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CALIFORNIA RACING BILL IS UP Kenney Measure Has Passed Committee Star Hawk Is Training Soundly SAX FRAXCISCO Cal April 1 There has been an attempt to bring about legislation that will tend to revive racing In California Assemblyman AA J Kenney has introduced a bill for state aid for county fairs There is absolutely no question Hint under the control of the district boards of agriculture county fairs tend to promote improve ¬ ments iii the agricultural productions of the lo ¬ cality where they are held and thereby add vastly to the wealth of the community and state As an educational institution they accomplish much and not least is the social and neighborly spirit that results from such holiday gatherings No county fair is complete without speed contests and Keu neys bill is aimed to promote horse racing in con ¬ junction with the fairs and permit the parimutuel system of betting There is another faction repre ¬ sented at tins legislature that is composed of men of influence and wealth who in the last few years have invested liberally and brought to California some of the finest thoroughbred horses in the world They are alive to the opposition that will be made to any measure that will permit unrestricted bet ¬ ting and believe that the time will come when rac ¬ ing can be revived in California and made iHipular as it is in many places in the east under legislative restrictions that will keep it a clean sport The Ken ¬ ney bill has passed the committee and by the time it conies up the legislature will probably have a better idea of just what each group desires desiresA A K Maeombers Star Hawk by Sunstar Sw etfineli winner of the Lawrence Realiza ¬ tion and Louisville Cup of 191 i appears to have fully recovered his soundness He is still at San Jose and is being given light work and shows every evidence of being able to stand training and racing this year It was not Mr Macombers in ¬ tention to race Star Hawk after he went lame but to retire him to the stud However the horse hav ¬ ing recovered he was encouraged to enter him in this years stakes and he will probably be a for ¬ midable HandicapMr contender for the Kentucky Handicap Mr Macomber has leased Klmwood 1ark from Clias T Hoots and has at that establishment twentyeight brood mares and is interested with Mr Renshaw in a number of other brood mares that are Jieiiig quartered at the same place
