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HUNTS COMMITTEE HOLDS MEETING Recognition Granted Twenty -Eight Clubs — Trainers and Riders Licenses Granted. NFW VOBK, V V . February II. At a mtltlna. of the Hauls c.i Ittee of the National Steeplechase ,-md Hunt Association the several committees which acted last year, approximately the same in make up. wen- re-elected, a~ wen- A. Heary Biggins 11. chairman, and F. S. Von St.ul -. viee-ehair-liiau. Both will In- on the executive committee. with Henry V. Bull as the third member and Frank J. F.ryan as the haiulicapper. Application- for certificates .-,- sent Ionian riders w.-re approved lo Edward Brandon Hnrst, a. .1. Davis an 1 William J. Gilh-n. Twenty-nine recognised Hunt clubs applied for recoguitlou, of which twenty-eight Were graated, the exception being the Piedmont Hunt club. This was denied owing to its conalrj now being hunted by the Piedmont -Middle-burg Hunt club, wiih tln-ir consent. The saggesth n tendered by II. A. F.ourne for a subscription race for horses suitable far army mounts on the lines of the Piping Rock subscription pony race of ten years sgo, was accepted and approved. The following committee was appointed t take ever the detail- of arraagiag the subscription. the committee t, hav.- full nearer for the setae lag of horses and srrangbig the races at the several hunt meeting* to be hell during tin- year: II. A. Bourne, Col Btaelej Koch ■■ B. Davis, F. S. Voa Stade and A. Henry Higginson. A letter from J. F. Griffith suggesting maximum and mininiini weights in steeplechase, was approved. Several other SBggCstioas were made for the im-proveninit of she n,-s country sport, all of which were considered aad referred to committees for action. At a sabsequent sseetlag ,,r the stewards of the National Hunt and Steeplechase A-s, ciation. Henry G. Vaaghaa of Boston was elected a member, and Jockeys licenses were granted to F. Preeee, V. Powers. J. Clements. A. Sims. a. Ni.-klaus. V. Keatlag. U. Palmer, s Jay Bash, W. M. Blake and S. Kteveasoa. Trainers licenses were granted c W. 11. Hem J. s. J. Lawh-r. J. T. Kermath, Ernest G. Herder, M. Smart. M. Daly. James V. Healey and J. Owen-. The application for a tiainer- license of W. M. 1 arter a a- denh d. A. lleniN Higglnsos has been aipoinied to represent tin- National steeple, has. and Hunt Asset la-to, n in it- plan lo CO operate With the Arabian Horse Crab of America in srraagiag details for an endurance test lor the l nitc.l Mates Mounted Service Cup. 1,. I..- run next o lol.er between Fort Kth. 111 Allen. Vt.. and Camp Devens, Mass., a di-iiim.- of gnu miles al lie- rate of sixty miles a day. r.seliitiou of approval and co operation with He- plans ,,f hi,. Bemounl Associal oa for anuj ».i- offered and accepted iianaiiimou-ly .
