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PARI-MUTUEL FAIREST OF ALL METHODS ■Kentucky baa long been the nursery of the thoroughbred. We inherit - ur Ive for him. It is natural for us to have a pride in his superiority. All America looks to this state for her seed the stallion and the brood mare -just as all Europe looks to England to produce and maintain the highest thoroughbred type. •The thoroughbred refines and improves every kind of horse, giving courage, intelligence and iiual ity to even the .oldest, dullest strains. And so we nie.-t keep the thoroughbred pure and breed only those that show endurance and speed. "How are we to know positively if a horse can go far sad fast. In but cue way. Try him against the best of his own kind. The race course, hon-estlv conducted, ns it is under present conditions in Kentucky, is the acid test. When the best b«TSl wins he pMMaa I ■ i ~- soundness, hi- lung power and his weight carrying qualities. Through many centuries the pure thoroughbred strata, developed ami ascertained ill fierce ei mpetition with the colors up, has been guarded with JealoSM care, the result being the best product that nature and human skill can produce. "The wise huntsman will choose the field trial winner, not the bench -how dog. Why? Rccause he has proved his worth under fire. "Now aa to wagering on the horse. It is the custom in England. Fiance. Spain, and the world over. It is not so much a desire to gamble ns to back ones choice. The fairest of all methods i-the pari-mntucK It prai tically wipes out the big gambler. It does away with the bookmaker, ends the credit -v-tem. under which men overplay theni-selve-. and prevents •welching. because it i- a cash transaction. "Cnless the public is permitted to make a small wager on the horses they will not go to the races. With, ill the public then- can be no revenue and consequently no purses, with the result that the thoroughbred business would die and millions woaM I be lost to the breeders and farmers of Kentucky." John E. Madden in the Thoroughbred Record. *
