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KENTUCKY RACING DATES. i NO SPRING MEETING TO BE HELD AT DOUGLAS PARK. Season Will Open at Lexinqton, April 27 — Thirty Days Each for Churchill Downs and Latonia. Lexington. Ky., Fehruary 10. — The State Racing Oaaiaateaiaa today bed the dates for spring racing in keulucky and made soon* let ouiinendat ions to the raeteg aseoeiatioaa which argue for the betterment or the ■ ii The Kentucky It.-ioinj; ftaaarlallOB will inaugurate the aeaaaa uiili a aaeetlag of seven days at the local track, hrjiaB teg Saturday. April "7. and end-teg Saturday. May -I. Tins will l e fallowed by thirty days at l.inir. hiM Downs. Louisville, under the aaapieea of the Now Louisville Jockey Utah, beginning Monday. May i. on which date the Ken-tack] Derby will be run. and closing Saturday, .lime S. Tile LaK.nia Jockey llll will oien its Meeting Monday. .Line 10. and continue for thirty daya, closing Saturday July 1".. farther than theee, no datea wove allotte l. Tin? Coinini--.il i sa.s there la aatple time in which to announce the fall datea. The Deaglaa Park Jockey Clab did not ask for spring dates, but did lile an application for thirty daya in the tall. Jadge M. V. Bond aad a. c. Tillos. both of St. Louis, were here rrpirnratlai the Douglas Park Jockey CIuli. Harvey Meyers and James II. Young repreaeated the l.aionia Jockey Crab aud wasted their dates to include Decoratioa Hay. Matt J. Winn and H. . Applegate repreaeated the New Louisvikle Jockey Crab. The commissioners heard what theae repreatntatlvee bad to say and then weni about their deiiberatioaa in executive Btaaloa. After tin- racing dales were bed the Commission adopted tlie following reeolBttoaa: •Ve earnestly reajBeal and urge lipan the racing associations ot Kentucky thai their programs ■hall not have more than two selling laces each day, one for two-year-olds and the other for three-year-olds and upward, except when one or both races are split. ■ We further request that the purst»s offered by the racing aaaorlitionn of Kentucky, with the exception f Lexington, be increased aa as to average ."f..iM* each day. "We recommend a strict enforcement of the rule against the adminiatration of drugs to horses. "We earaeatly recommond thai no betting agenta or commissioners be allowed in the grandstands of any racing association in the state to solicit n .gets. The Commission had received a letter from E. S. Kardner. of t lit- Avondale Stud in Tennessee, sotting forth the plana of the breeders and u m mm ■ in that slate to hold a meeting at Cumberland lark this spring and requesting thai the Kentucky season not be opened during :!"■ laal week in April. The ■ecretarj was Instructed to advise Mr. Gardner of the action of the committee and to express regret Hi:, i eonditions in this state would not peratil of i he opening oi he season later than April ST. Nashville Meetinq to Open April 20. Nashville. Teim.. February Id. tin receipt of in-foranatioa from Lexington to the effect that the lacing season in Kentucky will open April 27, Seere iary J. W. Busswnrm announced thai the Tennes Bee Breeders meeting al Cumberland Park vill be gin Saturday. April HO. and close Saturday. April •_7. Nashville wauu-d the datea that were allotted to Lexington.
