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GOOD WORD FOR KENTUCKY RACING Commenting on the success of the Churchill Downs meeting the Cincinnati Enquirer says Ibis saysIbis has been the greatest meeting ever given at I ouisville likewise one of the shortest More Bioney has been bet greater crowds have Iwen on hand and finer race horses have performed this spring at the Downs than at any previous time If the turf is on thc decline elsewhere it certainly is booming In old Kentucky Fanatical legislators may have put crimps In the sport In other states but Kentucky look lime by the forelock passed the necessary legislation lo oversee the sport and fliminatcd the bookmakers Consequently racing Is cleaner now in Kentucky than ever before in the 1 thc sport ll1 thls country The allendance at 4rTof tne Downs has been phenomenal Plenty of money n s been in evidence and the tracks five per cent has been a greater amount by far than ever the book ¬ makers paid for Ihe privilege of standing on their blocks and taking the publics money The officials at the Downs admitted this when they raised Ihc purses for all races although they were killing two iiirus with one stone by that action The racing nas been clean and alwve board and not a breath or scandal has l eon beard Charles V Price as a capable racing otlicial and although lie never acts unless he has plenty of provocation woe be to those ° ni ho catches doing wrong wrongThe The great meeting at the Downs is only a fore ¬ runner of what will take place at Latonia during the nest four weeks The Latonia Jockey Club is ixjund to have the banner year If Its whole existence lo begin with the people of Cincinnati realize what great sport horse racing is when it Is conducted properly and secondly there Is plenty of money around Cincinnati The dates this spring are far better than any Latonia has had in thc past few years and this will be a big help Last year it was hot as blazes during the greater part of the spring meeting and in July it was so sweltering that persons would rather slay at home than to go out in the terriUc heat This year thc meeting will escape the greater part of the hot spell
