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to know. If I were putting up a program for a large fair today, I 

 believe that under the announcement of the class and horses I would 

 try to get in a little bit of something regarding each horse in there 

 to give the people a line on them. I think that will make your racing 

 more attractive. I ran onto a pamphlet the other day sent out by the 

 Harness Horse Association and in it is one paragraph that I want 

 to read to you, because it bears upon the question of properly staging 

 your fair. 



"The staging of the sport of harness racing is another matter that 

 is largely in the hands of the horseman. Programmers should be 

 licensed and instructed that programs should contain complete and 

 accurate information as to horses, and that drivers be properly num- 

 bered and have distinctive colors. A marked copy of such a score 

 card to Registrar Best would make the compiling of the Year Book 

 a picnic compared with the laborious task it is now." 



I wish that the parent associations could pass a law that would 

 compel the horseman to wear colors. The grooms should wear uni- 

 forms. We should have a uniform program and the programmers 

 should be licensed so that they would have to give the people what 

 they are paying for. I think this is an essential matter and I would 

 like to see this association recommend such a proposition to the par- 

 ent association. 



Another question Mr. Lauer asks is whether or not the horsemen 

 are asking too much for their entertainment. Other attractions 

 cost you a goodly sum. Whether you pay for them outright or 

 whether they come to your fair on a percentage basis, if they are 

 good attractions they are worth the money. The horseman ships 

 his animals to your town, puts on the major program of your fair 

 and I think it is up to you people to divide with him. I think he 

 should have a look-in. This question is getting dangerously near to 

 the questions that the Horsemens' Association have been discussing. 

 I would say that you are not paying the horseman up to the present 

 time any too much for your attraction and you must find some way 

 to make that horseman race up to form. I attended a fair in this 

 state last year — several of them, so far as that is concerned, but one 

 in particular that I have in mind — and there were two races there 

 during the week. In one of them one horse took two heats, another 

 horse took a heat, and then this horse that took the third heat was 

 so fast that he strung the field all the way from the head of the 

 stretch clear to the wire. He was an outstanding horse and it 

 seemed to me that he could have gone on and won — I don't know 



