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1 LIVE EASTERN RACING NEWS. Backers of the proposed nice track at Bougies, Md., will get another chance to appeal for a license and racing dates before the Baltimore County Racing Commission next Tuesday. Representatives of established tracks throughout Maryland are also likely to be present.. Osborne Yellott, conns?! for tho new enterprise, says Bengies wants twenty-one racing days in the spring and fall. It appears that the racing commissions original order did not refuse a license, but merely disapproved of the dates asked. Refusal of the commission to issue a license is subject to review by the court, but its disapproval to grant dates carries no appeal. The proposed rule, which permits claimants to add to the entered selling price of horses will do much to check the operations of friendly claimers, a subterfuge which has been employed by some owner.; for years to the detriment of men who put in legitimate bids. Under the proposed rule the friendly claimant will not be so anxious to help his neighbors when extra money would have to accompany a bid, especially as all extra money reverts to the association to be afterwards distributed. t Horsemen and others, interviewed on tho changes in the Jockey Club racing rules, appear to be well satisfied with thu amendments as offered by the committee and it is more than probable they will be adopted as they stand, or with but slight alterations, when the Jockey . Club next meets to pas upon them. It is probable the eastern scale of weights will be discussed before the spring season and some changes made. Mr. Vosburgh, the official handi-capper, has intimated changes should be made for several years, especially in regard to two-year-olds running with older horses in the autumn season. The horses running in the name of Grant Hugh Browne are partly owned by Mrs. Grant Hugh Browne, who has thirty-five per cent and Mis Dorothy B. Browne, who holds twenty-five per cent. Mr. Browne retains forty per cent. Such are the conditions filed with the Jockey Club. The only criticism on the proposed selling race rules was that the excess money should only be added to selling races and not all overnight events, as the new rule calls for. "It was taken out of selling races," is the argument, "consequently it should go back to selling races." A partnership has been filed between Andrew Miller and Thomas Monahan in two two-year-olds, a colt by Textile Miss Hudson and aSilly by Textile Submarine. G. D. Widener has leased the racing qualities of the two-year-old colt by Phaleron Last Hope front A. J. Joyuer.
