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, J , .. ? f " „ of f , is " of f 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 is " D 1 " t i I e r o e 3 _ CONDITIONS DIFFERENT IN THE WEST. Toronto. April Is. II. K. Springer, of Vancouver. ami w. .1. lavior. K. c. of Victoria, 1.. c. were two Interesting visitors iu Toronto this week. Mr. Springer is at the head id the British Colombia Thoroughbred Association, which conducts racing st Vancouver. Of the situation mi the COOS he said: "We dont vet know what our arrangements will be tor the coming summer. II we are confined to seven-day meetings I dont see how we are to g.-t along. There is considerable naoney invested in racing property in British Columbia and 1 dont think it possible to give meetings under such a limit ation of time. Our location is such that it is im possible to get horses for so short a period of racing. . And our condition is the satin- as exists all 1 through the west. Fven Winnipeg, with a Ine plant ami an organized cluh. is without the s|iort because the cluh feels that lioth ends could not lie made to meet under the present law. It was a great mis take in ixing on the limit of days to leave out all 1 consideration the radical difference between eon- dilions ill different parts of this great coimlrv. What suits here may he altogether prohibitory in the scattered west." Mr Taylor is one of the liest la f 01 mud men in America on tin- subject ot Hie thoroughhred horse, and maintains a breeding establishment near Vic otia. He had the stallion l.is-ak for several wars. ami has lately been using Cederstrome in hi- stud. Mr. Taylor just missed getting hold of one of the most noted of American sires. Hie stallion Sain. He had written to an agent in California lo huy the horse when he was put up lor sale, and did not fix [ anv limit. The Instructions miscarried, and Harney Schrelber got the foundation «• his stud for about 1,000. Messrs. Springer and Ta. lor went limn i here to Mexico on a business trip. The first shipments from the south for Woodbine racing have arrived, though they were only coming home. They wen- William Walkers lot of thirteen I and T. .1. Flwards single representative, all having been at Norfolk for the meeting, which only got half way through before Hie governors hill-billies came down like a wolf on the fold. The Walker lot is 5 no! the SSBM as left here last fall for Charleston. Their owiu i is a pretty active man in selling races and when he is touched up" he never fails to come buck, with the result that he has quite a different line up at the end of the winter campaign. And be does not appear to have had any the worst of tin- exchanges. His lot that came home consisted of Duquesne, Portarilngton, Letourno, • Sherlock Holmes, Dynamite, Tom Horn, Magic Star. inch- Ed, Banjo Jim, Dorothy Priwer, stucco. Moats 1 U. ami Flossie Lee. In the SSme car came T. .1. Flward-- live -year old black horse. Astrologer, by star Shooi Cremorne. The horses that Allan Bulcroft brought here from Montreal arc Sir H. Montagu Allans Irish Heart and Irish King; the Inveieck Stables Hermanns and Flowery Land: N. Macforlones Cliff Stream and Lady Spencer, and 11. A. Fkcrs Wicksoti, .liti .hisii and Lisle Hose.
