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LATONIA TO FEEL ITS WAY The Kentucky Association has settled on dates for the coming racing season choosing from April 30 to May 7 seven days all told including two Saturdays If this is ratified by the Racing Com ¬ mission Louisville drops in for a twentyfourdays race meeting closing on May 28 That makes it easy for Latonia to begin on the best day of the year Memorial Day How far Latonia will go with Its meeting is not known says the Cincinnati En quircr It has been said that the racing dates ap ¬ plied for will not be so many as in past year as thu management is somewhat dubious of what may hap ¬ pen with the parlmutuels in operation Not one of the men interested in Latonia cares to have thu fiasco of 1008 repeated So this time they will practically feel their way If the meeting runs along two weeks without a big loss another two weeks will be asked for It is just possible that Louisville will content itself with eighteen days and this will let Latonia in a week earlier If this be the case there certainly will be a limited racing sea ¬ son in Kentucky compared with a few years ago when it began about thu first of April and went along without a break until the middle of November It has been stated that Lexington will not havu any purses less than 300 and that will mean tliat the other cities will have to accept that figure as the minimum sum allowed by the commission Louisville will hold a successful meeting Derby Day which falls this year on May 9 gets a lot oC publicity and as there is a great deal of sentiment left in the sport down there the attendance is sure to lie big The animal meeting of the Latonia Jockey Club is ilue in March and after the directors have had their say one will know what is going to be done Just now not so much is promised
