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SERIES OF TRIAL RACES Proposed by Hawthorne Management to Select Champion to Send Abroad. The Chicago Business Mens Racing Association believes that the International races held In 1923 and 1924 have been beneficial to the sport in this country and, being desirous of fostering cordial relations between the turfmen of England and France and this country, suggests that American horsemen should reciprocate and send an American champion abroad to defend the laurels won in the last two years. With that end in view it has submitted to Major August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club, a plan to select a representative American thoroughbred to invade tho English and French turfs. This plan calls for a series of special races, or elimination tests at weight-for-age to find the horse to be sent abroad. It is proposed to hold these races at Belmont Park, Latonia and Hawthorne and each racing association to add 7,500 for the contest held at its course. Of that sum, ,500 from each association be placed in the hands of Major Belmont as custodian of a fund to defray the epenses of shipping the chosen horse abroad.
