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PRESENT LATONIA HEETING THE BEST YET The Cincinnati Enquirer makes the following com nient on conditions at Latonia LatoniaThis This week winds it up at Latonia With the running of the last race on Wednesday the spring incetiug at the Kentucky track comes to an end It certainly has been a whopper and It racing Is going back it is not manifest at this meeting There has been enough said before concerning this racing season and it would be superfluous to say any more The Cincinnati Trophy is the only big race left undecided and this will come up on the last day All the track management the spec tators and the horsemen now ask is for a fast track on this day for It will decide the twoyearold championship Helios Hawthorn Hobnob and a i number of other good ones will meet There have been good meetings at Latonia but no one can point to a better one than came off this year Every ¬ thing lias had class to it from the horses to the people in attendance The meeting certainly demon ¬ strates that the wave of reform which swept the country a few years ago and made racing practically a dead issue has spent its force and every one con nected with the sport expects that it will shortly be revived If It is revived In the restricted states the parimutncl system of betting will be installed It is goodnight plungers who want the books on I again for their day has certainly come A predlc tion Is made right here that if any of the closed places open up It will be with the mutucl system of betting no matter who objects to it It is the only method of betting that the people will tolerate In two ream every track in the United States and Can ¬ ada will have the mutuels on and the bookmakers who were good fellows In their day will have passed out of existence The bookmaker of recent years was a joke compared with the bookmaker of a decade ago and when the racing powers eliminated them they did a senIce not only to the public but to tUe bookmakers themselves Another lesson learned is that a short meeting will get the crowds the horses and the money just as well as a long one will The racing commission which supervises racing in Ken tucks1 has made several good moves In the last few rears and it Is hoped will keep up the good work
