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KENTUCKY RACING ATTACKED • * Bill Before Legislature to Prohibit Operation of Pari-Mutuels. Man o Wars Owner Visits Lexington — A. B. Hancock Big Buyer at Madden Sale. ♦ T.F.XINCTOX. Ky.. February S. — representative horsemen, breeder* and iwam of thoroughbred* :i!ul trotter* alike xxill ;: • to Frankfort next Tm-day afternoon t be heart :it two oclock by the ■ -oTinti i 1 1 «* - on agriculture in opposition to the bill introduced by Senator Sims, of Louisville, far the Churchmen* Federal ion of Louisville designed to destroy raetag ia Kentucky by | ro!iibitias the operation of the part-matarl aysteai of bettta4 The churchmen arete heard yesterday :ift raoea aad they tried :» hare the bills reported favorably without giving the horsemen aad racing latereata aa ep-portunity to b beard, but chainaaa Newtoa Bright told tin 111 ii would be aa aatahr arattdare aad be weald not permit :i vote aa the aaanjthui of ra-porthag the MIL There is no general call in Kentucky for the elimination of 1 he pari -niutuei ayatcm; the apaoat-tion is from reformers entirely. Their uin» is i.i close the race 1 nicks. The same group is framing J legislation to close motion picture theater* on sun-dog and they aloe are striking at the tobacco trowing industry. I heir first move twin;; made la tax it. ill mix is of the legislature are be in; entertained here tonight with .1 dinner by flic board of commorce and they arc hearing what tie- people of the great horse breedlag section think aliout the latest effort of Louisville reformers to kill the horse industry, which is so vital ta the welfare of all nations, as was demonstrated hi the world •war. Without III II lag there will lie ao racing, and without racing there will lie no llioroiijihlired and standard hied horses in America. Mi. and .Mrs. s. It. Riddle of Glen Kiddle. Pa., who hare the distinction of owning Man o War. the of IMP, well a champion two -year -old as as number of other high-class tbefsjuaMaruda, are in 1. xlagtoa to see a naaaber of aauea they own and to arraaav. for their mating dariag the euaahsg aea--i n. The s brood mares purchased hy Thonias B. it unwell :,i the John E. Madden tale were for the account of Arthur 1.. Hancock, OCaer of Ellerslie ;.:.t! Claiborne studs, who was prevented from al Iradlag the sale liecause of the death of his brother Robert, Which oi curled at Memphi- Monday, and whose remains were interred al Charlottesville, Va.. t. iJsy. trainer Charles H. Hughes, who i- hi re for a lew days on buaiaess far .lames V. McClelland. says Lis employer has some likely prospects among Its twenty. -even yearliaaa he is training at Havre .! tiraee, lid. "We nave not transferred the retribute to the hip new ham," said trainer Hughes, because they arc dafapj so well in their pit real i|Uarters and we do not want to take any chances that might come with such a change until tin- arrival of goad weather."
