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GELDINGS WORTH CONSIDERATION An American Trainers Ideas About tlio Matter and the Way to Reform In discussing the proposed gelding rule one of the most intelligent trainers in the country writes to Daily Racing Form FormUarring Uarring geldings in some of the most important races in this country works a hardship on owners who have paid large prices for geldings In ¬ stance the case of Billy Kelly Here is a horse for which his owner paid 27500 Now the reform ¬ ers are tolling the owner where he can race his horse Why not come to these reforms gradually Bar geldings if it be considered wise to bar them tt all from the early closing stakes so horsemen will know that gelding their colts will bar them Or if the Jockey Club would pass the rule making it effective two or three years hence it will not be so unfair as breeders and owners can guard igniust the rulo They can say what they pleass ieldings last longer than horses Anyone who will take the trouble to look up the thirty largest winners among the five or sixyearolds anil over can satisfy themselves on that score Where will you find entire horses to duplicate Roamer Old Rosebud and Borrow The rule was not so strongly advocated when Dandelion and Salvator were in their prime
