not for the purpose of gambling on them, take charge of racing affairs, the causes for improvement in the condition of turf affairs in New York are not difficult to understand. The result of this making'racing the very highest class sport in New York is the improved prices that are being obtained for horses that are to be raced or used for breeding in the Eastern States. A few days since, imported Med- dler, a stallion belonging to J. Malcolm Forbes, sold for $49,000, and later the mare Tulla Blackburn brought $7,500 and several others over $5,000 each. On Thurs- day of this week at an auction sale in New York the following sales were made : Kentucky Colonel, b c, 2, to A. H. & D. H. Morris, $10,000. Black Venus, blk f, 2, to Sydney Paget, $7,500. King I'.arleycorn, ch c, 2, to Ed Heffner, $7,300. Satin Slipper, b f, 2, to M. F. Dwyor, $4,100. Great Land, ch c, 2, to M. F. Dwyer, $2,600. Rhinelander, b c, 2, to J. "W. Rogers, $3,800. Kinnikinnic, br h, 4, to T. J Healy, $3,000 Sailor King, ch g, to J. J. McCafferty, $4,600. Bannock, ch c, 4, to Ed Hughes, $1 550. Effervescent, b f, 2, to J. S. O'Brien, 2,100. Of course the high prices paid for these youngsters were not given because they could be used for gambling purposes, as gambling can be just as effectually done with a lot of cheap skates aa wi
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