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41,045 Horses Lip-Tatcfoed By Representatives of TRPB NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 15. Tomorrow is the seventh anniversary of the tattooing of the first thoroughbred in America. At Saratoga, on August 16, 1946, tattoo brand Z-2933 was first applied to the upper lip of Yankee Dollar, owned by A. G. Vander-bilt, according to Spencer J. Drayton, president of the Thoroughbred Racing Protective -Bureau. During the past seven years, Drayton said 41,045 thoroughbreds have been tattoo branded and no tattooed horse has ever been involved in a ringer case. All 37 TRA member tracks require that every horse running at these tracks must be tattooed. The Jockey Club has also recommended the branding of thoroughbreds by the lip tattoo method. Whenthe TRPB was first organized, one of the major problems confronting it was the ringer fraud the substitution of a, fast horse for a slow one or vice-versa. Following extensive investigation and scientific research, the TRPB settled on the lip tattoo brand as a positive, permanent and speedy method of identifying horses.
