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OTTAWAS NEW RACE TRACK DIRECTORS CHOSEN FOR COURSE THAT WILE BE OPENED NEXT SUMMER. List Includes Names of Prominent Canadian Officials and Venturo Will Bo Conducted Along High Class Lines Buffalo Man to Bo Manager. Ottawa, Out., September 5. Senator. N. A. Beli court, Sir Frederick Borden, Hon. Clifford Siftou. Licut.-Col. J. W. Woods, Edward S. Skead. W. A. Gray. M.D.. Stewart McClenaghan, L. M. Bate. E. S. Houston, F. W. Calling, G. E. Fauquier. Thomas Ahearn, W. H. McAulIffc, James, K. Paisley, George Edd Stacey and Albert Rohrback comprise the directorate of the Ottawa Jockey Club, which is the official title of Ottawas new racing-organization. A glance at the list of the foregoing names, which includes several members of parliament, is sufficient guarantee that the Ottawa track will bo conducted on a high-class, clean-cut plane. With such splendid backing this club should win for itself a high place in Canadian turf affairs. Albert Rohrback, of Buffalo, has been chosen manager of the new organization. An up-to-dato mile track, with all modern improvements, will ba built betweeu now and spring within five miles ot the center of Ottawa. It will be reached in twenty minutes ride by trolley or steam cars an1 will bo situated opposite the new Chateau Laurler, Ottawas ,000,000 hotel, on the Ottawa river. Ottawas new track will be opened under auspicious conditions. The Duke of Connaught, the lato King Edwards brother, is the incoming governor-general of Canada. The opening of the track wilt be dedicated to his grace. It might be added that It is tho intention of the Ottawa Jockey Club to invito his grace to serve as honorary president oC the club. The Ottawa Jockey Club will affiliate with the Canadian Racing Association.!, the governing turf liody of the Dominion. While it cannot be definitely stated at this time, the management hopes to open, its first meeting, one of seven days duration, between Juno 1 and 15. 1912. The Ottawa Jockey Club dates, of course, will be governed by the official allotment of dates on the Canadian circuit next season. Tho track will be perfection, so far as appointments are concerned. A spacious grandstand, somewhat after the style .of that at Fort Erie, which is acknowledged to be one of the best on the Canadian circuit, will lie erected; A clubhouse will bo built and the members of the exclusive society in Ottawa and other Canadian cities will bo formally invited to be members of the club. The lawn, with a velvet green coating in front of the clubhouse and grandstand, will be unusually extensive. The steeps-chase course will be a reproduction of tho splendid infield course at Woodbine. No purse of less than 00 will be offered by tho Ottawa Jockey Club. A stake event, that will tako first place from a sporting standpoint, will be Inaugurated at the first meeting and run annually. Before the first of the year Sir. Rohrback will announce a complete list of stakes to be held in conjunction with the opening meeting. The management will look after tho comfort of the horsemen in bountiful fashion. Stables of the modern type, big and airy, will be coustructed. The stable accommodations, according to specifications, call for at least 500 individual stalls. "I am not in a position at this particular time to state definitely just what stakes we will give." said Mr. Rohrback. but we will offer purses of sufficient size to attract the best stables in America." "Regarding the system of lietting," continued Mr. Rohrback, "we will decide that question at one of our early official meetings. In any event, we will employ a system that will be in perfect harmouy with the best interests of racing in Canada." One of the features in connection with the new Ottawa track is the fact that It is within ulnetv miles of Montreal. Daily special racing trains will be run between these two cities during tho Ottawa meeting.
