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KENTUCKY REPRESENTATIVES AT ALBANY. Lexington. Ky.. February- 15. — Major Philip P. Johnston. Colonel Milton Young and Colonel John R. Allen have been selected to represent the breeding interests of Kentucky at the hearing of the Hart-Agnew bill before the joint Codes Committees of the New York legislature at Albany nexr Wed-ncMlay. and they will leave for Albany Monday. Major Johnston, in addition to being president of the National Trotting Association, is the proprietor of Montrose Farm, where he maintains both a thoroughbred and trotting stud. Colonel Young is the proprietor of McGrathiana Stud, which em braeea 2 ihhi aerea of land and about 500 thoronah-I reels. Colonel Allen is probably the most distinguished barrister of this section, and is the dark horse in tl ontest for the Cnited Stales senator-ship now on in the legislature at Frankfort. He is a sportsman born and thoroughly in sympathy with the s|M rt of racing, although he is not a breeder or owner of horses. The selection gives entire satisfaction, and the breeders know tiny will be ably represented at the hearing. They believe that flic statements to he made by theee gentlemen will go a long way in I he direction of defeating the bill which pn»posps to repeal the Percy-Gray law.
