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VANCOUVER, RACING SEASON NEARS END. Vancouver, B. C, July 24. The final race nicet-ing of the year at Minora Park commenced on Saturday uiider the auspices of the British Columbia Thoroughbred Association and will continue through all of this week. This last meeting probably will be the best of all the local meetings, for a number of attractive stake features are to be decided during the seven days. Saturday the Speed Handicap, at live furlongs, brought out the best collection of sprinters ever seen in one event at the Lulu Island track. Tomorrow will bring the Grand Champion Steeplechase. Wednesday the Press Selling Stakes will be the feature, while Friday there will be another event for jumpers to be known as the Grand National Steeplechase. Saturday the Farewell Handicap of ,000 will commemorate getaway day. Spokane, Wash.. July 24. Frank Smith, secretary of the Coeur dAlene Fair and Racing Association, who recently returned from a successful trip to Vancouver in the interest of the meeting which is to begin at the new track at Alan, Idaho, September 11, reports that Robert Leighton, to whose capacity and executive ability the success of British Columbia lacing this season is greatly due, will be here early in August to inspect the new track at Alan and to advise with the local promoters on matters designed to make for the success of the meeting. Mr. Leigh-ton will serve as presiding judge at Alan. Concerning racing at Vancouver, as it appeared to him, Mr. Smith had this to say: "They are having fine success this year in Vancouver. The public Is patronizing the sport extensively both at the gate and In the betting ring. This in spite of the fact that the car service right now is bad, it taking an hour or more to make the run from the city to Minoru Park, a distance of fourteen to fifteen miles. We expect to carrv our people twenty miles to Alan In thirty-five minutes. The pari-mutuel betting machines are immensely popular there. The public likes them even better than the old open betting rinjj conditions."
