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PASSPORT QUESTION SETTLED Arrangements Are Made for Ship ¬ ping Horses to Cuba Same Conditions as Last Year YearWill Will Prevail No Change Changein in Racing Rules i Cincinnati O November 2 AVhalevcr fears had IMCII entertained among American horsemen who have been planning to ship their stables ta Cuba during the bitter part of this mouth for the pur posV of participating in tin winter meeting at Ori ¬ ental Park to begin on Thanksgiving day November 2 that the obtaining f passports might intcrposi in obstacle to their plans was dissipated today by ill announcement from II D Brown general man ¬ ager of the club that the State Department at Washington has completed arrangements for tin issuing of the necessary passports under an agree ¬ ment with the manag cut of the Jockey Glut milir to that under which American horsemen ver permitted to make the trip to Cuba last year lanagor Brown sent word that he would arrive her on Sunday to confer with horsemen who art contemplating tun shipment ut their stables to Cuba for I lift winter The work of preparing applications for passports will be Ixgun at once onceThr Thr receiitjannoHnceniont of the addition of Win il 5JnH v to the official racing staff of the Cuim American Jockey Club was pleasing news to i tin horsemen here in Kentucky where Judge Shelley iias officiated at the different t nicks for many years Judge Shelley will the presiding judge and together with Presiding Steward C J Fitz Gerald and Kacing Secretary Martin Nuthansou will form the Ixiard of handicapi ers Tin other officials include C II Lansdalc associate steward starter Jnmes 3Iilton clerk of the course IMwanl Jasper paddock judge W W Lyles anil veterinarian Dr F W Ashe AsheAll All of the men named an racing officials of long experience rnd of the highest efficiency in theii respective departments C J Fitz Gerald has filled in his long career on the turf practically very position connected with the racinir of horses and has of late been making for himself an en ¬ viable record as one of the most painstaking and fficient presiding officials in America He is an specially effective disciplinarian a stickler for HMIII racing and the terror of that bane of racing in some localities the rough rider riderOFFICIALS OFFICIALS OF HIGH STANDING STANDINGOther Other members of Oriental Parks official family who are recognized throughout the turf world as possessing outstanding ability in their respective spheres of action are Starter Milton and Secretar Niithanson The formers showing at the starting barrier last year was one of the most satisfying features of the Cuban meeting and reports from Maryland where he dispatched the fields at Havre tp Grace and Laurel are to the effect that his work was high class in every resjMct Martin Nathanson won his spurs as a racing secretary long ago agoIt It is announced that the rules which governed the racing at Oriental Park last year will be in vogue again the coming winter season practically without change The splitting of entries and the handicapping will l e done as heretofore by a board of three consisting of the presiding steward the presiding judge and the racing secretary which this year will be C J Fitz Gerald Win Shelley and Martin Nathanson In all races with a selling laiise except selling handicaps apprentice riders will be entitled 10 an allowance of five jKiiinds with the additional provision that until an appren ¬ tice has ridden five winners he will be entitled to an allowance of eight pounds This encourages the development of jockeys Luusford one of the best of the present day riders in this country was developed at Havana last winter under the en ¬ couragement offered by these lil eral apprentice illowances Kay Spcnce who developed Iiins ford has another boy T Murray whom he intends to develop during the coming season of Cuban racing under the same favorable conditions conditionsKntries Kntries are luring received in liberal numbers for the thirteen events which will comprise the strike program for the coming Cuban season seasonInclude Include among the niuiilMr is a halfmile race for twoyearolds now yearlings which will make their racing debut in llHJt In response lo the ac ¬ tion of the Jockey Club in rescinding the rule for ¬ bidding the racing of twoyearolds before April Jhc Cuba American Jockey Club will offer as many races for horses of this age as may be warranted liy the number of twoyearolds in training in Cuba
