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THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT. W1. O. Parmer, of Nashville, Tenn., and G. M. Hendrie, of Detroit, control Fort Erie and Highland Park tracks, and these, as is well known, constitute the big end of the so-called Canadian circuit. Mr. Parmer is very sanguine as to the success of his ventures during the coming season. The stake entries have filled well in response to material additions to the amount of added money offered. The dates for the Canadian circuit will be substantially as follows: Racing will begin at Toronto May 23 and continue there twelve days. Hamilton will follow with a six days meeting, and then the Highland Park meeting will open June 22 and last nineteen days. This will follow immediately after the twelve days trotting meeting at Campaus Grosse Point track. Fort Erie is next to the line, the meeting there opening July 14 and continuing for forty-five days. After this the campaigners will go back to Highland Park for the fall meeting, which will continue seventeen days. At Fort Erie 5,000 will be expended on building new stables, repainting the grand stand and regrading the track. At Highland Park the grand stand will be remodeled and new stables will be provided at a cost of 0,000. Messrs. Parmer and Hendrie now regard their racing venture as an assured success and they expect handsome returns during the coming season. The sport has been materially popularized in western Canada, Detroit and Buffalo by these tracks and the combination into a circuit of these two tracks, along with Hamilton, Toronto and in all probability Montreal, has taken into that section of the racing world a much larger and higher class of horses than could have been expected without concerted action. I
