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TOO MANY CHEAPER GRADE HORSES Lexington. Ky.. April 1«. — "Pat" Knebelkamp was talking to a group of turfmen in the lobby of a local hotel the other afternoon. "There are," he said, "altogether too many horses of the cheaper grades on the race tracks of the United States today, .-md thev will lie there so long as the racing secretaries offer encouragement to their owners by providing oceunatiou for th»m. I do not mean to lie understood as saving that the owner of the cheap horse ha- no right to exist. Tar from it. but I do say that if there is no occupation for his cheap horse. t!i;u owner will get rid of him and buy one of a iHtter grade and thus do his bit toward elevating the standard of s|K rt." . Knebelkamp exoressed himself as being in favor of elimination races so framed I hat the winners thereof would forever lie banished from the turf. Others agreed with him; but it was the consensus of opinion that there is no market for such horses as would be banished and that the associations would be compelled to give tliem away. Judge William 11. Shelley, it will be observed by perusal of the book for the Kentucky Association •■rias meeting, while not denriviug the cheap horses 1 of occupation entirely, has not catered to them. The Cheapest race he has programmed is *500 top , and iM.ttom. If this nace is followed at Louis ville and I.atonia. manv of the culls now being complained of will disappear through the weight of their costliness because of nouproductiveness. *
