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COMMISSION CAUSES INCREASE. From the dispatches sent out of Louisville it was Inferred that the New Louisville lackey club had voluntarily increased the parses at Churchill Downs. Tlie Cincinnati Enquirer of Sunday, however, puts another thee on the matter, as follows: "From now on the race courses in Kentucky must average 00 a race each day. Ten thousand dollar stakes will Bet balance the thing up. but each day stands lor Itself, and If. there are siv races the offerings must equal fandVOOR This Bees after tedaf, and. ac-lotding to the statement of one who know a, wan not done voluntarily by the racing organizations of Kentucky. Peally it is done because the Racing Cotuniissioti of Kentucky made a rule to that effect. Lexington is exempted under a provision that the 9509 average goes onlv where a race course is situated in the vicinity of a city having a aenedatloa of 260.000 or more. It was asked if the Racing Commission had the power to order the race tracks to do this. Legal opinions were handed in to the effect that the Racing Commission was created for the purpose if controlling and improving the sport in Kentucky and that if in its opinion the increas mg ol pulses would help to bring that about it could pass rules governing that point. "It would be no nan surprise if the commit-ion went right along now and tackled the question of the horse-owning bookmaker. While the latter may not be put out of the business entirely, the scope of his operations may become limited. Instead of wiping him out altogether, a compromise set a -ure li.ay be passed whereby the bookmaker is prohibited from making book on a race where one or more of his threes are entered. No book that he is interested in will be allowed to display odds if his horse starts. This will remove a condition which in a large numln r of cases leads to a good deal of scandal. If a bookmaker lavs against his horse and in- is beaten a hue and cry goes up that the horse was Mead. Then, bookmakers get interested in too many horses. The owner gets pinched for money, and the horse is peri in soak to some haekaa, and in many instances is really the sole property of the layer of odds. Everything may he all right, and a horse-owning bookmaker may lie just as much on the square as his confreres, but it doesnt look good, and that is the angle that the public views it from. All of this shows thai the Racing Commission of Kentucky is trying to fulfill the mission it was created for, and if it doesnt succeed it wont be for lack of effort."
