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B ii ■ for P ■ the " H p as a " s J"i T d n * C n c: c a r 1 E. t to ■ r b fl b I C I b i f r r t r • t BRADLEY AGAIN PRESIDENT ! ♦ Master of Idle Hour Farm Heads Thoroughbred Horse Assn. — • Honor Conferred for the Fourth Time — Other Officials Elected— Pleased With Victory Over Express Companies. LEXINGTON. Ky., April 28.— E. R. Bradley, master of Idle Hour Stock Farm Stable, the fourth time was last night elected president of the Thoroughbred Horse Association at the annual meeting of members of organization, held at the Phoenix Hotel. Hal Price Headley, master of Beaumont Farm, was named to succeed Arthur B. Hancock, master of Claiborne and Ellerslie Studs, vice president. Thomas B. Cromwell, for the eleventh successive time, was elected secretary-treasurer. Messrs. Desha Breckinridge, T. P. Hayes, Hal Price Headley and Thomas Piatt were re-elected to the board of directors for terms of three years each. The meeting was well attended and the members heard with interest and appreciation the decision in full of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the matter of the number of attendants to be allowed with carload shipments of race horses, which decision was won in a contest between the attorneys of the express companies and the railways, lasting more than a year. Messrs. T. P. Hayes. J. B. Respess and W. Caskey, Jr., were appointed a committee take up with the platers of racehorses at ! j Kentucky tracks the matter of increased j I rates, and if a satisfactory agreement cannot | i be reached to employ experienced platers to shoe the horses of members of the Thoroughbred Association at rates that will be satisfactory to the platers and the owners. : A splendidly executed painting of Bubbling . Over, from the brush of Mrs. E. Leone Zavey Lucas, the gift of members of the Thoroughbred Horse Association who made up a purse for that purpose last fall, was hung in the ; j meeting room and will be presented to Colo- ! ; nel Bradley on his return from New York at - j the end of the week. In the absence of Colo-l " nel Bradley, the chair last night was filled 1 by Mr. Hancock, as vice president. a_ ,
