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the secretary takes the entry under those conditions, you are all 

 right, but if the secretary takes the entry that comes in without a 

 check, and such trouble should come up, he is personally respon- 

 sible for it. 



Mr. Shipman : That is the thing I am referring to ; they are 

 responsible for that entry. 



Mr. Curtin : But I don't know of anything of that kind having 

 come up this year. 



Mr. Shipman : It has lots of places — where the horsemen set- 

 tled, they just used the basis of the four or six horses entered. 



Mr. Curtin : Of course, that will come up, and if they advertise 

 other horses on their list, they can be held for it. They shouldn't 

 take an entry unless a man's check is pinned to it. 



The President : Gentlemen, if you w^ll permit, we will go on to 

 the next topic, unless there is some other question here. 



Mr. Olsen : I would like to ask you a question about the race — 

 to give more money for races in those little county fairs which 

 are all over the country, or can we do something else and make it 

 a success? I would like to hear from some one that don't have 

 any interest in it as a professional horse racer. Can we use just 

 local horses — is that a success, or not? It looks to me that all 

 those small county fairs have got all they can do to pay out, and 

 some of them are running behind. Now, to give four or five hun- 

 dred dollars in purses, and some of them have got up to three or 

 four thousand dollars, becomes quite a burden, and I am won- 

 dering if it will pay out? We have got to have something of that 

 sort, and I would like to hear from some one if they have fairs 

 and use local horses in the races, and how that takes with the 

 people and whether that is satisfactory with the people as an 

 amusement, or not. 



Mr. White : A few years ago down at Malvern we had a good 

 deal the same proposition. It was at a time that Omaha had 

 their meetings out at Benson, and they were going to hold their 

 meeting the same week we had a county fair. Being so close we 

 didn't feel that we could compete, so we gave a July harness race 

 meet, and then a fair and agricultural exhibit in September. We had 

 a few people that were knocking on the races all the time and 

 thought that was money thrown away, but we went ahead with 

 our annual agricultural meeting, with mule races and things like 

 that. The ag-ricultural fair didn't amount to much, but we had 



