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LATONIA AND LOUISVILLE MAY COMBINE The interested ones will know whats doing In fall racing next week says the Cincinnati En quirer By that time the race track owners will have had a session and the Racing Commission will also hold a powwow powwowIt It has Iwen umfcrstood that the Latonia man ¬ agement well thats going a bit too far for the management oC this popular course reticrves the right to change its policy at any moment Its letter to say that it lias been said that the La touia management will not accept dates from the Racing Commission with a nurlinutiiel attachment Jf the commission insists it may follow Hint the courts will get a chance to determine just what tun rights of the race courses duly chartered by the state oC Kentucky arc arcIt It is a sad state of affairs and some opine that it will end in the passing of prohibitory legislation rigainst betting on horse races racesA A dispatch to the same paper from New York seems to have a ring of inspiration and indicates a combination against pariinutucl betting and the Racing Commission by both Latonia and Louisville The parlies influential in both tracks arc in New Ybrlr The dispatch says An effort is being made to have Louisville and Latoniu take the tume standpoint on the wlgerlng question The two tracks at Louisville Churchill Downs and Douglas Part arc under the control of a holding company Capitalized at 000000 Conditions that will not prfiTall again this year made It possible for Louis ¬ ville to make a very small eum of moner with the spring meeting The Racing Commission will be asked for dates and at the same time will be asked to modify its rule regarding Jhe betting end of it If the com ¬ mission declines to allow any other form of bPttlng eictptine the parimutuels the meeting will bf conducted tfith the bookies on the commission eii Jttnea from interfering pending tne final settlement of the quetlou Of authority in the courts The race tracks have no desire to oppose the commission or pUt It out of business but want to know what IJiclr TILTHS arc in the nmtrrt
