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j i 1 I • ■ i : I ; i I 1 ! i I 1 i [ • ■ I ■ I ■ i I OPPOSED TO KENTUCKY LICENSE BILL - • Hor-eir.en See Menace to the Sport in Terms of Measure Passed by Lower House. LEIXGTOX, Ky. Pebruary Js Holding that nn- - der the second section of the race track license bill 1 which is regarded a- an administration measure e ami which yesterday passed the lower bouse of the general assembly, the state Kaeing Commission Would be deprived of power to determine the amount t of money to be added to purses and stakes, which I: ii now ha-. Messrs. Thomas C. McDowell and .1 ii. Keene. respectively president and vice-president t of the Thoroughbred Harm Association, and mem hers of the state Racing nmnii-inn. have requested i overnor Bdwin P. Morrou to secure an amendment t 1 ■ the measure or not approve it. The second nectlou el the bill reads as follows; ••It shall be the dutj of every person, firm, as-..- ciation ..r corporation engdged in the business ,.r f conducting a race track, to determine, fix. announce , and publish, led lea* than thirty days before tin c commencement of any such race meeting, the num- b. r, value and amount of all parses and prizes t :, , be offered by such person, firm or corporatloo ■ ai such race meeting Ihe remainder of the section is a requirement t that the sj.oiMt nail license be paid to the B an , Auditor r before December 1 of eac.i year. A- un.i r-i 1 bj horsemen, the bill transfers from u the state Racing Commission t. the management of t ihe Kentucky Joekej club, which now own- all the , tracks in Kentucky, operating under ihe camnii* -ion- -auction, the right to -ay what Ihe stakes s and purses -hill be. H i- further contended bj , horsemen that, thus empowered, the Kentucky .lock . y Club could, if i desired to do so. cut the added money to stakes and purse* to such an ex i.nt that tin- owner- .1 the lior-c- would pay all ii or virtually all of the daily license lax and the stai. ■ Racing Commission would be without power to * •-;.,!, what in Unit Instance, would amount to p-i - pression.
