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ASK OWNERS TO CO-OPERATE American Remount Association After Membership Subscriptions at Latonia Track. LATONIA, Ky., October 23. Prior to the racing, officers of the American Remount Association, including Col. Scott, Col. Whitehouse and Magi Stanley Koch, the latter rider of Mile. Denyse, winner of the recent 300 mile endurance test, made known to the horsemen the immense value the thoroughbred horse is to the army and in the production of the necessary type of light cavalry mount. They made a plea for co-operation oh the part of the horsemen to assist in building the Remount Association to national scope. Tltey also made it plain that the Remount Service was wdidly in back of racing, for without racing the thoroughbred industry would languish and the result would be that in five years, there would be a scarcity of cavalry mounts and in twenty years it would leave the army without adequate cavalry. Maj Koch dwelled on what he accomplished in the recent test with a grade thoroughbred and that already the army people are planning to ride full blooded thoroughbreds exclusively in the 300-mile test and have already made preliminary preparations with the horses intended to go, to insure the capturing of all prizes. The horsemen and many of the persons composing the large assembly that heard the talk of the army officers were liberal, with their membership subscriptions. The entire Kentucky Jockey Club directorate took life membership subscriptions, as did many of the owners, including J. O. Keene, A. B. Hancock, J. S. Owenby, G. H. Keene, James Arthur and others.
