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RENEW ENDURANCE STAKES KENTUCKY STATE RACING COMMISSION TAKES ACTION TO THAT END. t Rule Is Proposed at Meeting- of Commission Designed to Prevent Handbooking on Kentucky Tracks Judge Price Overruled in Joe Deibold Decision. Lexington, Ky., November 18. The Kentucky State Racing Commission at a called meeting today, reversed the decision of Judges Charles F. Price and John B. Dillon in the case of the horse. Joe Dei-bold, authorized the renewal of the Kentucky Endurance Stakes at four miles for 1912 and framed a measure Intended to break up handbooking on licensed race tracks in this state. Vice-Chairmau Milton Young and Messrs. F. A. Dalngerfield and Johnson N. Camden were present. The Joe Deibold case came before the Commission on appeal. Joe Deibold, running In the name of George H. Whitney, finished second In the first raco at Latonia November 9. Among others In that race was Bill Todd, running in the name of C. A. Thornton. L. V. Bellew put in a claim for Joe Deibold. Mr. Whitney refused to give him up on the ground that Mr. Bellew did not appear to have registered his ownership of the horse and tliat therefore he had no right to claim Joe Deibold. On affidavit. Judges Price and Dillon sustained the claiming of the horse. Mr. Whitney appealed the case and the ruling of the commission today reads: "Rule 50 is mandatory, and failure of owner or owners to comply with said rule deprives the horse Bill Todd of any standing in the race. If the Judge of the race had known the facts, he should not have let the horse start, the entry being null and void. Not knowing the facts and the horse having started, if he had won the facts then being known to the judges, they should have deprived him of the race. The horse Bill Todd not having any standing in the race, his owner or part owner can certainly not claim any privilege granted under rule 143. The race to the owner of Bill Todd stands as if said horse had never started. The ruling sustaining the claiming of L. V. Bellew of the horse Joe Deibold, owned by appellant, George H. Whitney, is tkcro- fore set aside and said claim is held of no effect." Mr. Whitney has Joe Doilolrt here. On motion of Major Dalngerfield. Uie commission authorized the renewal of the Kentucky Endurance Stakes, four miles, for 1912. specifying that the conditions shall be the same as those covering race of this year. Including the addition of a. ,000 gold cup by the commission, and with the further stipulation that "the stake shall be run in the fall of 1912 on tho grounds of the association licensed by this, commission adding the most money to tho stake." Sealed bids for the stake will be receivod by tho commission from the various associations up to and including- March 1, 1912. No bid of less than ,000 will be entertained by the commission. The following rule, which is to lay over for thirty days before final action, was offered: "Anyone guilty of making n handbook on tho grounds of any racing association licensed by this commission during any race meeting thereof, shall bo ejected from the grounds, and any owner, trainer, jockey, or other person interested in any horse or horses at said raco meeting, who shall be guilty of betting with or through any snch handbook shall be ejected from the grounds, and tho license of such persons who are licensed by the commission shall be revoked." Secretary Johnston was authorized to prepare tho third biennial report of the commission to the Kentucky Legislature as required by the law. The jury in the second trial of Thomas F. Dolan. for the murder of Patrick Moonoy. this afternoon failed to agree and was dismissed. They stood nine for conviction and three for acquittal. E. R. Bradley is on Dolans bond for 0,000. He will be tried again in January. Major T. J. Carson has leased the three-year-old stallion Trap Rock, a son of Rock Sand! Topiary, from August Belmont, and he will be at tho head of tho DIxiana Stud the coming season. There are now about 325 horses of all ages in training at the Kentucky Association track. At least one-half of them, however, will be shipped to the winter meetings at Charleston and Havana. J. C. Milam, who usually winters here, will be one of the busy ones, at Charleston. He will ship eleven head of yearlings and five older horses. Walter Grater, another who has not raced during the- winter in recent years, is planning to go to Charleston. Countless did not come hero with the string of J. W. May. This good handicap horse developed an osselct and is to run out all winter at the; farm of his owner. John G. Greener, near Nashville. Trainer May expects to take him up in the spring. Cherry ola la another good racer that is to rest this wlntef. George Miller, who left New York today for Budapest with a eousignment of mares and foals from J. B. Hnggins Elmendorf Farm, will bring back a number of Shire horses that John Mackey is now buying in Englaud.
