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TEXAS INVITES HORSEMEN No Restrictions Against Race Horses and State Fair at Dallas to Run as Scheduled. DALLAS, Texas, Oct 3. More than 200 race horses, representing a part of the entries for the thirteen-day race meeting at the State Fair of Texas, Dallas, October 11-2G, are enroute and arriving, as the result of a ruling by the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, in connection with the live stock quarantine against South Texas. Following a conference with the board by Secretary W. H. Stratton and Dr. A. E. Flowers, head of the State Fair racing department, telegrams were sent to owners to let their horses come along. There will be no interference with the State Fair racing program from the restrictions of the quarantine, nor Avith any other department of the fair save the live stock division. Dr. Flowers had received requests for stall reservations for more than 250 horses up to October 1 and there had been sixty entries for the four early closing events to that time, with time for others to reach his office "under date of October 1.
