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SATISFIED WITH PRESENT CONDITIONS. Lexington. Ky December 31. The session of the Kentucky State Racing Commission that was held here last Wednesday was of the star chamber variety, no reporters being, "admitted and the general public being excluded, hut the gist of that which was given out officially by Secretary Bidwell and that which has filtered through the conversation of the members of the commission and the representatives of the racing associations who appeared at the meeting is that the racing associations are satisfied with the racing rules as they are and are opposed to the adoption of any new measures or the amendment of any of the present regulations, particularly such as apply or would apply to pari-muttiel and auction commissions and breaks, the method now in vogue for the calculation of the pay of pnri-mutuel tickets, or the amount of mouey to lie added to purses or given in guaranteed stakes. It seems a foregone conclusion that the iollcy of "let well enough alone" will be applied. Charles T. Patterson, who developed the great horse. Ornament, will open a public training stable at the Kentucky Association track next Monday. Among the horses he will train Is Hart Browns promising colt by St. Lawrence II. Subdue, by Star Ruby. Mr. Patterson is in receipt of a letter from his brother, Kimball Patterson, in which he says he has been breaking and trying out a number of yearlings for F. G. llogan at Santa Anita. Cal., and will leave there in a few days for Juarez with the majority of them. When Kimball Patterson went to Los Angeles last fall it was his intention to engage in the real estate business, but the proposal to continue as a trainer of thoroughbreds appears to have been more alluring. J. B. Respess has twenty-four broodmares at the adjoining farms of John D. Carr and Thomas Piatt and he has arranged to send his stallions Dick Welles and Marathon, now at his Woodlawn Farm in Ohio, back here February 1. The mares are nearly all in foal to Dick AVelles. he having been in service at the Carr farm in 1910. Suspension, the dam of French. Cook, belonging to Col. Milton Young, slipped a lilly foal by Wools-thorpe a few days ago. The percentage of slips in this section this season is small. The weather has been uniformly cold and there has been mueh snow on the ground, and breeders say that the mares have fared much better than when the weather is alternately cold and warm.
