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FUTURE OF RACING IN CANADA. Fnder the above caption. C. J. F. writes as follows in the Canadian Sportsman: "The tremendous demand for stabling acconimoda tion at all of the Canadian race tracks this year augurs well fur the success of the s|sirt of kings in the Dominion. So many applications have come from all parts of the 1nited States and Canada that in some instances the resources of the management have been exceeded and a reluctant refusal bad to be given to eligible horsemen, many of whom were coming to Canadian tracks for the first time, at traded by the liberal stakes and purses and by a desire to breathe once more an atmosphere where there was something smacking of peraaaal liberty. "Having gained this vantage it is the duty of Canada to hold it. to so surround the sport and safeguard it that the tongue of slander will be forever stilled, and that the plaudits of a pleased populace shall always greet the- winner of any of the classics of the turf. The reins of turf government in Canada are in strong hands. Short meetings, which will not surfeit those who love the rataplan of the thundering Held as fhey struggle for the mastery and a stilling of t lie commercialism which has been a blot on the sport in some localities, are steps in the right direction. "The encouragement of the Canadian breeder is another powerful engine for good in connection with the turf machine. The thrill which conies to any man or woman who loves a horse race is intensified and augmented tremendously when the thoroughbred winning laurels happens to lie one of your own breeding — something which you have seen develop from ■ tiny foal blinking in the spring sunlight by the side of his dam and marveling at the delicious world of which he is now ■ part, into a splendid speeinient of equine lieauty. promising the courage and speed which make him the most prized of ids kind. "The trouble with most of those who find fault with the turf and who want to make us all goad by legislation, is that they have never known the joys of intimate companionship with the horse. The name of no decrier of racing comes to my memory wlio has even known the pleasure of an early morning I alien on a country or woodland road iu spring or autumn, the splendid animal between your knees responsive to voice and reiu, and as glad to be aliv as the man upon his back. Nor yet 1ms the tra-dueer of kingly sport been heard in print or public who knows that a pair of well-matched trotters which drive like one horse are far in advance of the automobile when one is on pleasure bent. One is never lonely in such company. The keen, scttsi tlve ears play liack and forfh and are as eloquent as a thousand voices in proclaiming their sense of delight at being one of mans aids iu the pursuit of recreation. "In the opinion of the writer the future of racing in Canada is assured. Those in authority, if thev heed history, are in a position to profit bv the nils takes of others. The Canadian Racing Association is a Ixidy of strong, sane, intelligent men who arc fond of the apart, and who have given much thought to the perpetuation of the thoroughbred. All that was necessary for the continuance and extension of racing throughout the Dominion on a scale long enloved exclusively by Woodbine was a more intimate acquaintance with the other vicinities where racing is now conducted and the adverse legislation in the United States offered the opportunity. That Canada will hold her share of the patronage even slHiuld more liberal laws be enacted across the Isirder is my firm lielief." k
