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CAUSES SATISFACTION IN CANADA Prospective Resumption of Now York Racing Pleas ¬ ing to Canadian Folk Toronto Ont April 5 The announcement of the resumption of racing in New York State was re ¬ ceived in Canada with much satisfaction as hull rating a return of Hie commnnltv to a proper atti ¬ tude towards the s ort Tins effect here will be lieiiellclal 11 far as the general feeling can lie ascertained While a certain number of horses that otherwise would race here will lie encased 111 the New York tracks their absence will in no ma terial way discount the sport here Canadiiin traces dipend for tlulr patromige on their own people anil the attractions in tin way of substantial purses will bring all the horses that are needed While the stahles of Messrs Belinont Wilson and Whitney were always welcome the racing of the past few seasons has demonstrated that the best horses of the Canadian circuit were not those carrying their colors The enemies of racing will not be able this year to raise the fallacious cry that Canada wel ¬ comes what is driven out of New York State in the way of public entertainment entertainmentConsiderable Considerable money went from Toronto to support Highbridge in the Grand National Steeplechase and there was the keenest interest in the outcome of the raw The fact that Ilighbridge was one of twenty that failed to go the course without mishap afforded some consolation to the losers losersThe The winner of the recent Itcrmmln Derby the six yearold IJlms Laws by St Leonards II Reform Wave is coining to Toronto for the spring meeting at Woodbine His owner A P Thompson of St George Hernuida has advised a friend here and asked for the Woodbine program Blue Law was bred in New Jersey by Mrs L A Livingston but went to Bermuda as a twoyearDld and never raced on the continent of America
