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PROVIDING FOR CANADIAN-BREDS. Proper provision for hoinc-bred horses in arranging racing programs for Canadian tracks is under discussion in Oanaila just now. Tin- Montreal Mail publishes the following under an Ottawa dale line: ""Utile credence is placed liy tbe directors of lie foiiiiauglit Park .locke.v Mutt in tile report from Toronto that: several of tlie prominent Canadian owners have decided to boycott tile Ottawa race meetings this year liecausc of dissatisfaction over I lie amount of money offered for competition anion:; tlie Canadian-bred runners. Uacing Manager Albert Uohrhack states tliat in liis belief t lie reiiort emanated from the same source as did tbe injurious rumors about this time last year that the Conuaiight Park track would not he lit for racing. He added In an interview that representatives of the Seagram, Hcndrie, Dynient and Davies stables bad given him assurance that they would send their best horses here. Only one stake for Canadian-bred horses has been put on the program for the spring meeting June Hi to 2.!, but it is lirobahle that there will be at least two for the fall meeting. The Coimaught Park ollicers say that Canadian horses arc not lit for their best work in the early summer and that races of this character do not till well enough until the fall series. The Duke of Connanghts Cup. which went last year to Charles Campbells I.iudcsta, will again be a stake for the Canadian-bred horses in .lime. The club was requested to add another .010 stake for Cauudian-breds at the spring meeting, but could not see its way clear to do so." Harry flood, sporting editor of the Mail, comments on the situation as follows: "Manager Uohrhack furnishes as a reason for Conuatight Park not giving more than one race for Canadian-bred horses at the .lune meeting that they are not at their best at that period of tlie year. Yet Ottawa comes two weeks after Toronto, where some twenty thousand dollars will be given for Canadian-bred races exclusively. Than the Ontario .Jockey Club, there is no wealthier racing organization in this country and its policy form lirst to last has been the encouragement of Canadian-bred and Canadian-owend animals. 1 do not know how His Royal Highness the Governor-General regards Mr. Bohrbacks policy, but I am persuaded if carried out. it will be a serious deterrent to home entries ami prove a blow to the sport, right at the nations capital. Prejudice is rampant as it is and it will not be lessened by Mr. Itohrbacks words and action. If there is out- place in the world where every encouragement should be given to Canadian products, that place is Ottawa. Mr. Uohrhack is making a fatal mistake, Mr. Seagrams stable is almost entirely Canadian-bred and it is a sure thing he will not. ship there for one race. Mr. biddings stable consists entirely of Canadiau-hrcds and lie will not enter. The Ilendries and others are to a certain extent similarly situated. Mr. Hohrbaek may present a stiff back now, but he will regret it later on." The following day the Mall published the following dispatch from Ottawa: "Although ollicers of the Connaught Park Jockey Orb announced yesterday that there would not be any change in their book of stakes for the spring meetings, the kick of the Canadian owners, in connection with the scarcity of events for Dominion-bred and owned horses, has evidently had some effect. Today, after a meeting of the racing committee, it was anounccd that the Chateau Laurier Stakes of ,000 and added moneys had been donated for the fall meeting, which opens the last week in August. This will be for Canadian-bred and owned runners and the conditions governing it will be announced later. According to the directors it was decided some time ago to offer the Chateau Laurier Stakes for Canadian owners, but they did uot wish to make It known until the issue of the book of conditions for the fall program. Manager Uohrhack states that the Chateau Laurier Stakes would have lieeu given for the spring meeting were it not for the fact that Canadian horses were not ready in time. There was considerable opposition to the donation of the Chateau Laurier Stakes on the ground that the tields were so small last year and the races for the Dominion stakes lacked excitement and competition, but finally it went through as announced. This will leave two stakes for Canadiau-breds at the fall meeting, viz.. the Sifton Plate and the Chateau Laurier Stakes, while there will le one overnight event each afternoon, spring and fall, for Canadian strings only. It is calculated that the addition of the Chateau Stakes will have the effect of leaving the horsemen satistieT. Manager Uohrhack same forth today with indignant denials to the reports that the Ontario horsemen were not given the best of treatment In the way of stabling accommodation. The only owners, he savs, who had any reasonable kicks, were those whose horses arrived unexpectedly ami unusually late. All the stables had been allotted and they were provided for as well as possible."
