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MUTUELS WELL ACCEPTED AT FORT ERIE. The display of enthusiasm, the running of the Derby ami the general eharacti t at the racing of Saturday holds forth promise that the first summer [ meeting across the river is destined to live up to all the slowing predictions made for it. There are plenty ol good horses in the Fort Brie ham-, they are afforded abundant opportunity to run and the disposition appears to be to raa them. The public, given its tiist trial at the pari-mutuel machines at . Fort Brie, accepted the innovation favorably. There .seems to lie little doulii that the public approval which lias followed the Introduction of this system ! ol betting at the upper Canada tracks will be shared locally. There has been sach a healthy awakening ; in America of late over racing and the horse in gea-eral thai many observers are Inclined to the belief f that his day is returning in earnest and that he will 1 regain In the affections of the nations sportsmen much of the prestige which failed him during the days of loose itovernment and hostile legislation. — - V. Horace l.erch in Buffalo Express.
