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INCREASING INTEREST IN THOROUGHBRED. Gratifying Result of Recent Meeting at Montreal . Industry Feeling the Effect. Montreal. Que.. July 1. As one result of the recently closed meeting of tlie -Montreal Jockey Club, the ownership fever has broken out again in oid Montreal and many men whose fathers raced here thirty years ago have decided that the best way to enjoy racing is from the proprietary standpoint. Some of them are therefore rummaging in musty garrets for the old silks and are buying horses In training, horses out of training and broodmares in foal. With one or two exceptions there was not a man in Montreal two years ago who would have given much for a carload of thoroughbreds and the change may be ascribed to the fact that racing is flourishing. The hundred-dollar horse hereabouts is a tiling o the past. There is a rising generation in Montreal which is prone to reverse things, and which, instead of throwing up its hands at the sight of a good American horse, believes in taking advantage of the present favorable American . market, securing as good as they can and then telling everyone to come on. It does not require a philosopher to see that this is at least a rabid way to-improve the breed. The other method, that of securing broodmares lias many folloversj and in Montreal and- vicinity t licit: are now eleven fine mares in foal to such thoroughbreds as Dublin, Ostrich. Rosemount, One Boy, Javlin and Oraculum, while down at Quebec Mastermari has had to his court all "the thoroughbred mares in that vicinity, and is under the personal supervision of such splendid sportsmen as Dr. Colin Sewell, Colonel Ashmead and Mr. Allen Bos-well. Down near the Saguenay the great Australian thoroughbred. Seahorse II.. is liclng mated with a choice band of French-Canadian mares and with some thoroughbreds as well, and at Hull, across the river from Ottawa, Kirkfield and Valjean are at public service. But what may surprise turf lovers is that the maritime provinces have made a mighty spurt ami that In New ilirunswick alone there are thirty-one choice thoroughbred mares, all of which it is hoped are safely in foal to thoroughbred stallions. Arrangements were made in Montreal during the past week to bring twenty-five mares in foal here some time in July to be- disposed of privately or by auction.
