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NOTES OF THE TURF Starter Tumes Milton is helping the management of the new Dorval track at Montreal get the plant ready for a meeting next month monthOnly Only one horse has been put on the schooling list at Saratoga Harry Payne Whitneys Contrary She Is no doubt well named James Row schools his colts thoroughly himself and rarely has one that acts fractiously fractiouslyMiss Miss Nichols the tenyearold mare Avhose identity and eligibility was questioned at Mineral Springs after she won a race for maidens is racing in winning form at Vancouver 15 C where she was shipped at the close of the Mineral Springs meeting meetingThough Though this is the fifth of August and tho country was to have a surfeit of racing according to its opponents there has not yet been fifty days oC racing at all the tracks of the Canadian Racing As ¬ sociations covering the territory from Montreal to Windsor Toronto Glolw GlolwTrainer Trainer W S Trevey practically admitted before Hawthorn went to the post at Saratoga Tuesday that the gelding had not been at himself for some time but said he had improved more in ten days at the Spa than he had all summer If I hail brought him hero Instead of going to Canada said Trevey he would be as good now as he ever was wasChief Chief Justice Hunter of the Province of British Columbia and Mi W J Taylor K C of Vic ¬ toria were guests of the British Columbia Thorough ¬ bred Association at Minoru Park one afternoon re ¬ cently It was the decision handed down by the chief justice over a year ago that enables the Van ¬ couver association to conduct an extended meeting each summer at Minoru Park Mr Taylor is the greatest breeder of thoroughbreds in western Canada He recently imported some select mares from Aus ¬ tralia and England among those from England being Eastern Lily a daughter of Lily Agnes the dam of Ormonde For sires he has St Slmonian II and Cedarstrome Lissak which formerly did stud duty on the Taylor ranch met with an accident last winter and was destroyed
