TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART III 139 



opinion, if a horse could race without fear of a record up to a 

 certain time, there would be no pulling, and then, say, the second 

 week in July, or whenever you fix it, when the purses are getting 

 larger and when they can afford to take records, then let them 

 race the race of the year on their merits. A lot of horses race 

 in their class just ten days or a week before the meeting, and 

 then because of their speed they are out of it, while the other way 

 you would get a real contest. 



Mr. Moore: That just fixes it right there. How many people 

 in this room are members of the American Trotting association? 

 How many are represented at Chicago today? There is one. 

 That answers the question right there. 



Mr. Curtin: How many were there last February? * * * Four. 



Mr. Moore: As long as you fair men kick about the horse race 

 game and don't take the trouble to be represented in the Ameri- 

 can Trotting association, but send your proxies, you have no 

 right to kick about the rules. 



Mr. Curtin : Many of the men gave their proxies to Mr. Cam- 

 eron. I had five or six proxies myself. 



Mr. Moore: That's the trouble. Let's all go to the meeting 

 next February. 



Mr. Stanbery : If you cannot go, send your proxies to Mr. 

 Curtin or Mr. Cameron. 



The President: Since our time is very limited, we will have to 

 hasten on with the program, and unless there is something im- 

 portant further in this discussion, we will have to start on an- 

 other topic. 



Mr. Shipman : There is one thing I have been thinking about. 

 I get around to a great many fairs, and especially at the late fairs, 

 and run up against one thing that will make somebody trouble. 

 You are racing on the added money plan. You publish a great 

 big long list of entries, but when the horses come to start you 

 have got from four to six horses to start, and you deal with the 

 horsemen on the basis of the four or six entries. Some day some 

 horseman will say "Where is the balance of that entrance 

 money?" and he will insist that you settle up on the basis of the 

 published entrance list, and you will have to do it unless you take 

 care about it. 



Mr. Curtin : The solution of that, Mr. Shipman, is that under 

 the added money plan the check must be sent with the entry. If 



