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NOT MORE THAN 120 DAYS, THEY SAY. Expected That the Commission Will Cut Off About Two Months in Kentucky.. Lexington. Ky.. l--.-hru.iry 0.--H is understood that the State Pacing Commission has arrived at the conclusion that there should not be more than P-o days of racing in Kentucky this year. This means a reduction of Hfty-six days as compared with last year. In 1906 the Kentucky season opened wit li a meeting of eight days at tbe local track. This was followed by tweiitj -four days at Churchill Downs. Then came the l.aloni.i meeting of thirty one days, as originally scheduled, followed by an etensi.m of. ■ lilty-one days. The scene shifted back to Louisville, where Douglas Park had eighteen iaj s and Churchill Downs the same number, with the Kentucky Stale Fair sandwiching in with six days, the season ending With tweiity-foiu- days at Lalouia, waking a total oT 17G days. That the track owners will hold out lor more than 120 days when the commission Meets next Saturday to allot the dales is practically certain, but it is not believed that the commissi. mm will give over. Chairman Chinn in discussing the situation last night said: "It is not horse racing which has produced all of this agitation la other states and neither is it betting. It is the aeatbneal of the pabUe against the methods under which the racetracks are eon ducted. All of the trouble that has come up in the west is the result of contention between a lot of cheap gamblers wiio do not care for turfmen nor breeders and have no interest in racing as a aport. That condition of affairs has passe, n Kentucky, and in the fulure the racing of thoroughbreds will be controlled by the Baciag Commission, and if the sport is not conducted on a high plane Hie Hack will be closed, not by adverse legislation, but by the Racing CosaaUssfcm. The rnmmhwJoa, too. will see to it that racing is not overdone in thia etate. It will Ignore the American Tun Association and the Western Jockey Club and govern racing under the power it has by law." Colonel l". r. Clay iadorsed this opinion of colonel chinn. and is ,mo of tin- strongest advocates on the Commission for reduced lacing dates. |£x .Mayor Charles Grainger, of Louisville, is another member of the commission that advocates limited racing. Messrs. Young and dee Cognets have made no expression publicly.
