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ARMY HORSES QUARTERED AT D0RVAL. Montreal. Que.. November CV-The plant of the Dorval Jockev Club at Dorval ,13 a scene of bustle and activity, "and a chance . visitor might have been excused for believing that preparations were being made for another race meeting. But there is no race meeting contemplated. What is actually taking place is the active preparation for receiving and tending at the track a. -shipment of fifteen hundred horses from Saskatchewan, the nif t of that province to the imperial government. Mindful of the offer made bv President J. T. R. Laureiuleau and the directors of the Dorval Jockey Club to place the Dorval plant at the disposal of , the, military authorities, the officers In charge of the remount department took advantage of the offer, with the remit that the plant, which had lieen closed down for winter, was opened up on Saturday and stalls bedded down and accommodation made for the stabling of fifteen hundred horses and the small army of attendants accompanying them. i J . I 1 I j i
