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BANISH ELEVEN FROM TURF Seven Jockeys and Four Trainers Denied Licenses by Kentucky Racing Commission "Boots" DurnelPs Application Deferred : . LEXINGTON, Ky., April 17. Seven well-known jockeys and four trainers were denied licenses by the Kentucky State Racing Commission at its meeting here last night. The jockeys whose applications were denied included: Jake Heupel, Danny Connelly, Willie Pool, John Ryan, Thomas. J. Luther, Walter S. Lilley and Andy Anderson. The trainers refused were T. M. Botts, George Curd, Chester Frakes and Charles Sloan. The name of C. E. "Boots" Durnell, widely known horseman, who has figured conspicuously for many years as a trainer of thoroughbreds in this country and abroad, particularly in France and Rumania, was among the eleven trainers and five jockeys whose applications were deferred for further consideration. T. M. Botts request for a trainers license, according to the report of the license committee, was denied on a vote of two to one, Charles F. Price and Thomas C. Bradley voting adversely, while S. C. Nuckols, the only other member of the license body, voted favorably. Curd, Frakes and Sloan failed to pass the committee of hoise-men authorized to pass upon the capabilities of applicants for such licenses and the license board. upheld the report of the committee of horsemen. The latter is composed of J. B. Respess, A. J. Baker, J. O. Whitlow, R. Goose and D. E. Stewart. Recommendations of the license committee included the tabling of the applications of jockeys Charles B. Borel and Joe Dominick, and denial of the request of Verlyn Smith, who is under the required age of sixteen years, for an apprenticeship paper. ADDITIONAL TOIE NEEDED. Messrs. Price, Bradley and Nuckols asked for additional time to consider the applications of eleven trainers and five jockeys. They were reported as being filed bv trainers C. E. Durnell, W. B. Bonnell, R. V. Elliott, E. Haywood, Henry Smith. A. G. Farson, J. H. Freeman, J. H. Guy, W. V. Ridenour and Joe Stephen. The jockeys were Frank A. Barnett, Frank Clelland, John Kirby, Kenneth Hoffman and Carlos Legnon. In several instances the license committee advised that the desire for more time was required, due to lack of identification of the applicants. This afternoon jockeys Kirby, Hoffman and Legnon were favorably acted upon by stewards T. C. Bradley and J. J. Graddy of the Kentucky Association, who are so empowered. The applications of the following, for apprentice licenses, were held up until contracts have been filed as required by the rules: Raymond Canton, J. G. Cartwright, Oswald Cooper, R. Deperini, C. Green, Otis Libby. M. E. Meyers and J. Shaddy. All will be licensed upon filing of contracts. Licenses approved include those of 252 trainers, sixty jockeys, forty-one apprentices and twenty-five agents. REPORT APPROVED. The actions of the license committee were taken at a meeting here last Saturday and the report, as unanimously accepted by the commission, came before commissioner Polk Laf foon. chairman ; Wm. E. Smith, S. S. Combs and Krasier Le Bus. Theodore Mueller wits the only member absent. All of the jockeys denied licenses are well known to patrons of racing throughout the country, and have ridden in races over Kentucky tracks. With the exceptions of Luther and Anderson, all have been here for some time, galloping horses and otherwise fitting themselves for a resumption of saddle work. Several of the seven experienced difficulty obtaining licenses at previous times, and other than recommendation that their applications be denied the license committee gave out no reasons for its action. Luthers suspension by the Agua Caliente stewards was responsible for his denial. In the case of apprentice Smith, under engagement to the Greentree Stable maintained by Mrs. Payne Whitney, New York patroness, the license committee said : "Verlyn Smith, who had been riding in Kentucky in 1929 as an apprentice, has made application for a jockeys license for 1930. Smith, in applying for an apprentice license on March S, 1929, falsely attested that he was 16 years of age, as required by rule 160, whereas at that time he was only 14, and will not reach his fifteenth year until July 1, 1930. Your committee would recommend that his application be denied, not only because its approval would be a violation of the rules, but also as a punishment for his false attestation as indicated above. Your committee would respectfully suggest that the nature Coutinued on fourteenth page. BANISH ELEVEN FROM TURF Continued from first page. of the Kentucky law regarding the employment of children under 16 years be considered in reviewing this case." Thomas Devereaux, local horseman, who was ruled off the turf several years ago, appeared before the commission. He asked a hearing of his case by the governing body and such was granted, to be heard at the next meeting of the board. Jockeys R Cramer, D. Froggatte, H.Thomas, R. Finnerty, D. Smith, M. Rose, H. Fisher, P. Groos and J. D. Mooney, apprentices M. E. Meyers, Allen Poteet, Robert Dargavell and D. Bryant and trainers W. W. Finn and Harry Herdel were others licensed by the stewards. In addition to licensing jockeys J. Kirby, C. Legnon and Kenneth Hoffman and trainer A. G. Farson, whose applications were held up by the State Racing Commission and its license committee, stewards T. C. Bradley and J. J. Graddy today passed favorably upon a number of applications. In the cases of those named the governing body and its committee did not act by reason of a lack of identification, it was said.
