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TO BUY YEARLINGS BY POOLING POOLINGNew New York October 11 The Piping Rock Club has come forward with another plan to help in the revival of racing as a result of the success of the subscription pony race that has turned out so well At a dinner at the clubhouse last Monday night Thomas Hitchcock Jr proposed that the subscrip ion plan should be applied to the purchase of year ¬ ling thoroughbreds to be trained and raced at Piping Rock RockHis His proposal was that twenty gentlemen should subscribe 1000 each to a fund approximately half of which should be used In the purchase of twenty yearling thoroughbreds the balance of the fund to constitute a purso for which the colts would be raced at Piping Rock as twoyearolds and again as threa yearolds the colts to be purchased by a committee and distributed among tlie subscribers by lot lotTwentyfour Twentyfour of the gentlemen present at once be ¬ came subscribers and the indications are that at least thirty subscriptions will be received The plan was entrusted to a committee consisting of Thomas Hitchcock Joseph E Davis and Paul D Cravath CravathThe The adoption of this plan means that there will be at least thirty gentlemen who are interested in racing for its own sake who will own as many thor ¬ oughbreds to be raced at Piping Rock next year for purses furnished by the subscribers themselves These purses shall aggregate approximately 15000 15000It It is expected that the racing thus afforded will serve as a nucleus for a great deal of racing at Piping Rock Among the subscribers to the new plan are Herbert L Pratt Thomas Hitchcock Ken ¬ neth B Schley Walter T Rosen Mortimer L Schiff F Ambrose Clarke H P Whitney W B Cocks Raymond G Smith Jay F Carlisle two Anton G Hodenpyl Paul D Cravath Frank R Hitchcock Frederick Johnson C G K Billins Allan Pinkerton W R Grace three the Hon John J Graham John T Pratt and Harvey Ladew
