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STEEPLECHASES ARE NOT SATISFACTORY. New jTaffe. J - IP II Is Bald that if there is not a radical Improvement In cross .country rae ing In tin near future, that particular branch of Hi, aporl will lie cut out of Hie program of the New Vera tracks. The itevpW-hasIng has been so i« below I In- mark all s.-ason that several othcnils ,.| the lacing associations arc agitating a moveinenl lo abolish ii entirely. If Hie movement should go Ihroiigh to relegate the steeplechaser lo Ihe hunt club meetings, tin- owners of ihe horses that race between Hie Hag! will bare no one lo Ida bill themselves. Main sleep!. chasers were sen lo Canada this spring. Their absence from Hie local meetings so Injured the aporl that led more Hum one or two contests, or what mat be called such, have liken place to date. Scarcely more than four horses have taken imrt in Bay one race. Besides. Hie horses were of such p caiib.i thai mart 1,11 i ■ before the win nine posi was reached the nne was nrartlcallj d* cideii because some horse was - superior thai be gin I an earlj adrantage ami i , . ■ i the result assured, burring at-rkteat. ot contests there bam lici n few oi none.
