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EARL GREYS LAST OFFICIAL VISIT. The present meeting will see Hie last official visit of Hi- i:ccllency Karl Grey, the governor-general of Canada, to the races at Woodbine, as his term expires at the end of the summer. Never known as a racing man in England, and with only a passing interest in the affairs of the turf, though always been about good horses. Karl Grey took a new vi-w on assuming the office of representative of the crown ill this country. Like his sovereign, and his own on de reason in ofisee here, he conceived it to be part of his duty to share in what interested a gnat many of their people, and to aid in maintaining the right lone in affairs about which, as private individuals, they may have cared very little. That his successor, the Duke of Coniiaught. will extend similar patronage to the sport of the turf is hardly to be doubted. The new gOVCnoT general will have even more direct and personal motives. His revered mot her, Queen Victoria, bred race horses, and attended English meetings in state, and it was she who gave the fifty gaiaeai for a race in Ontario for tWO-score years. Kins Edward VII.. win. continued that grant, was one of the most succeasfa] owners on the British turf, lie bred horses that were champions, and it is safe to say that he never was nearer or dearer to the bent of his people than on the occasions when he led his Derby winners back lo the scabs. Kins George has naturally followed this active participation iff What is the foundation of a great industry, as well as Itself the aaost popular • : recreations. He maintains a breeding establishment, and he races under his own name and colors, meeting his subjects where all men are equal, and asking no considerations or concessions, but sub joeting himself to the maxim, "may the best hoi win." Coming to Canada, his royal highness will liml here just as keen an appreciation of flu- sport thai th eupants of the throne have fostered iu the motherland. He la himself, and has been for many year-, a member of the Jockey Club. Prince Arthur of onnatight. his son. has a reputation a- a line boneman, and one of the boldest riders with the York ami Ainsty hound-. —Toronto Globe.
