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KENTUCKY RACING DATES CLEAR. No Request for the Douglas Park Plant Another Rule Proposed. Lexington, Ky.. September 10. Saturdays meeting of the Racing Commission cleared up several knotty points. The fall meeting of sixteen days of racing at Louisville will be held tit Churchill Downs. It will open October 10. the day following the close at Latonia and will continue until November 2. These dates were alloted to the meeting Saturday, tlie application being presented by Matt J. Winn. There was no request for thirty days at Douglas Park. Recent dispatches from New York to the effect that Louis Cella had decided to insist upon the agreement made last spring before the formation, of the Louisville holding company, were evidently incorrect. All members of the commission attended the meeting. Colonel K. F. Clay has entirely recovered his health. His rule barring owners from making book while their horses are racing, on tracks in the state and prohibiting bookmakers from laying prices when horses owned by them are running, was adopted. A rule prohibiting, a jot-key from riding another .horse4ina. race inwhch Jiisiregjilar ;ipp.loyor.Jiasv. a starter, was nreseiited and laid oyer. It reads as follows: Rule No. 202, "No jockey under contract of employment shall ride for any other than his contract employer in any race where a horse is entered which is owned or trained by the contract employer." VI In the ease of jockey T. Taylor, who was suspended for a bad ride on Barnsdale at Latonia, the secretary was instructed to advise the jockey Hint he shall first seek reinstatement by Judge Hopper, who suspended him, and if refused, he shall then have the right to appeal to the commission. Mr. Charles Grainger,, a member of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, is credited In a dispatch to a local newspaper in relation to the new rule concerning bookmaker-owners, with stating that "all the rule means is that a bookmaker may not make a book on a race In which one of his own horses is a starter." Instead of prohibiting owners, trainers and jockeys from furnishing all or part of the bankroll for a bookmaker, and instead of barring bookmakers from owning and racing horses, the new rule, according to Mr. Graingers explanation of It. simply means that, a bookmaker must turn his slate when he runs one of his own horses. Possibly Mr. Grainger said something like what he Is here alleged to have said, but it is difficult to perceive bow be arrives at such . an interpretation of a rub; which reads: "Any person who owns wholly or in part or is interested directly or indirectly in any book made on races at any meeting which is licensed by this commission, shall not be permitted while being interested in such book tit race, train or ride any horse niton the track so licensed, and for violation of this rule the guilty party shall be ruled off." Probably Mr. Grainger was joking.
