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RULE ON APPROXIMATE ODDS Illinois Tracks Limited to 115 Per Cent by New Regulation. Commission Also Adopts Rule Prohibiting Jockeys From Same Establishment Competing Against Each Other. AURORA, 111., April 22. Stricter rules regarding the posting of approximate mu-tuel odds and additional regulations controlling the practice of jockeys riding against their employers, have been adopted by the Illinois Racing Commission, its secretary, George H. Foster, revealed today. With the 1937 rule book due off the state presses any day now, these changes will be in effect for all Illinois tracks beginning with the opening of the Chicago turf season on Saturday, May 1, at the Aurora race track. It will be the rule at all tracks for the coming season that approximate odds lines must not run over 115 per cent, and no changes shall be made in approximate odds after the off-bell of each race. A true line for an Illinois track shoud run some 108 per cent, thus limiting the approximate odds lines to a leeway of some seven per cent, and permitting the racing public to know more accurately at all times the correct odds on each horse. Each approximate odds line as posted must be recorded by the race track and at the end of the day the odds shall be filed with the commission. These rules apply alike to tracks operating totalizators and those which do not. NEW RULE ON RIDERS. As for the jockey regulations, they will no longer permit riders for the same establishment to compete against each other. It has long been the custom to prevent Jockey A. from accepting a mount in a stake event in which the stable which employs him has entered a horse with Jockey B. in the saddle. Many establishments have both a veteran and an apprentice rider under contract, and the rule is aimed at preventing one from competing against the other. But as the rule is now worded, Jockey A. hereafter will not be permitted to ride against Continued on twenty-fourth page. RULE ON APPROXIMATE ODDS Continued from first page. Jockey B. even though their mutual employer has no horses entered in the event. A third rule change requires that all horses not owned outright by the owner registering them, shall have filed for them an "affidavit of real ownership in the horse," stating all information concerning anyone who may have any interest whatsoever in him. The penalty for falsification of the affidavit will be ruling off for life. Secretary Foster also announced that he would be at Aurora on Sunday to accept license applications and would be on hand each day next week in preparation for the seasons opening. Steward Christopher J. FitzGerald is expected here Tuesday to take over his duties for the state racing commission.
