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TRIPLE CROWN PLAN IS ENLARGED. Douglas Park Management Asks to Be Included in Proposed Novel Kentucky Stake Event. New Yolk. January 10.— Visiting in New Yolk is Johnson N. Camden, im-mlier of the Kentucky State Rai ing Commission, which is in control of racing in that state, and has governed so well the spurt newer before wan in so nourishing a condition there as it now is. Many of the rules adopted by the commission were suggested by Mr. Camden. Whose father whs line United States Senator from West Virginia. For nearly eighteen years Mr. Camden has Carried on a breeding and racing stud in Kentucky. He is the owner of Helios, a first-class geldiug that is llkelv to go to the iKtst favorite for the Kentucky Derby of 1013. Mr. Camden will leave for Bermuda on Saturday in company with his family. Today he spoke of his proposed Triple Crown Stake to Ik- run over the Hacks in Kentucky under the jurisdiction of the commission. Mr. Camdens original suggestion pro viilod for a stake to be raced for at Lexington. Churchill Downs ami i.atonia. at different distances, graded to suit the time of year, and for prizes which the Winners of each race would lind worth coaijiet-ing for: but if no one horse should win all three races in any year one third of the prize money, which would be retained in custody of the Kentucky siate Racing Conuaiaeion and Invested in safe se-i initios, would be added to a foundation stake, which in five years might amount to more than 0,000, and hence would Be the most valuable stake in cxist-• in e on the American continent. ■Since I first conceived the Idea.* said Mr. Cam den. "the management of the Douglas Park track at Louisville has requested me to include that course in the circuit, making four Kentucky tracks at which the stake is to be run. if adopted. In that case I- would change the title from Triple Crown to tin- Quadruple Stake. You understand, of course, that it must bo an exceptional horse that could win the stake at all four tracks, beginning at Lexington in the spring and Concluding possibly at Douglas Park in September. Such a horse would have t i win at a mile and an eighth al Lexington in the spring and poaathtj at two and a half miles at La-touia or Douglas Park In September. He would nave , to take iip penalties if he won at Lexington, and if he won the others of the series and also won the last of them his penalty would lie so high as to stamp him the champion of his year, and hence would be highly desirable, if a stallion, to breed to."
