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MANAGEMENT OF DORVAL PARK ASPIRE TO MAKE INTERNATIONAL DERBY WORTHY SUCCESSOR OF AMERICAN DERBY h Montreal, Que., November 29. In instituting the 0,000 International Derby the Dorval Park Jockey Club of tills city, organized this year, has come to the forefront among Canadian racing organizations with a single bound. It is the ambition of the Dorval management in providing so handsomely for its International Derby to establish an event that will be a worthy successor to the famous American Derby at Washington Park, Chicago, with its wealth of glory and tradition. The Dorval management is highly gratilied with the response made by the leading horsemen of Canada and the United States to the invitation to subscribe to this richest of American stakes, which was closed November 15. Tlie rtakc will have its first running at Dorval June i:, 1914. Sixty-seven subscriptions were received for the stake. Under the conditions, eacli subscriber has the right to name three horses by May 1 next, so it may reasonably be expected that the entries will represent the cream of the thoroughbreds on the American continent. It was an ambitious act in these days for a racing association to offer a stake of 0,000, but the management of the Dorval track lias an abiding faith in the future of the turf in Canada and the wonderful patronage which it enjoyed during its initial meeting made its managers feel that the metropolis of tlie northeast was entitled to the best that could be had. Under the conditions of the stake, it would have fallen uion the owner of the winner to collect the forfeits, but the wonderful response on tlie part of the horsemen lias caused the management to feel that such a compliment should not go unnoticed, and it lias decided to pay the stake in gold and assume the forfeits itself for collection, so the winner of the stake on June 13 next will be presented with a check for 0,000 payable in gold and the owners of the placed horses will also bo paid in gold. Tlie conditions of the stake in full are: "The International Derby 0,000 Guaranteed Value. For three-year-olds foals of 1911. By subscription of 50 each. The subscription to entitle the holder to name, on or before May 1. 1J14. three horses, of which two only may start. The subscription also to be subject to sale or transfer up to the time of naming horses, provided a certified copy of such transfer be Hied with the Dorval Park .Tockev Club on or ffore Mar 1. If 14. "It is further understood that the bolder of a subscription mav lease the running qualities of one or more horses for the race, provided that such lease Is consummated on or before the time of naming horses and that a certified copy of such lease is tiled with the general manager of tlie Dorval Park Jockey Club on or before the time of naming horses "Starters to pav 50 additional each. The .Tockev Club to add to subscriptions and the starting fees a sum sufficient to make the value of tlie stake 0,000, of which ,000 to the second, ,t.00 to the third and 00 to the fourth horse. "Weight for age. Winners in 1914 of ,000 to carrv two pounds extra: of ,000 live pounds extra. Nonwinners at any time of ,000 allowed five pounds, maidens ten pounds. One mile and a quarter. Kntries to clcse November ir. 191:1. To be run at the summer meeting at Dorval Park." Close analysis of the entry list which is subjoined will show that these who hold the destinies of thoroughbred racing in the United States in their n, keeping have put the stamp of their approval on racing as conducted by tracks under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Racing Associations. August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club, is one of the subscribers. The name of Belmont is famous wherever the thoroughbred is known and fresh honors were added to It this .year by the victories of Tracary, the best horse of the year in England. George J. Long, of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, is another subscriber. Under the commission form of government, racing in Kentucky has reached a high plane. W. F. Presgrave, representing the Clyde interests and those wiio preside over the destinies of racing in Maryland, is also among the subscribers. The full list of subscribers follows: August Belmont. M. B. Grubcr, 1L. P. Whitney. G. B. Morris. George J. Long. Norman Macfarlane. V. F. Presgrave. J. W. Johnston. H. C. Hallenbeck. Jos. Versailles. K. R. Bradley. Thos. J. Bird. R. F. Carman. J. S. Tyree. John W. Schorr. W F. McBride. Jefferson Livingston. A. W. McKinnon. J. L. Holland. Thos. F. Rvan. 11. C. Applegate and Co. D. Raymond. -Mrs. L. A. Livingston. Arthur Gilbert. Ral Parr. J. T. R. Laurandeau. J. F. Newman. Alex. Dubee. H. G. Bedwell. James T. McBride. A. L. Aste. J. W. Blanchet. Jericho Stable. S. N. Holman. E. W. Moore. Elmore Trueman. Weber and Ward. Dorgan and Guy. F. Mannix. J. G. Wagnon. W. O. Joplin. Chas. Reynolds. Henry J. Morris. J. M. W. Green. .T. W. Hedrick. D. F. Carter. John Whalen. B. V. Gomery. W. T. Anderson. A. Richard. J. M. Cooper. John Karusman. A. Baker. II. A. Letourneau. Quincy Stable. K. 11. Decary. K. Spence. Chapman and Walsh. K. J. OConnell. C. Reed W. M. Shcedy. W. H. Fisher. 1!. F. Guthrie. W. C Blume. N. K. Beal. C. L. Hervey. The-.horses, represented include the "twoyear-old sensation of this year. Old Rosebud i Pennant, the Futurity winner; Stromboli and other cracks in the Belmont stable: Superintendent. Hodge, Bradleys Choice, Emerald Gem. Ralph, Little Nephew, Surprising and other juvenile stars of the present season. It will be seen that up to within six weeks of the race owners will have the pick of all their horses to choose from. This is a wonderful advantage, as tlie stake horse of two-year-old form may he a selling, plater as a three-year-old, and the despised maiden as a two-year-old may be the three-year-old of the year. Then, too, if some unknown develops, a subscriber will have tlie right to lease his running qualities for the race. Taken all in all, the Dorval Derby of 1914 promises to be the greatest three-year-old race since the American Derby was abandoned. J. T. R. Laurandeau is president. Joseph A. Murphy director general, and S. N. Ilolman manager of the Dorval Park- Jockey Club.
