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[ WHO IS BONA FIDE I ! ILLINOIS OWNER? ! I • The knotty problem of what constitutes a bona fide Illinois owner of race horses will likely be one of the points which the Illinois Racing Commission will be called upon to settle when the thirty-day Hawthorne race meeting opens next Monday. At least the question has been brought up by the Illinois Thoroughbred Horse Owners Association, and some decision as to whose horses are eligible for the Illinois Owners Handicap late in the Hawthorne meeting will have to be made before many days of the meeting at the west side race course have passed. In its previous running the closing date I for the Illinois Owners Handicap — to which only the horses of bona fide Illinois owners are eligible — has been early. The condition that a horse must be the property of an Illinoisan when the nominations close and I can carry only that owners colors in the j stake has sufficed to limit the field. This season, however, nominations for the 1 Illinois Owners Handicap will close only a few days before its running and there would be nothing to prevent an Illinoisans picking up an outstanding horse a few days before the race and then disposing of him immediately afterward. The Horse Owners Association has decided that something should be done to protect the Joona fide Illinois owners; one of its suggestions is that only horses owned by j the members of the association be permitted I to start in the Illinois Owners Handicap. A I decision as to the conditions under which I horses will be eligible is expected as soon as the Hawthorne meeting gets under way. More than 150 horses are already stabled at Hawthorne and adjacent Sportsman s Park and schooling will begin this week.
