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Monday. April 4, 1977

KENTUCKY

Vol. LXVlll. Number 137 Ker

an independent student newspaper]

Marathon man

UK's Jim Buell ran away with the first Blue Grass Relays Marathon

By STEVE BALLINGER
(‘opy Editor

UK Coach Ken Olson is calling him

“one of the best young distance

~ runners in the country,” but if Jim

Buell keeps improving, the word

‘young’ may soon have to be drop-
ped.

Buell devastated the field in the
Blue Grass Relays Marathon
Saturday, turning Lexington’s first
race at the spartan distance into a
battle for second place.

He did it with a long, surging
stride a nd sometimes bouncing gait,
and was in front every step of the
way. Buell’s time of 2:26.52 was
made more impressive by the
conditions Saturday.

“This is the toughest course I’ve
ever been on...the hills are really
had.“ said Buell after stepping down
from the winners’ platform at the
Shively Sports Center track, where
the marathon ended.

The out-a nd-back course led some
60 runners along Hart and Chinoe
Roads, and then switched back
across the Bluegrass farmland, over
country lanes like Squires Road and
belong Road.

Olson agreed that the short, sharp
hills made the course a challenging
one. “It isn‘t like some other
courses, which are mostly flat, to be
faster.“

A strong, gusting wind also
worked against the runners.

“One time, going downhill, it felt
like I wasn’t moving at all," Buell
said of the wind.

The wind was replaced by a light
drizzle during the last several miles,
which most runners probably
welcomed.

()ne of the races man-madt
hazards was the constant stream of
traffic on some of the back roads.
Runners jockeyed for space on the
shoulder of roads with drivers, who
angrily battled each other for the
single lane.

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Also among the traffic were
several motorcycle gangs out for a
weekend cruise, roaring up and
down the country lanes. Piloting
choppers and guzzling beer, the
cyclists resembled the bad guys in
old Annette and Frankie beach
movies.

Though they ignored the race, the.
bikers looked ominous and poten- .

tially menacing to spectators.

Buell took command of the race
from the gun. Darting out from the
inside of the track, he glanced
sideways to make sure no one was
meeting the challenge. They all
stayed back, and Buell led them
from the stadium.

He steadily increased his lead.
After three miles, Buell led Ric
Sheiver by about 50 yards. At six
miles, the margin was twice that.

When they reached the turn-
around spot. Buell passed Shciver in
the other direction with more than a
quarter-mile lead. Back on Rich-
mond Road, aboutsix miles from the

To what extent are UK students

Cheating?

By GREG: KOCIIER
Kernel Reporter

“(heating is defined by its general
usage. It includes. but is not limited
to, the wrongfully giving. taking, or
presenting any information or
materi by a student with the intent
of aiding himself or another on any
academic work which is considered
in any way in the determination of
the final grade. Any question of
definition shall be referred to the

«chart-mine": University Appeals Board.“

l’K junior .lim l’ruell ran through the wind and rain Saturday to

easily cross the finish line first in the first Blue (irass Relays
Marathon. that ended at the Shively Sports (‘enter track.

-Section 3.2. Selected Rules of the
University Senate Governing

Academic Relationships, from the

,“Student Rights and Respon-

sibilities“ ha ndhook.

Despite the strict honor code that
“a cadet will not lie, cheat or steal,
or tolerate those who do," 152 West
Point cadets were ousted from the
Academy in a major scandal last
year.

The March 28 issue of Newsweek
magazine cited the case of a Har-
va rd biochemistry student who was
suspended for one year for
fabricating letters of recom—
mendation—and then graduated
cum laude last June.

The article adds that the cases
reported are just “the tip of the
iceberg.“

The national publicity campus
cheating has received brings up the
question of how much cheating goes
on at UK. The answer to that
question is vague.

UK history professor Mary W.
Hargreaves said she has had no
problem with cheating in her large
history lecture classes.

"I don't call for specific answers
on a test," said Hargreaves, who
prefers to ask broad-based essay
questions.

Hargreaves said that, under the

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finish, Buell was out of sight.
Meanwhile, Gary Green had
worked steadily up through the
pack, to finish second in 2:37.25,
more than a mile behind the winner.
Never pressed, Buell circled the
track and broke the tape with a
smile, perhaps embarrassed at the
applause of a small, wet crowd.
Well-composed, if dehydrated, he
sat down with friends to take off his
shoes, which were stained an
alarming shade of red. It was only
dye from his shoes, though, which
would probably disappoint Erich
Segal.
. With the Blue Grass Relays
Marathon well-established for the
immediate future, the event will
begin to attract larger and tougher
fields in anarea with few such races.
Even Olympic gold and silver
marathoner Frank Shorter is
pledged to compete next year. With
a stronger field, Buell could show—
right on his home ground—where he
ranks among US. distance runners.

Student Code, it would be difficult to
prove cheating unless it was “an out-
and-out case with witnesses.

“l have had teaching assistants
come to me with answers that ap
peared to be very similar on a test,”
she said, “but. . .students do study
together before a test and I think
that is the reason the arswers are
similarly written."

Steven Channing. also a history
professor who taught a large
History-108 class last semester, said
the greatest single reason for
cheating among students was a
sense of no identification with the

(‘ontinucd on back page

Mary Todd Lincoln home
restored to antebellum glory

By JUDITH FERRIELI.
Kernel Reporter

Lexington residents would be
hardpressed not to have noticed the
changes that have taken place
downtown in recent years.

Main Street has a new look. One-
way traffic moves through syn-
chronized lights, inviting
restaurants filled with plants offer
various cuisines, and, the Lexington
Civic Center has something for just
about everyone.

Along with the rejuvenation of
downtown Lexington has come a
strong sense of preservation of the
old. Only a block away from the
modern Hyatt Regency Hotel, the
Mary Todd Lincoln home, which was
originally built as an inn more than
170 years ago, is being restored.

Mrs. Louie Nunn, wife of the
former Kentucky governor, is

chairman of a non-profit, tax-
exempt organization that originated
in 1968 to ”accumulate and preserve
historic memorabilia for the
Commonwealth of Kentucky.“

The organimtion is called the
Kentucky Mansion Preservation
Foundation, Inc., according to
Nunn, and has furnished the

executive mansion in Frankfort and

Whitehall in Madison County with
historic furniture.

The foundation is currently
restoring both the Mary Todd
Lincoln home on Main Steet and
Parker Place, the home of Robert
Todd (Mary’s father), on Short
Street.

After visiting lndiana and lllinois
and seeing what the two states had
done to preserve the home of
Abraham Lincoln, Nunn said she
became interested in the Mary Todd
house.

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“I hadn’t seen it," Nunn said. “I
found it being used as a storage
place for a warehouse. it was full of
barbed-wine fence and the second
floor was caved in.

“That was in l969, and I‘ve been
working on the project ever since,”
she added.

Nunn said seven different
womens’ clubs combined efforts to
raise money and were able in 1971 to
purchase the property for the state.

“The house is a lovely, detailed
Georgian house with 20 rooms. Eight
of these are bedrooms," Nunn said.
"We kmw from an old newspaper
article that the house was built
sometime between 1803-1806 as an
inn.“

Robert Todd, who had seven
children by his first wife, Eliza
Parker Todd, and eight children by
his second wife, Betsy Humphrey
Todd, needed a larger home and

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metro

Police said yesterday no arrests have been made
in the shooting death of Dr. c. Elliott Ray, a 27-
year-old physician. Ray was found at his home at
Merrick Place Friday night after having been shot
four times in the head with a .454aliber pistol.

nation

President t‘arter got his first formal report
yesterday from Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance
on why Moscow rejected U.S. strategic arms
limitation proposah. "I believe the Soviets will
ultimately agree with us that it is to the advantage

of the An en'can people and the Soviet people and
the rest of the world to reduce our dependence upon
this i nuclear) destructive weapon," Carter delared
as he greeted \‘arice upon his return Saturday
night. \‘ance declined to rule out US.
utsca ku lations as a reason for Soviet rejection.

Itiniiiic 'lhoinas Nance. a gunman who had
“nothing better to do" commandeered a Greyhound
bus yesterday. thr'datening passengers, shooting
out windows and demanding whiskey. He held the
terrified passengers hostage for 2'. hours before
being overpowered by an FBI agent. Nance, 28, of
\\ inter (ta rdcn. l-‘la ., was charged with 39 counts of
kidnapiirg alter the early morning incident aboard
the t irla odour-Toronto bus.

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|c\ington's \lary 'l'odd lint-olu home is undergoing restoration.

t lianccs for success are about as slim as they
were in colonial days and during the War of liil'z
when .\arrtucket and Martha‘s \'inyard islands
tried to secede from Massachusetts. but the
islanders are going to try again. About zum
registered botcrs are eligible for the referendum on
swession today on Nantucket. 22 miles from the
.\!assachusetts mainland.

world

\ hushed cloud of barely 20,000 turned out
yesterday in Kinshasa. Zaire at a mass demon-
stration organizui by the officials of the ruling
I'opular Revolutionary Movenrent to show the

rapital‘s solidarity with President Mobutu Sese
.‘t'ko Ill his struggle against a rebel invasion from
Angola. ’l'hc hour-long denrostration in the May 20
Slittlitltr' was rraikcd by an almost complete ab-
scrrcc of simntancous enthusiasm. Many of the
part icipants were children bought tip in buses by
officials ol the Movement.

’!$%?&*!'

there is a too percent chance of showers and
tlurrulcrstorrrrs, possibly heavy at times, today and
tonight 'I‘hc high today will be in the upper 50's and
the low tonight in the low 40‘s. Tomorrow will be
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One promise too many

So far. President Jimmy Carter has been
pretty good about keeping campaign promises.
I'nfortu natel y. he recently honored one promise
that should never have been made.

While campaigning for President, Carter
wrote a letter to dairy farmers in Wisconsin
which stated that if he had been President he
would have signed a bill. vetoed by President
Ford. that would have raised milk-price supports
‘0 $8.85 a hundred pounds (11.62 gallons).

Last week. Carter kept his promise to dairy
farmers by approving a stiff 9 per cent increase
in Federal milk-price supports. The an-
nouncement raises government support from
$8.26 per 100 pounds to $9.

What makes the increase so distressing is that
consumers will suffer for a program termed
excessive by the Milk Producers Federation
(MPF). the nation's largest milk cooperative.
According to MPF. an increase to $8.67 was all
the market could stand without risking a sharp
drop in milk consumption.

The [S Department of Agriculture (USDA)
says the price support hike will cost the public
and government more than $1 billion. For the
consumer. this means milk will cost 6 cents more
a gallon. In additon. the new price supports will
raise the wholesale price of butt-er 10 cents a
pound. cheese 5'; cents a pound, and nonfat dry
milk 5 cents a pound.

Consumer spending. USDA said. will rise $600
million. to $22.7 billion a year. while the
government's spending for surplus milk will
more than double. to $740 million a year from
3330.

Besides the 225.000 commercial dairy farmers
who will benefit from the incresed support. few
government agencies or individuals have had
much good to say about the increase.

Earlier this March the Council on Wage and
Price Stability endorsed lowering milk—price

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supports. Increasing suppa‘ts would not only
cost consumers more in direct price increases, a
council study stated, but it would add social costs
by diverting resources into the production of
unneeded milk. This social cost “is of benefit to
no one and can best be viewed as pure waste,”
the council repoted.

While admitting that the increase was
politically motivated, Agriculture Secretary Bob
Bergland also claims the increase was an
economic necessity.

Bergla nd told The National Observer that the
pricesupport increase was “necessary due to
the very high costs of fodder and forage which
have been brought about as a consequence of the
drought. . .Our concern is that in the absence of
any increase in this modest price support, we
would see heavy attrition and selloff in the dairy
industry. The results of this would be extremely
high prices within a year or two.”

One thing Bergland ignored, however, is that
milk output is at its highest level in 23 years
while percapita consumption. after declining for
decades. has increased only slightly the past two
years.

In order to maintain an artificial market for
the dairy products. the governmentwill spend ar.
additional $13.60 per American family to buy
surplus milk.

Apparently. Carter is more interested in
keeping an unwise campaign promise than in
protecting the consumer. It is an unfortunate
move for Carter because it’s hard to justify in
light of another campaign theme~—to eliminate
waste from government.

The price-support increase is excessive and a
waste of government funds because it artificially
maintains a glutted market that over-produces
and is incapable of disposing of its own product.

It‘s hardly our idea of a good way to make
govemment more efficient.

  
      

    

   

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The best idea of the century is
found in the box-office hit. “Net-
work.“ Peter Finch convincingly
encourages us all to open our
windows and scream. “I'm mad as
hell and I‘m not going to take it any
longer!"

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at our floor of the Office Tower. The
windows don‘t open.

I knew then that things were
horribly wrong. To name a few:

None of the straw dispensers at
McDonald‘s work.

That rhythmic rattling in my car
was a blown thermostat. not stones
in my hubcaps.

Kentucky lost.

Burger Queen commercials are
increasingly horrendous.

IowetheIRS. $104.

The (‘aptain and Tennille have
been cancelled. (ladzooks.

My pothos is dying.

Tuition at UK is rising.

Sacharrin’s on its way out thanks
to some Canadian rats who wouldn’t
stay healthy on 800 glasses of Diet
Bite 3 day. yet fluorocarbons are
still pssst'd into our atmosphere.

And now, the foul ball in the line

drive of life~the US. Postal Service
.3 —-predicts firstclass mail will be 22
_ cents a shot by 1985.

Wait, there‘s more.
Kentucky ranks in the lower two

.‘ per cent in money spent on its school
1' children, yet seemingly concerned
‘ citizen groups are attempting to
‘ abort a plan allowing Fayette Coun-

ty‘s teachers a significant voice in
the quality of Kentucky education.

An incredible lunatic holds scores
of innocent people hostage in the
nation's capital. resulting in the
(bath of a DC. newsman. and is
released without bail on his own
recognizance. But Larry Flynt is hit
with a stiff fine and prison sentence
for publishing those “disgusting
girlie pictures.“ resulting in the
(bath of no one.

Claudine Longet gets 30 days for
murder and a horse thief gets 10
years

And for prospective homeowners,

the price of a basic crackerbox is

expected to reach $90,000 before the
year 2000.

Congress got its raise, but Ken-
tucky received no federal disaster
aid this winter.

In short, life’s a mess. We‘re being
laid.

The “we" in this instance means
you and me—the folks who’ll never
make President or even senator.
We’ll never win a Nobel Prize or an
Academy Award, or make the cover
if Newsweek. We'll earn $10,000
$20,000 a year and lose nearly one
third of that to taxes. We’ll buy our
tires on credit and mortgage the
house to send the kids to college.
We'll buy tomatoes on sale. We
won‘t buy coffee.

Being a quasi-rational being, I
thought surely there had to be
logical explanations to the above.

The trouble with my car and
McDonald‘s straw dispensers is
easy to explain—l know absolutely
nothing about machines.

Kentucky lost because Dean Smith
stopped the game when Carolina
tookthe lead.

My pothos is dying because I

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Reconsider

Once again the students of UK
through the apathy of the student
representatives and the avarice and
cupidity of a power hungry admini~
stration have been sold down the
river.

I am referring to the admendment
passed by the University Senate
which makes it impossible, barring
extreme prolonged physical illness
(1' and act of God, for a student to
(top a class.

Under the old system a student
had until there was five weeks
remaining in the semester to drop a
class and get a “withdrew passing."
Under the new system students will
have only 17 class days to make their
final decision.

This will discourage experiment-
ation in fields outside of their majors
by students and it will mean that
many more students may flunk a
class just because of a personality
conflict with an instructor.

The instructors also will suffer, as
will the entire atmosphere of classes
when individuals who find they have
no interest in the material are not
allowed to drop.

Besides adding to the pressure on
students in times when a college
transcript is used like a police
record, it will also put a much
greater burden on advisers at
scheduling time.

Seventeen days do not allow
students time to sample the testing
rrocedure of an instructor. it does
not always allow enough time for an
instructor to give an adequate
sample of the course and it may not
allow a student enough time to know
if he is overburdened for the
semester.

Students cannot graduate by drop-
ping classes. no student who is
paying tuition is going to drop
classes without a reason. and it does
not hurt instructors or the admini-
stration to let a student drop a class.

I strongly urge all students to sign
the petition that is being circulated
to bring this admendment up for
another vote. If it is brought up for a
vote I urge the faculty members on
the senate to reconsider their posi-
tion. keeping in mind legitimate
student grievances.

Philip Kenkcl
Ag Econ junior

Artist attacks

"Organic art graces SC" (Kernel
3-24) was so interesting that I ac-
tually took time to go see the Oswald
Undergraduate Research display
projects the next day.

A UK senior. I was unaware that
such a unique program was offered.
Its existence shows that the Oswald
Competition suffers from a lack of

haven‘t watered it.

And the Captain and Tennille got
cancelled because they‘re awful.

But i don't know why I. an
impoverished student, must pay the
government $104 while Richard
“I‘m Not A Crook" Nixon receives
an annual pension. Oh, and watch
out—the IRS. is in the process of
implementing a totally new, bigger
and more efficient computer sys-
tem, making access to files much
swifter and simpler.

And the Postal Service knows
they‘ve got us by the tail. With no
competition, a rate-hike without
improved service is simple.

Closer to home, Preserve Our
Schools, Inc. (POS) filed a class-
action suit last Tuesday in an effort
to keep Fayette County‘s teachers
from being polled concerning collec-
tive bargaining. The uproar sur-
rounding the poll is incredible! It
appears that opponents of collective
bargaining fear that nothing short of
the Teamsters, Frank Fitzsimmons
and a few Detroit hit men will
dacend upon Fayette County,
wreaking havoc, unrest. violence
and, God forbid, change.

The UK tuition hike is only slightly

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publicity (hint, hint).

Let me attack you more
specifically. Your article in hand, I
visited the SC Rasdall Gallery. The
first display I came to was the
“water system,“ mentioned in
Bridget Mill ‘5 article.

Until I read the essay which ac-
companied the water system (en-
tered in the Physical Science
competition) I had been led to
believe that it was part of the tart
display.

Next I noticed the “mushroom
lasagna quilt,“ over which stood two
students in lively discussion about
the quilt. In my opinion, this project
is the single most clever work on
display. The artist‘s approach was
novel, we loved it.

The “heated greenery“ was trash
stacked on a board. Actually, it was
a broken TV antenna. It was the
most insignificant project on view,
which is probably why Bridget chose
to mention it. She does. by the way,
deserve one credit—A she did mention
each of the nrost unique (and
therefore original) art projects.

However. Bridget ruined her
explanation of organic art (which

Endorses British drug

No profit, no problem

Our country is going through a
crime wave such as we have never
seen before. The cause? Many
blame our ever-growing drug
problem for at least half of the
mugging. purse snatching,
shoplifting. burglary and the sen-
seless. coldblooded murder. With
our estimated one million drug
addicts each stealing an average of
$100 per day to support the habit it is
costing our country $36 billion a year
plus court and prison costs.

In addition. per reports, we are
adding 100.000 new addicts a year,
mostly young people recruitedat our
high schools and even grammar
schools. At the present growth rate
our crime costs will double in less
than 10 years.

Is there a solution? Yes, there is:
the British drug program. Some 15
years ago Britain wrote off curing
addicts and concentrated on
preventing the spread of addiction.
How‘.’ BY TAKING THE PROFIT
OUT OF THE DRUG TRAFFIC!

Britain registers its addicts and
then supplies each with his daily
needs FREE. this at less than $10
per day each for both drug and
administration costs. Their program
has been working successfully for 15
years with the number of their
addicts down to 3.500, most of them
holding jobs. Recent visitors to

understandable. Granted, a four-
year period without an increase is
umsual these days. But the Council
on Public Higher Education Execu-
tive Director Harry Snyder made
some bothersome comments in his
rationale.

Specifically, he stated that out-of-
state students will bear the greatest
burden. Out-of-state undergraduate
tuition will increase 17 per cent to
$310 per semester, while graduate
tuition will increase a whopping 27
per cent, to $800 per semester.

This is outrageous. The under-
graduate hike is justifiable in that
students could probably receive an
equivalent degree in their home
states. But placing such a financial
burden on graduate students en-
courages academic inbreeding. Not
all graduate students attend UK
because of lower tuition. UK offers
several graduate programs which
are not offered in other states, and
which may be of a higher caliber
tlnn those in other states. Now, if a
student is unable to land a fellow- .
slip, grant or assistantship, that's
freaks. .

The only positive aspect of the
proposed increase is that it provides

 

was so unique that it served as the
cyecatching title in her article! ). I
was truly amazed at the blatant
error in her comments about it.
Indeed, I dmbt she even read the
twopage essay on that project.

It‘s a shame that the Kernel does
not give still more publicity to these
projects and the artists who were
behind them. Why no names,
Bridget? You are the reporter, not
lllt‘.

Furthermore, it‘s shameful that
the Oswald project itself is not well
recognized by the general student
population or even the faculty. How
about front-page coverage when the
()swaldd winners are announced,
(tinny Edwards? Huh. how ‘bout it;
liven up the old corn stalk.

Suggestion: do individual articles
(front page) on both the lasagne
quilt and creator, and the man
behind the organic art (an entirely
new discipline in the field of art...or
so read the essay).

Rcally, Ginny. how about it? I am
looking forward to such articles
within a week.

Kathy Kelli-r

Art senior

program

Britain confirm their streets are
safe day and night.

I believe if enough concerned
citizens would write their
(‘ongressmen urging that the
program be tried out here we could
soon get it into operation, thereby
saving our country some $34 billion a
year in crime costs and. preventing
tens of thousands of youngsters a
year from becoming addicts. We
have everything to gain and nothing
to lose by trying it out.

To help get the program under
way I, with the help of friends, am
sending this letter to the editors of
250 newspapers and 30 magazines
across the country hoping many will
print it and that many people will
respond by writing their
t‘ongre$mcn.

To save you some time and effort I
suggest that you cut this letter out,
paste it on a sheet of paper with your
comments. then have photocopies
made sending them to President
(‘a rter, your Congressmen and a few
others.

With a few thousand letters going
into Washington we. can get the
program into operation here and
hopefully make our streets safe
again.

Rev. William T. Baird
l’alo Alto. Calif.

get mad as hell about. . .

an incentive to be graduated before
Fall.

But the most blatant example of
our sad state of bureaucratic affairs
involved the atrocious actions of the
Hannafi Moslems in Washington,
DC, recently. And that the master-
mind of the entire series of events
should be released is downright
stupid.

Let Freedom Ring? A friend
reminded me that the Liberty Bell is
cracked.

In order to halt our slow strangu-
lation by bumblesome red tape,
legal loopholes, etc., we need a
universal understanding that big-
gest does not necessarily mean best;
that Big Brother does not always
know what is right for us; that
human rights also include the rights
of victims as well as offenders; and
that we are mad as hell and we‘re
not going to take it any longer! As
wanky and Alfalfa would say, "And
trim!"

But first, we‘ve got to get those
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Victims of insatiable greed

Abuse of a noble creature

ll)" BURDEN DEAL
New York Times
News Service

The horse. that most noble
of all the animab, has ever
borne the burden of man‘s
vices and virtues, as well as
the weight of his body.

Because of its innate
quality of beauty embodied in
speed. the thoroughbred, in
particular. has labored under

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sin, greed. it‘s long past the
time for all who are involved
in thoroughbred racing and
breeding, on whatever level.
to takea hard look at what is
happening to the sport of
kings.

Winter racing. for example.

There is no reason, beyond
the insatiable greed of state
govemmcnts for an ever-
increasing source of painless
revenue. for this absurd
program to exist.

First, the state, in its in-
finite wisdom, forced the
racing authorities to accept
off-track betting. Once such
betting has been established,
it was inevitable that
pressure would be generated
for more and more days of
racing to. generate rrrore and
more revenue.

The horsemen themselves
resisted individually ahd
organizationaliy. But
thoroughbred racing depends

upon the good will of the state .

authorites for its very
existence. The result?
i’oorerquality horses racing
more often, for less money,

before fewer spectators.
Recently we witnessed the
spectacle of an enitre card of
harness races being run
before empty stands. purely
for the benefit of 0.'l‘.B..

Avalice is impossible to
satisfy. The pressure now is
to establish offtrack betting
across state lines, ill order
that t‘onnecticut. for
example, may derive revenue
without the investment of a
single dollar ill the production
aild upkeep of good horses
and good racing. Once that
goal is achieved. there will
inevitably be fewer races at
fewer tracks; and the broad
base upon which thorough-
bred breeding and racing has
been established will be
destroy ed.

'i‘horoughbred breeders
and the racing authorities.
hovvever. cannot hold
themselves blameless for the
steady deterioration of the
American thoroughbred.

Foremost has been the
widening of acceptance of
legal medication. This trend
has been caused partly. of
course, by the pressure to fill
the proliferating number of
races brought about by year-
round meets. iiut much of the
motivation has been a greedy
desire to continue to race an
animal too crippled or sore to
pass a starting gate under
nomzal conditions.

The foreseeable result of
legalized medication is.
again. poor specimens racing
under worse conditions. We
will we more brutal break-
downs; we will see more
animals that must be
destroyed “humanely"
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pain masked. they have been
pushed beyond their
limitations. From being
forced to ride under such
conditions. more jockeys will
be killed and injured.

indeed. the modern trend of
breeding and racing has been
against the best interests of
the breed and, ultirnatiey, of
the industry itself.

Becuase of the escalating
prices paid for thoroughbred
yearlings. because of the
increased cost of upkeep for a
racing stable. the pressure is
stronger each year for a
young horse to earn itself out
as quickly as possible.

'i‘oward that end, racing
secretaries scheduled too
many rich two-year-olds
races. We are running our
two~ycar~olds more often.
around harder tracks
groomed to produce new
records. The result is. again.
fewer sound horses available
for the far more important
threeyearnoids' season.

()ur handicapped ranks?
tssehtially four—year-olds and
above. carrying weight over a
distance of ground- have
been further wiped out by
another manifestation of
blind greed. When a fine colt
demonstrates great per-
formance in the three-year-
olds‘ classics. it only leads to
early retirement because.
under the over-inflated
values of stallions syn-
dication, he is worth more in
the breeding shed than on a
track

The great runner,
ironically