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, i j f i 1 I ; i i j , , i , ; PREDICTS SUCCESS AT NEW ORLEANS. New Orleans, La., December 2. John F. Ryan, manager of the Canadian National Bureau of Breeding, with headquarters at Montreal, Que., is here superintending the shipment of a consignment of horses for the French and English armies that in numbers breaks all records for an American port since tile outbreak of the European war. Mr. Ryan is enthusiastic over the outlook for a successful revivial of racing here. In the course of an interview with a representative of the Tinios-Pleavuno, lie said that he regarded a thoroughbred horse as the most perfect living thing on earth today, next to man. He declared that he lias found, from long experience and close study, that the race track does more, perhaps, than any other agencv for the development of the horse. "We consider the race track from the standpoint of its economic value, and find that it is of inestimable worth to the nation," lie remarked. "The race track brings out purity in the iiorse stock, and this same purity is reiiected in every branch of industry or effort to which the horse is applied. If we had more of this correct and careful breeding, such as is required In the development of tue race horse, the hack and plug soon would disappear. Our experiments In the National Bureau convince me of this fact. Yes. I favor racing as a high class sport, but I favor it more as a means to a great end, an economic end that means added wealth to the nation and the conservation of wealth. "I was vorv much gratified to read in the newspapers of this and other cities that representative men of New Orleans were behind -the-movement to restore racing here, and glancing at the names of those men. 1 was at once convinced that the project would be conducted on the highest possible plane. . "The old race track with all its objectionable features is not a part of the present day thought or culture, but the new race track, such as is planned for New Orleans, Is a proposition that should be encouraged. It is absurd to say that races cannot be conducted according to a high standard of honesty and uprightness. All that is needed is the right sort of men in the movement, and there wont be a suggestion of the old evils that brought the sport into disrepute. "I think that racing in New Orleans will benefit the citv in nianv ways. It will encourage clean and honest sport, it will add to the attractions and amusements, and bring tourists by the thousands here each winter, and it will also tend to better the class of horses in general use. The race horse, as I said before, represents the highest in breeding, and is the first step to the high-class horse for the armv and all other purposes. "i am firmlv of the opinion that racing in New Orleans, with the backing it now has, should prove successful from the first. The purpose clearly is to avoid the violation of any law and to elevate the sport to the plane where it will be popular with all people. , "Racing is a great sport in Europe. I have visited all the tracks in the great continental cities, the class of people attending the meetings,, and figured that there was no reason why the sport in America should not be conducted in a like manner. The best people in Europe attend the races, and the best people in America attend them also, and under the plan as devised for New Orleans, I see no chance of the sport falling into disrepute, or proving objectionable to anyone. "I repeat, racing menus money to any community and, best of all, it established class in horses."
