. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. It begins to look aa if there would be no meeting at the Empire City track after all. Phil J. Dwjer has refused to run it unless tbe executors of the Clark estate put up a guar- antee of $25,000. The Jockey Club will hlso require this guarantee before allowing the meeliDg to be held. P. J. Dwyer has offered $400,000 for the p operty, but the offer was rejected. Gravesend and Aqueduct will probably get the dates originally allotted tbe Empire City track. Some prominent Philadelphians have applied to the Jockey Club for a license to hold a five days' race meeting
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. It begins to look aa if there would be no meeting at the Empire City track after all. Phil J. Dwjer has refused to run it unless tbe executors of the Clark estate put up a guar- antee of $25,000. The Jockey Club will hlso require this guarantee before allowing the meeliDg to be held. P. J. Dwyer has offered $400,000 for the p operty, but the offer was rejected. Gravesend and Aqueduct will probably get the dates originally allotted tbe Empire City track. Some prominent Philadelphians have applied to the Jockey Club for a license to hold a five days' race meeting at Philadelphia. Amcng the names of the petitioners are Rudolph Ellis, Colonel Edward Morrell and A. J. Cassatt. The names aie a guarantee that the meeting will be a high claBs one, and there is only one trouble in the way. Mem- bers of the Jockey Club believe that the laws of Pennsylvania prohibit a meeting being held in the State, but if the appli- cants can prove that the meeting is legal the license is sure to be granted. Charles Head Smite said laBt week: "It's a 100 to 1 shot that Lieut. Gibson will never race again. Through lack of attention he was allowed to stand on his injured ?ege so long that the tendons were stretched, probably rendering him permanently lame. I go East the first of next week. I will look over the ground theie and see what can be done. I do not blame Trainer Charlie Hughes alone for the condi- tion of my stable, but believe he was too ambitious and gave both Gibson and His Excellency too hard work. If Gibson dies, I will dispose of my stable and never race ; When the Brighton Cup race, at two and a half miles, was established four years ago it it was the intention of act- ing as a check (o the growing tendency of breeding horses for speed rather than endurance. It proved a costly experi- ment for the association the first three yeare, owing to the Bcarcity of horses keyed up to go Bucb a route, but it demonstrated the fact that the
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