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A Delegate : That is what the Grand Circuit has been doing 

 for the last two or three years by allowing these trainers to dom- 

 inate. Their schedule was 3i/> per cent, and each additional horse 

 Avas 1 per cent. Result : The little fellow has been driven out by 

 these fellows. This has not worked successfully at all.' 



]\Ir. Gelo : Mr. President and Gentlemen : I was not on the 

 program, and I have a bad cold, but I have been listening here 

 and I have had the pleasure of attending these meetings before 

 now, and the impression is as I sit here and think about this, and, 

 as I have been to your fairs and the race meetings, that there 

 seems to be a disposition to get together. The whole trouble, if 

 there is any trouble, is along the line of lack of proper under- 

 standing. 1 have often thought in my office when a secretary 

 writes me and a horseman writes me, "here are two conflicting 

 interests. The horseman writes this and the secretary writes this, ' ' 

 and I think, "Well, now, those people ought to get together." 

 Someone sitting here a while ago mentioned that he Avants to find 

 out about those things. The trouble is that most of the secretaries 

 do not make it enough of their business of knowing about this. 

 They do not give it enough attention, they are more or less in- 

 ditferent about the needs of. the racing end of it. They do not 

 have a full understanding with the horsemen. Now, they all want 

 to. The disposition is to have this understanding, and we are 

 certainly improving. Tlie associations seem to recognize what an 

 important feature and factor these horsemen are with their stables 

 and entertaining their crowds, and I am inclined to believe, my- 

 self, in saying that these fairs are more of an entertainment 

 proposition than an educational proposition, and I almost agree 

 with Mr. McLaughlin, — I lielieve he said it was a joke, this edu- 

 cational feature. Now, the trouble is that they are so indifferent, 

 there are so many. You can not deal in generalities in this be- 

 cause there are a number of associations here in Iowa that I know 

 are very exacting and careful. I do not want to name them here 

 because we all know them. There are certain ones that the 

 horsemen know, and that are known in association circles, and 

 they are all right and modest. It would be all right for most 

 everyone of tliese men to know where they are. Tliey are in- 

 different about judges, as a rule, everywhere, and of course they 

 don't M-ant to spend any money on this proposition. They hire 

 these starting judges for very little, because they have got the 

 license, and, of course, that is unfair to the horsemen. They have 



