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IMPORTANT ACTION AT LEXINGTON. Lexington. Ky.. September 11. The semi-annual meeting of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Horse Association heie Saturday night was well attended, president Hal Price Headley being in tin; chair, and all of the directors, witli the exception of A. P.. Hancock, being present. The word Kentucky was dropped from the name, which in future will be "Thoroughbred Horse Association." Secretary Thomas B. Cromwell was directed- to have articles of incorporation so amended. It was further voted that tiie articles of incorporation be amended to do away with proxies, confining the annual election of directors to the members present and voting. Heretofore women were not eligible to membership. The by-laws were so amended to permit the ladies who are interested in the improvement of the thoroughbred horse and the sport of racing to become members. The sentiment in favor of "equal rights" was more than four to one. It was voted that members of the association on after January 1, 1917, will wear a button, to be of gold, to cost not over , and to be furnished at the expense of the association. A committee appointed for the purpose made selection of a design from among a number submitted by competing jewelers. The button will be round and will have a thoroughbred horse head in the center with the name of the association in an enameled circle. Tin; sense .of the meeting was against a conflict in racing dates and against excessive racing at New Orleans or elsewhere, and the directors were instructed to make more certain the meaning of the horsemen than was conveyed in the expression of sentiment at Saratoga. The directors, at a meeting which followed the membership meeting. authorized the president to write a friendly letter to the owners of the City Park track at New Orleans. calling their attention to the danger of a conllict. in dates with tin; Fair Grounds track and declaring this associations disapproval of any movement having a tendency to create strife and cause a loss of ground gained for racing in Louisiana, and advising hint that this association stands ready to aid him in every possible manner in the protection of his track and the upbuilding of the sport of racing at Havana, expressing the hope that he will withdraw any idea he may have, if he has such idea, of racing on conflicting dates at New Orleans or of prolonging racing there to the detriment of the sport. It. was moved and carried that the State Racing Commission be requested to so amend its rules as to prevent what is known as "gyping" in selling races, by specifying that a horse bought or claimed out of a selling race will not be eligible to race in any ownership other than that of the buyer or claimer until sixty days shall have expired. A motion to give protection to owners of losing horses in selling races, similar to that accorded owners of winners, failed to carry. A letter from Dr. Williams of Hopkinsville, Ky., suggesting a permanent sales mart at Saratoga, was directed to be placed before a meeting of the members of this association, who are breeders of thoroughbreds, for their attention; At the directors meeting, the following were admitted to membership: George P. Burke, trainer, Lexington, Ky.; Breckenridge Viley, breeder, Midway, Ky.; J. W. Pinkham, horseman. East Saginaw, Mich.; Olin Johnson, owner. Uniontown, Ky. ; Jack Howard, jockey. San Antonio, Tex.; Younger Alexander, banker, .Lexington, Ky.; Dr. Matthew Gault Piatt, physician, Cleveland, O.; A. L. Denny, horseman, Lexington, Ky.; J. L. McGinnis, owner and trainer. New York; Roscoe Goose, jockey, Louisville. Ky.; Frank Murphy, jockey, Cincinnati, .; Frank Garrett, trainer, Lexington, Ky., and jockeys W. Andress, AV. Taylor and C. Van Dusen, of Lexington, Ky. ; L. Gray, Cincinnati, O.; 1. Stirling, Baltimore, Bd.; George Gaugel, St. Louis, Mo.; AV. Schamehorn and Tyner, Sascatchewan, Canada.
