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KENTUCKY DATES ALLOTTED STATE RACING COMMISSION COMPROMISES LOUISVILLE-LATONIA DIFFERENCES. Schedule Adopted Provides For Sixty-Five Days of Racing Some Rules Adopted, Others Laid Over Turf Rulings to Be Respected. Lexington, Ky., February 21. The Kentucky State Racing Commission today allotted dates for spring meetings at Louisville and Latonia, making the Kentucky dates complete as follows: Lexington Saturday, April 20, to Thursday, May 11 eleven days. Louisville Saturday, May 13, to Thursday, June S twenty-three days. Latonia Saturday, June 10, to Saturday, July 15 thirty-one days. The Kentucky Derby will be run May 13 and the Latonia Derby June 10. President Charles F. Grainger of the New Louisville Jockey Club was before the commission fo urge the allottment of the full twenty-five days requested. IresideiU Harvey Meyers of the Latonia Jockey Club also addressed the commission. The two days were taken from Louisville and given to Latonia in order that the latter meeting could open on Saturday and in recompense for the loss of Decoration Day, which is always a big day at Cincinnati. The commission adopted rules requiring the presence of a veterinary service, under control of the commission and paid by the racing associations, at the track on each racing day; requiring that pose positions and throw-outs in purse races be determined by lot: preventing the entry of any mortgaged horse in a race without written consent of the mortgagee. The following, proposed as amendments to the rules, are to lay over the required thirty days: That no guaranteed stakes shall be given after the spring meetings of 1011; preventing fx-audulent claiming in selling races; preventing the bogus transfer of a horse to get the benefit of the services and allowances of a good apprentice rider. ..There was no second to a motion to pass a rule nxlngthcamount of pnrses according to the population of the cities near which the race tracks aro located.- The secretary was instructed to catalogue all rulings against persons for fraud in 1010 on all tracks of the country and to bear in mind that none, now under banishment are to have the privileges of the Kentucky tracks this year. The case of H. G. Bedwell was again discussed, but without action. The commission adjourned subject to the fall of Chairman Clay.
