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MARYLAND BREEDING PLANS Racing Commission Favors Establishment of State Bureau. BALTIMORE, Md., December 2. The project of establishing a state breeding bureau, with the one mile race tracks as the center, was discussed at a meeting held at the office of the State Racing Commission. Representatives of the four one mile tracks attended. Tlie Idea of the commission is to encourage the breeding of general utility horses through the use of thoroughbred stallions and standard mares, and for this purpose it is proposed to buy as a starter forty standard mares, to be cared for at the tracks. Tlie meeting heard a "prelimniary report submitted by a committee composed of Thomas Clyde, Commissioner E. Clay Timanus, Carlos Do Gar-mendia and George Brown, Jr. This committee made tlie recommendation as to the purchase of the mures anil that the sum of 00,000 should be contributed to the bureau by the four race tracks. After a discussion of tlie project the chairman of tlie commission, Stuart Olivier, appointed a committee to look into the matter further and ru-port at a meeting to be called at some date not yet selected.
