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GOVERNOR STANLEY FAVORS RACING Ssss No Reason Why Sport Should Be Discontinued His Way of Looking at It Lexington Ky July 3 Governor A O Stanley of Kentucky is a man whose principles are well de ¬ fined He is one who has more than ordinary capacity of thought and whose utterances are the re ¬ sult of mature deliberation Therefore weighty Since I the move against the continuance of racing in Ken ¬ tucky Governor Stanley has said that he sees no occasion for the suppression of the sport in this state My attitude toward racing said he is no different from what it has been since the first lay I entered the office of governor unless it should be that I am more heartily for it because of its relations to our war needs needsThe The governors attitude was made plain in his address at a dinner given by the Thoroughbred Horse Association in this city May i at which he said In war the horse is as necessary as the gun A cavalry regiment without the blood of the thoroughbred is of little force Hence it follows that the thoroughbred horse is necessary to the success of the arms of the United States and our allies It is patent that without racing there would be no thoroughbreds so I stand in favor of racing not as an interested member of the horse industry but as a patriot and the champipn of the thor ¬ oughbred horse horseA A year later Governor Stanley said in presenting to jockev Borel a bouquet of flowers immediately after hehad ridden Omar Khayyam to victory in the Kentucky Derby When we Kentuckians go in de ¬ fense of our flag we go mounted upon the greatest creature God ever made except woman the thor ¬ oughbred horse the Kentucky thoroughbred horse We will go mounted upon that noble steed made upon lines that defied the skill of the great Hogarth and drove him to despair Our loved and trusted animal in times of peace becomes in time of war our cavalry horse our artillery horse and our charger The farmers of the land are doing a big share in this war but no man in the fur ¬ rows is doing more to prepare us for the victory which is to follow than is the breeder of the horses that vie for supremacy upon this track to ¬ day
