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RECOMMENDATION FOR CLAIMING RACES. Submitted by Thoroughbred Horse Association to Kentucky State Racing Commission for Approval. Lexington. Ky.. April 7.— The Thoroughbred Horse Associations recommendation to the State Racing Commission, it was made known today, is for churning races. The Thoroughbred Horse Associations directors at the meeting on Thursday afternoon, which was attended by several owners and trainers who are not on the board, worked tiieir recommendation into writing and submitted it to the commission at its meeting yesterday afternoon. The Sfcommendation combined features of the rules in use in Canada. New York. Maryland and Kentucky last fall and at Havana. New Orleans and Tijuana during the winter. A clause re.piiring horses to be claimed at least fifteen minutes before the race, was adopted from Tijuana where it gave great satisfaction. It comes nearer meeting with approval of all horsemen than anything yet offered. The state racing commission has this recommendation, together with suggestions from other source-, under advisement. Among suggestions is one sent up from Louisville by nix. ut forty horsemen, but it was stated here this morning by John S. Ward, whose name was tiie first on the petition, that it would be with drawn in favor of the Thoroiiyl.hre.l Horse Associations recommendation, which is as follows: "Ii. claiming races all horses are subject to claim by owners of horses running in the race, or their authorized agents, but for their own account only. A horse claimed shall not be delivered by the original owner until authorization be given by the secretary, and the secretary shall re.iuire the peeper amount to be depositf.l with the claim unless the claimant shall have the ■ r..p.-r amount to his credit with the association. All Claims Must Be in Writing. "All horses may be claimed for the selling pries plus the gross money added by the association to a puis.-,,r stake. Raeb horse shall run for tin- account of the peraoa in whose aaase it starts, bat title t« the claimed hor e shall be vesf.-d in the claimant from the time it leaves the paddock for the iH.st. Kvery I -laim must be in writing, sealed and filed with the secretary or . 1. rk of the scales. ;it least fifteen minutes before |M,st time, and if more than one person should enter claims fop the same horse they shall cast lots for priority in the presence of the stewards or judges, .uul one determined by rach lots to have the right of claim shall become the owner ■ if the horse whether it be alive or dead, sound or unsound or injured during the race, or after it. The secretary shall not open the bid nor inform an owner that a claim has been made until after the race is run. No peraoa can claim his own horse nor more than one horse. It" the stewards should be of tl pinion that any person is not claiming for his own account, they shall WSjahn. him to make an affidavit that he ia doing so. and if. upon proof. that he had made a false affidavit, lie shall be ruled iff and prosecuted for perjury. "No bane claim.. I sal of a selling race shall l.e s.d.l or transferred to any one within sixty days of the day it was claimed, except in anothe- selling ..r claiming race, nor shall such hois,- r. main in the same stable or under the care or management of its former owner or trainer." The weather today was bright, but the mile track at the Kentucky Associations grounds had not dried out sufficiently to permit of its use lor wallops. How ver. prospects are that it will be good for Raster morning work and several interesting moves are in prospect. J. W. Fullers Horses Arrive from Tijuana. J. W. Fullers string id a dozen horses from Tttaaaa in charge of trainer Jam. s Hukill and accompanied by jockey Van Base a, will arrive here tomorrow. In the string are Tokay. Ask Her. In jury. Captain Marchmont. Colonel Marchinont. Dorothy Dean. Dixie Marchmont. July Fly. Lazy Ben and a couple of two-year-olds. Jockey W. Crump, who is under contract to K. W. Moon-, arrived this morning from his home at Nashville. J. S. Ward came over from Louisville to arrange for stable room for Franklin. Sedan. Berlin and i eaaaai of twe-year-aMa he will rare here. Norman Ma. farlane, chairman of the Canadian committee of the Thoroughbred Horse Association, left, here tonight for his home in Montreal alter he had seen the horses K. W. Moore is training for him and after he had visited several of the farms. Former Jockey Dale Austin, who is now employed by T. C. McDowell as an exorcise boy. fell down stairs at his home and broke his jawbone. J. O. Keene this morning received a cablegram from Kngland announcing that his valuable mare Bamphile. had foaled a filly by Mar.ovil. She is booked to White Magic and will be brought to this country next summer or fall. Judge William II. Shelley will have out the liook for the Kentucky Associations spring meeting atK.nt Wednesday. Superintendent James I Ross today liegan spring cleaning at the track.
