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Commission Rulings Reported to Daily Racing Form At a regular meeting of the Illinois Racing Board held here yesterday morning at the board offices, the recommendation of the boards License Committee that Earl W. Fouts, who was under suspension, be restored to good standing was adopted. Likewise, the committees recommendation that jockey Gilberto Olivera be restored to good standing was approved by the board. Following a hearing wherein Charles A. Limericks plea for reinstatement was heard, the board took the matter under advisement. The hearing had been adjourned since July 17, 1945, at the request of Limericks attorney, James Maher, who again represented the petitioner. Ednyfed H. Williams, board chairman; William E. Fay, member; Clement A. Nance, secretary, and Albert J. Mesirow, assistant attorney general and counsel for the board, were in attendance. Board member Frank E. Mandel was absent due to illness. LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 25. Meeting at the State Building here yesterday, the California Horse Racing Board approved a program of stakes for next winters Santa Anita meeting, and considered several cases which had been on the calendar for some time. No additional evidence was submitted in the case of trainer Roy W. Selden, suspended for six months during the Santa Anita meeting for the alleged possession of narcotics and hypodermic syringes and his plea for reduction of the penalty was taken under submission on a brief submitted by his attorney. Trainer J. Taylor, represented by attorney Harrison Call, denied having administered benzedrine to the horse, Red Beard, a winner at Bay Meadows on May 10 last, and claimed to have had no contact with the animal throughout the day of the race except for saddling him in the paddock. The horse was at that time the property of Dr. L. E. McGee, who had left him in Taylors charge when the former was called away from the race course. The Taylor case was taken under submission as was that of Dr. McGee, charged with failing to properly report the transfer of the horse to Taylors care. The case of W. G. Irvine, fined 00 by the Bay Meadows stewards for allowing the horse, Can-Jones, to be entered twice under the name of another owner, was also taken under submission and the commission is expected to decide whether or not the suspension against the horse will be lifted and under whose ownership he may race. An application of the Del Mar Turf Club for appointment of Chester C. Jones as presiding steward and John R. Maluvius as racing secretary and handicapper, was approved on condition that judge J. Kingsley McComber be named as steward representing the commission.
