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KENTUCKY DATES SETTLED NEW LOUISVILLE JOCKEY CLUB AND LATONIA JOCKEY CLUB REACH UNDERSTANDING. Spring and Summer Meetings on Kentucky Circuit to Occupy Sixty-Six Days Kentucky Commission to Meet Tuesday to Formally Assign Dates. Lexington, Ky.. February IS. Advices received lien- are to llie effect that the officers of the New Louisville Jockey Club and the Latonia Jockey Club have? come to an understanding with reference to spring racing dates, and that the Latonia Jockey Club will present, an amended application for the consideration of 1 lie Kentucky State Racing Commission at its meeting here next Tuesday. Louisvilles application was for twenty-tive days, leginning Saturday. .May i: and ending; Saturday. June 10. According to information that has been received here l.ouisvillos application Is to stand as originally made and 1-atonia is to ask for thirty days, beginning Monday. June 12, and ending Saturday, July l."i. Latonia originally applied for thirty-one days, beginning May ."0. These dates, it is understood, will he granted, making a total of sixty-six days racing for the three Kentucky tracks. Lexington has already been granted eleven days, April 29 to May 11. The commission, it is said, will take up for final action Tuesday the rule introduced by Col. Milton Young last fall requiring that no stake of guaranteed value be for less than 52,000. The track owners are opposed to the passage of any such rule, while horse owners and trainers are naturally in favor of it. The ten stakes announced by the New Louisville Jockey Club to close March 1 are all of lixed value six of them ,500 and four ,500. The Latonia Jockey Club announces to close on the same date seven guaranteed stakes, one for ,000 and six for ,000." There has boon no announcement from the track managers as yet concerning the probable value of the purses at the spring meetings, but it is understood to be the desire of i the Kentucky State Racing Commission that no purse lie of loss value than 00. There will be no change- in the commission on pari-mutuels and auction pools, it is said. After all the agitation over this matter, growing out of the request of a committee from the Kentucky Association directorate that they be permitted to ohargo seven per cent, last spring, it appears that the track people are satisfied that the request was a mistake and that they are more than willing to let the matter rest as It is live per cent, commission and the breaks, which are estimated to be equivalent to virtually one per cent. inre. It is the hope of Secretary Bidwell that all ponding rules and amendments will he disposed of at Tuesdays meeting. lie is particularly anxious to prepare and have published in convenient form the rules of racing for general distribution among the horsemen at the spring meetings. It is probable that the case of IT. Guy Bed well, who was ruled off with his big stable of horses at Latonia last summer, will come up for discussion again Tuesday. Since the last meeting there has been a renewed effort on the part of Mr. Bed well and his friends for reinstatement, if not of the owner, of his horses. This latter can be accomplished only by an amendment to the rule. The horses are now in California, and it is said to bo the desire of Mr. Bedwell to get them reinstated as speedily as possible that they may bo shipped to Juarez "and sold before the end of that meeting, which has been extended to. April 1. A letter received here from California a day or two ago contains the information that Mr. Bedwell made no mis-statement when he wrote the commission that he is "down and ont financially." His horses are all that he has left, it is said, and they are useless to him or anyone else so long as they are under the ban. William Steele, for many years in charge of the thoroughhred horses owned by the late A. J. Cassatt, or Philadelphia, suffered a heavy loss in the stock vards lire here Wednesday night, when all of the buildings and 100 head of horses and mules were dest roved. When Perry Belmont decided to disperse lie stud of thoroughbreds he had at Horse Haven Farm, and sent ElhellK-rt to France, in the winter of l!in.-i!!i!, .Mr. Steele took a lease on the place and maintained his. residence there until the first week in .Tanuarv, when the house caught fire and he was burned out. lie had a short while before made up his mind to go back to Pennsylvania and had rented a place at Devon, the lease on Horse Haven Farm having been transferred to John Nash, to be used as a nurserv for trotters. After sending Nellie BIv dam of Bound the World to John S. Barbees Glen Helen Stud, where she is expected soon to foal to August Belmonts Singleton and then go to the court of Peep oDay. and shipping Banish Girl and Marv Steele to Frank Weir at Jacksonville, Mr. Steele had fourteen horses left, and he sent them to the stock yards to await shipment to Devon. Pa., next Monday." Of these, seven were burned to death. There were two two-year-old thoroughbreds, a colt bv Singleton First Light and a filly by Peep oday -ilergenie; two trotters, a two-year-old filly by Tregantlo Thelma. by King Bene, and a four-year-old colt bv Walnut Hull out of the same mare; two very stylish walk-trot geldings and a roadster. The others were saved. Mr. Steele intends to buy more horses to take the places of those he lost. They were worth alwut ,1,000 and he had no insurance on them. The two-year-old brother to Sheriff Bell, by Ornament Louise, by Botherhill, owned by Robert Promt t or Winchester, and in the stable of James Stevens at the Kentucky Association track, died of pneumonia last night. C. L. Harrisons four-year-old colt. Waldo, winner of the Juvenile. Laureate, Manhanset. Tremont, Flash, Saratoga Special and Flalbush Stakes, entered the stable of Jack Baker at the Kentucky Association course this morning, and it is believed that he will again stand training. This good son of Planides and Salama went wrong last spring when it seemed as if be had the Kentucky Derby at his inerev. and he has since been running out. J. B. Bcspess stallions. Dick Welles and Marathon, are due hero from Cincinnati tomorrow to make the season at John D. Carrs farm, where Mr. Res-pess has a big band of mares.
