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entrance fee down about 3 per cent, and 5 per cent for money win- 

 ners. I believe that is coming, for the reason that it is an enter- 

 tainment feature. Now, as a demonstration of that kind to show 

 how it is interesting to you, take it over to the Iowa State Fair. 

 You take it when we have the program ready to pull oif there, 

 last year we had seventeen thousand persons in front of that 

 grandstand. I do not care if we put out five thousand dollars, it 

 is worth it for the entertainment. That afternoon M-e can not get 

 a corporal's guard in that grandstand and we do not try. If these 

 people did not want this thing they would not go there seventeen 

 thousand strong and pay for that afternoon. 



As Mr. Culbertson says, you can have your automobile races 

 and motorcycle races, but I tell you, gentlemen, the people like to 

 see those things race that breathe the same air that you breathe, 

 and you ought to give these horsemen consideration. I thank you. 



Delegate from Marshalltowai : I w^ould like to know how many 

 fairs there are represented here today that have a grandstand of 

 sufficient capacity to accommodate the horse races. If any of you 

 hare enough rooin in your grandstand to accommodate these 

 crowds that want to get in there to see the races, I wish you would 

 put up your hands. I see one hand raised. Right there is a point, 

 gentlemen, where I believe the fair associations are standing in 

 their own light. I never went to a fair on a good day but what 

 I was obliged to get up from a seat that was kindly tendered to 

 me by the secretary of that fair in the grandstand, to give to some 

 lady. Up in Marshalltown we put one hundred feet onto the 

 grandstand some two or four years ago, and we have two hundred 

 sixty feet now. It will seat probably 2,150 people. On the last 

 day of the fair over there this year we sold 3,300 tickets for that 

 grandstand, at twenty-five cents. The result is that you are going 

 to increase the capacity of the grandstand. When we increased 

 that the receipts each following year paid us 60 per cent, on the 

 investment. I believe the lack of money to pay adequate purses 

 lies in the fact that with the fair's dividends you do not provide 

 an adequate place for people to go and sit. Build your grand- 

 stands to accommodate the people that want to go in there, get 

 your money out of the people and give it to the horsemen, and you 

 have solved the whole question. 



A Delegate : The riuestion of breeding racers was brought up a 

 little while ago, and, as stated by the gentleman from ]\Iarsludl- 

 town, I think some horsemen thouglit they were not right. Points 



