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LATONIA BETTING MATTER UNSETTLED The matter of what is to be done over betting at the Latonia fall meeting from October 10 to November 14 is now up to the racing association says the Enquirer While nothing official has boen announced it is on the tab to give the com ¬ mission a wrestle in the courts of the state before accepting the dictum of the aforesaid commission as to what is right or wrong on the betting ques ¬ tion This is liable to come up at Louisville and most likely will for it is a certainty that a meet ¬ ing at Louisville with parimutuel betting is a sure bloomer bloomerOne One of the points advanced Is that the commis ¬ sion lias full charge of the racing In Kentucky its conduct while in operation and its duration Betting is something apart from racing and has always been considered so by all turf governing bodies An ¬ other one is that the racing organizations pay a special franchise tax for the privileges granted them for poolselling and this law antedates the one creating ih6 commission and was not repealed when the other was passed and consequently is still in force forceEvery Every one interested in the sport hates to see it dragged into the courts of law but under the conditions one could hardly blame the race track owners for that The commission has not played fair in this matter There are many other things though that are not just what they should be and which the commission could take in hand and remedy but these have been scientifically evaded
