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TIJUANA HORSEMEN DOING THEIR PART LEXINGTON Ky March 19 Nothing has been said about it in the dispatches from San Diego but readers of Daily Kaciug Form doubtless have observed that the horsemen at Tijuana are carry ¬ ing their proportion of the burden occasioned by the increase in charges for viseing passports im ¬ posed by Mexican officials The horsemen prior to the suspension of racing were getting a total of 3700 daily in added money to seven races on days when there were no stakes and more on stake days When the representative of the Mexi ¬ can government arrived at San Diego from Mexico City it developed that he was agreeable to a re ¬ duction from the prices that had been held by the Lower California Jockey Club to be excessive So it was disclosed that it was possible to resume racing if all parties would come into an agreement to take off something The horsemen through Messrs II W Hoag K E Major and C B Irwiu Tijuana committee for the Thoroughbred Horse Association agreed to a reduction in added money on days other than stake ilays to an aggregate of 2000 for seven races the lowest purse to be 100 and the stakes to remain as advertised unless it should become absolutely necessary for the association to make a change It further was agreed that if the passports are done away witli action at Washington the association will re ¬ store purses to their former value valueAfter After this conference it was announced that racing would be resumed as it was on March IS the Tijuana Jockey Club reducing its admission charges to 1 for men and women on week days 1 for women and for men on Sundays and holidays The vise charges now are 1 for a one day passport 2 for n tenday passport and 10 for a permanent passport The part of the load that the horsemen ar carrying for the benefit of the Mexican officials represents SSOO per day and if the meeting is to continue the announced 125 days without a change in the passport situation the total decrease in distribution to horsemen will amount to 30800 This is but another illustra ¬ tion of the truth that the horsemen still are as heretofore willing to do their part to relieve any situation
