Favor Reduction In Fall Schedule: Majority of Kentucky Racing Commission Declare Themselves for Curtailment of Autumn Season., Daily Racing Form, 1918-07-21

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FAVOR REDUCTION IN FALL SCHEDULE Majority of Kentucky Racing Commission Declare Themselves for Curtailment of Autumn Season Lexington Ky July 20 The Kentucky State Racing Commission has not voiced its intention rel ¬ ative to dates for fall meetings at Lexington Louisville and Latonia but it is quite reliably re ¬ ported that the majority of its members have de ¬ clared themselves in favor of curtailment to at most five weeks and possibly four weeks at the three points It is further said that owners of race tracks have been advised of this sentiment within the commission and that they have been given to understand that every day in the future in Ken ¬ tucky shall IK a feature day with generally larger purse distribution to horse owners It is stated to l e likely that there will be no meeting at Douglas Park the only racing in Louisville being six days at Churchill Downs DownsThe The first yearlings hereabouts to have been taken up and broken are those of E R Bradley at Idle Hour Farm They an1 in charge of Dick Thomp ¬ son sixteen of them Mr Bradley sold the bay filly by Black Toney Lady Colonist and the bay filly by Cunard Masks and Faces to Pat ONeil local horseshoer horseshoerHoward Howard Williams arrived here last night from New York to take up and break sixteen yearlings for James W McClelland These youngsters were purchased privately during the early spring They will get their first lesson at the Kentucky Associa ¬ tion course where J C Milam Howard Oots and Jack Baker each have taken a trio of youngsters into their barns since the close of the Latonia meet ¬ ing ingGOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT STALLIONS AT LEXINGTON LEXINGTONSeven Seven of the stallions accepted by Major Straw bridge ind his party for the Government Breeding Bureau are being assembled at the Kentucky Asso ¬ ciation course to IK ktit at James P Ross sfcible until they are ordered to their destination which probably will l e a much in Oklahoma They an KI burne presented by the Thoroughbred Horse As ¬ sociation Fcrole presentd by Major August Rel mont Desmonds Day presented by E R Bradley Serf Savin presented by Thomas C McDowell Dr Boots presented by Walter O Pirmer and Ed Luce and RolxTt K purchased by bureau officials officialsThe The following five yearlings owned by Col W E Applcgate were this week shipped to Louisville to be broken Brown colt halfbrother to Batter Cake by Helmet Macaroon brown colt by Black Toney Naulahka chestnut filly sister to Helen Atkin by Jack Atkin HeUne chestnut colt brother to Belle Rolnrts by Master Robert Chestnut Belle and bay colt by Marathon Maid of Fortune dam of Viley and Lost Fortune FortuneJ J O KIHMIO today stated that he had decided not to offer the Keenelaiid Stud yearlings for sale at Saratoga in August as he originally intended


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