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TAKES MUTCHM0RE TO TASK. The Toronto Globe publishes another tetter beat ins hi the subject of providing races for Canadian- hiiils from a correspondent who sjsns htmsell •■pop " It is as follow -: "Believing as I do that, so far a-, the promoters i I race gatherings are concerned, the oid sporting spirit has largeb disappeared. 1 am not soins to I ike sny exception to tin- policy of the Counaughl Jot-key i Inh ol Ottawa or in any way la criticise tin -anie. hut | cani.ot help lakiii- exception lo the remark in this days paper of your correspoll dent. Much more. when he says: I give you mj word thai in its tirst: year of existence tie- Coons ugh t Park Club save for anadian horses more thai icn times :is much as the Ontario Jockey Club did in the firs! ten .ears of its existence. Sol .-! i present being aide to leave the house, I cannol furnish stiti-iirs |q refutation of a statement wl eb appears to me "in the highest degree absurd. •In til- tirsl place the circumstances were en tirelj different, alne-teutba of tin starters and winners in the earl] years ol the Ontario Jot-kej club being either Canadian-owned r Canadian-bred horses. .r thai, when I think of i he steadfast policy pursued by the late !. C. Patterson in the interest "i Canadian racing, I think MutehiuorcH" statement nol only wide of the mark, but also ri rllcnlous. in rummaging around 1 came across a i.i idwins Guide ••! 19S5, when the Uotario Jockei l lub had been mi existence four or five years, and I lind that in t«" nays Canadian owned or Cans dian lueil lioises won. without tie- entrance fees sj..ik Suheequentlj both purses and length of nc-ciins were increased Bat taking the amount simllarlj won as the same in each of tin- ten rears, we tad 3,000 for I he decade at the spring meetings only. Did the Conuonght Park Club sue t-i the liisi year of Its existence a quarter ..i i huu ilred tboitsaud, let alone a quarter of a million dollars- Perhaps Mittchmore means in either one id the tirst ten years of the Ontario Jockey Clubs ei i-tence. but even then the statement is exceeding ly wide of the mark,"
