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MOVE TO INCREASE llJISES KENTUCKY STATE RACING COMMISSION MEETS AND HEARS PETITIONERS. Amendment to the Rules Proposed Which Provides for Minimum Purse of 00 and Is to Be Acted Upon at Meeting to Be Held March 10. Lexington K.v.. Frlwnaiy o chairman Milton Young and Messrs. Chaaiea F. Grahager and Thocaaa Man Talbotl formed a main na* of tin- Kentnekjr Stat.- Racing Commission at a meeting held here today. Mr. Taliiotf appeared before a notary public, took the con-tiiutiotial oath of otlice. and was elected vice-chairman in. place of the late Major Daiagerheld, to succeed whom he was appointed b] Got, McCieary. A cunpany of breeder-, owners and trainers of running horses, headed by Messrs. Fred A. For--vtlie of llarriMlsliiirg and Ihomas P. Hayes of this •ily. presented a petition, numerously -ign. l bj Kin tiiilv horsemen, asking for an increase in added money stak.s and purses on The licensed tracks of this slate. After Messrs. Iorsv t „•• and Haves had been heard, it was moved that rule 13 be amended. so that the minimum money to be added to ear stake ,il tie- Louisville or Latoaia tracks aaall be 2.000 and to am parse S; s and tin- minimum to be added to any stake at Lexington ,000 and to any purse 380. This represents a raise of »x» on purses at Louisville and Latoaia, and at Lexington. Here tofore flute ha- been no minimum amount provided for stake-. This ameodateal i- t.. be acted upon at a meeting of lb commission on March in and tie. various racing aaaocintlona will be given ample opportunity lo be heard npoa the -ubject. At the suggesti if T. P. Hayes, a new rule living fee- to j.,eke.vs in all races worth or I--to the winning hone at for a losing mount anil ."i for a winning mount, and in all other races iinliss there be an agreement. 0 for a losing and hB0 for a winning 111..1111I was proposed. Ibis al will Ii.- ..vcr for thirty days. Action upon applications from gsaoeiationa for licenses and racing date- wa- deferred until Much I". The report of W. II Lamb-man. supervisor of |si pai i mittucl- wa- received and tiled and Mr. I.aude man wa- reappoint d for his year at a salarv of $;;o |K-t nay. The petiti f E. It. Bradley that tin- authority of the starter to punish jockeys by tines and su-. pensions he soup what curbed by making him am -liable to ami his acts subject to review by the presiding Judge, was received and filed. A rule requiring that •■the owner or his ran tentative -hall is- responsible for the weight his horns carries in any race" was offered, as was ahm on.. requiring that where a race is declared "IT I ho substitute race shall have tlie sann- amount added.
