. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. jgke jgjfreecter *mtl jlpircisroam Janl The Germ of a New Trottiner Asso ciation- [Chicago Horseman.] Some of the most prominent seeretarys and managers of trotting associations in the west were in attendance at the meeting of the International Fair Association held in Chicago December 15th and 16th. Amoug them was FestuB J. Wade, Secretary of St. Louis Fair Association; Daniel J, Campan, [Secretary Detroit Driving Club; Judge George G. Per- kins, Director Latonia Association, Covington, Ky.; Daniel H. Wheeler, Secretary Omaha Exposition Association, and A. P.
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. jgke jgjfreecter *mtl jlpircisroam Janl The Germ of a New Trottiner Asso ciation- [Chicago Horseman.] Some of the most prominent seeretarys and managers of trotting associations in the west were in attendance at the meeting of the International Fair Association held in Chicago December 15th and 16th. Amoug them was FestuB J. Wade, Secretary of St. Louis Fair Association; Daniel J, Campan, [Secretary Detroit Driving Club; Judge George G. Per- kins, Director Latonia Association, Covington, Ky.; Daniel H. Wheeler, Secretary Omaha Exposition Association, and A. P. Cosgrove, Asst. Sec'ty Kansas City Exposition. One and all of these gentlemen expressed them- selves as warmly in favor of a new association, and pledged their respective associations to take an active part in calling a convention, and making up an organization. They stated that not less than one hundred associations in the west and fifty in the east would send delegates to such a meeting, that they were in earnest in the matter, that their senti- ments were fully endorsed by the members of the International Fair Association the follow- ing resolution introduced and passed unani- mously at the afternoon session, on the 16th, is the best evidence: Resolved, That the best interests and the fair conduct of speed trialB all over the c ountry require the formation of a new asso- ciation for the regulation of the same, inde- pendent of any like association now in existence, and that the fairs in this association, which include speed premiums in their oatalogue, will heartily aid such a movement, The Chicago Tribune, in its reportsays: Judge George G., Perkins who introduced the resolu- tion, is a director of the Latonia Fair at Coving- ton, Ky., and like all Kentuckiansis intensely interested in horseflesh. He is one of the many horsemen who are very much dissatis- fied with what he terms the arbitrary management of Secretary Vail of the National Trotting Association. "It isn't
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