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KENTUCKY IDEA IN FAVOR KEEN INTEREST DISPLAYED IN WORKINGS OF RACING COMMISSION PLAN. Secretary Bidwell of Kentucky Governing Body Busily Engaged in Disseminating Information of Its Operations in Other States, Lexington, Ky., March 2. Secretary AV. K. Bid-well, of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, who lias been in constant communication during the past two mouths with breeders and horsemen in various states and who is in close touch with the profircss of efforts to restore racing in localities where adverse conditions have been prevailing, tinds that breeders of thoroughbreds here arc greatly pleased by the reports that favorable racing legislation, is a near prospect in some of the states. Secretary BldwcJl has sent a great deal of literature bearing upon the operation of the Kentucky law to a dozen or more states and is at present in almost daily communication with the Business Mens League of Hot Springs and members of the Arkansas Legislature, and be believes that before the latter body adjourns in May, the state of Arkansas will enact legislation reviving racing at Hot Springs and making the Vapor City the homo of the sport next winter. Secretary Bidwell believes that Kentucky is blazing the way with its State Ilacing Commission for a general revival of racing in states where it is now under the ban owing to former mismanagement. He asserts that other states are looking upon Kentuckys commission, with the splendid men who compose it, as a model for the fashioning of bodies to bring about a general uplifting of the sport. Mr. Bidwell has had printed and is mailing throughout the country several thousand copies of the report made to the Kentucky State Racing Commission by President Charles P. Grainger, of the New Louisville Jockey Club, who, as a member of tile commission, served as steward at the spring nactiug in 190S. It is a forceful argument in favor of .the pari-mutuel system of betting, and sets forth clearly the elimination of objectionable features in connection with racing.
