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WHY THE QUEBEC MEETING FAILED Buffalo X Y August 7 Barney Sch reiber re ¬ cently returned from the Quebec meeting and who assumed most of the financial responsibility for it is not enthusiastic over Quebec prospects in a rac ¬ ing way The people there are not educated to the sport paid he They did not come out in sufficient numbers or bet in sufficient volume to give much encouragement as to future racing there That the track was a halfmile one and that owing to doubt as to the outcome of the ven ¬ ture the meeting received very little support from the horsemen may have had something to do with the failure to make a financial success of the veil ture With a modern wellequipped mile track and a strong local jockey club no doubt results might be much different
