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COLORADO RACING PLANS RECENTLY APPOINTED STATE RACING COMMISSION TO ORGANIZE NEXT MONTH. June Meeting Proposed for Overland Park, at Denver, to Be Followed by Short Mixed Meetings in Other Sections of State. Denver, Colo., December 22. Racing in Colorado is due for one of the most interesting seasons on record in 1!I14. Tin- new state rating commission appointed by Coventor H. M. Amnions will meet at the state lions? on Friday, January 10, for organization. Tlie selection of a secretary and a dis-russiun of any business which may he brought lormally bo fore the body is the program. Tile chief business, it was declared today by the commission, will ha the discussion of plans for a spring meeting here. Coventor Amnions is heartily in favor of a race meeting in the spring, as is every member of the commission. There are twenty-one tracks in Colorado, all of them being half-mile course:; except Overland Park, In this city. They will all hold mixed meetings, that is, programs in which both harness and running horses will have appropriate places. No conflict of dates will be possible under the jurisdiction of the commission. The season will start at Overland Park in June, as was customary in past years, and will continue through the fall fair season in northern Colorado. The meetings will be short. From thirteen to nineteen days is the limit that can be allotted to Denver. Tills length of meeting lias been the one which lias proved most satisfactory in the past, both to promoters and to the business interests of the city. The licenses will provide for and specify the exact dates, thereby furnishing a complete schedule for the guidance of horsemen. The racing bill appointing the commission was worked for and had the approval of every horseman in the state. It lifers encouragement to owners, it will stimulate competition, will make racing more profitable to the horse owners and guarantee authoritative control, whereas, in past, lacing was everybodys and consequently nobodys particular concern.
