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HOSTILE LEGISLATION NOT TO BE FEARED. Manager Bcrryman Says Kentucky Legislature Will Reject Anti-Racing Measures. Charles 11. Rcrryuiau. manager of Mr. llaggins Klnieiidorf Stud, has l een in New York arranging with Mr. Haggiu lor the breeding this year of the fine illations at Llmendorf and. asked about a bill Introduced iu the Kentueky legislature, which, if mtnlc a law. would destroy raring in that state. %, said: "There is not a chance of such a bill passing. The breeding of thoroughbreds is the biggest in dustry in Kentueky and the ] pie would not for one moment stand for any legislative measure cal ciliated to curtail or embarrass racing, upon which its continued prosperity depends. The county from whieh ihe senator who iutrodiiei d this ami-racing bill hails, is not a thoroughbred county. It has never produced a race horse of note and I do not believe its people understand the harm thai would result to the whole commonwealth thr Migh the curtailment of even such modest betting as we have at our state tracks. •"The, new governor will not. I believe, interfere with the commission except to place it as far as aaaethlc outside the influence of partisan polities. No man realizes belter lhan he thai raeing in Ken-lucky b not a matter of partisan politics. It is an interest which concerns the prosperity of the whole toniUioiiwealtli and all tlie people."
