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KENTUCKY DATES AND STAKES Frankfort Ky February 0 The State Hacing Commission has allotted to the Kentucky tracks the following dates Lexington daysLouisville April i0 to May 7 seven days daysLatonia Louisville May 1O to iuue 4 twentythree days Latonia June to July tiiirty days daysLatonia Latonia did not make any tight for earlier dates as was expected and friction is avoided All bet ¬ ting parimutiielsThere on Kentucky tracks will be by parimutiiels There were present at the meeting Chairman Clilnn diaries Grainger and Colonel Milton Young Colonel i F Clay and Louis l es Cognets are in Florida Secretary A 15 Bouse was directed by the commission to send out bills to the jockey clubs for two years for the amount due tlie racing com ¬ mission Then seems to have lieen an amicable agreement made for back dues and future assess ¬ ments at tlie rate of 15 i day for each racing day which with other resources will bring in a revenue of 1300 annually enough to Ixfniy the expenses of the commission The trainers and jockeys li cnse f fcs cs were iixed at ll each and apprentices at 1 the commission ordering the valet for tlie jockey abolished In the future tlie jockevs will be waited on from day to day Iiy men appointed by the jockey flub Contracts for mounts must be made by the jockey with the owner or trainer Tlie object of the commission is to elevate racing arid prevent even the shadow of a suspicion on jockeys The commission expects this to be the most delightful and profitable acing year of the last decade There will be no acetrack legislation at this session of the legis ¬ lature latureLouisville Louisville Ky February Following announce ¬ ment of the allotment of twentythree days from May lo to June 4 for its spring meeting the New Louisville Jockey Club made public the list of the sjakes that will lie run during the meeting Three new permanent events of SltlOO added for 1 hive yearolds and over have been added to the old list making six fixed stakes of 1KM added for horses of that class There are also the Kentucky Derby for threeyearolds with a guaranteed value of SCOOI and the Kentucky Oaks for threeyearolds witli a guaranteed value of 250f The stakes for twoyearolds are three in number the added money for each being 1000 The club also an ¬ nounces an increased number of overnight handicaps for the meeting The Kentucky Derby will lie run May 10
