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PROPOSED STEEPLECHASE CHANGES New York February 15 The rules committee of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association and tins rules committee of the Hunts Committee will decide at Philadelphia tomorrow whether threeyear olds will IKS permitted to race iu steeplechases In America before October Under existing rules it is not i ermissible for horses under the jurisdiction of this controlling Ixxly of the crosscountry sport to do so before this specified month Iu each year The in ¬ tention of the conference Is to discuss an amendment to tho rule which will permit the threeyearolds to race at an earlier date The published report that such an amendment to tho rules had l een made was erroneous The object of tomorrows conference Is to decide the question Some of the advocates of the projKJsecl amendment to the rules are pleading for the time to be changed to July They point to the fact that threeyearolds race in France during July JulyAnother Another matter to bo discussed by the steeplechase committee is the defining of a bona fide hunter In England a rule was recently passed that to earn a certificate a hunter must be made to take as many jumps as possible In a hunt and must be hunted at least nine times
