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0 e 11 a s e to ,, r i, e d d 1 n ;. s i- l] s i ,. I I I I I I • .e *" on n d as 5 •• d r- SEES OPPORTUNITY FOR CANADA. His rraee the Dnke of Portland. Iii 111 elf one of the greatest horse breeders of his time, and the richest of all times, ha- succeeded iii administering a stunning blow to horse racing iu England. Because the Bpsom Grandstand Company, foolishly and pre- maturely maybe, suggested that ■ certain portion might be reserved from military occupation, the dining room to wit. ho fell to writing letters to the Time-, which took the matter up iu a serious and weighty way. The result is that F.psoin. with its great das-ics. Roval Ascot and Ducal Cood- wood all have .been cut out. greatly to the -orrow probably of many wounded Canadians, who had hoped while convalescing to take in one ol these famous meeting. Of course, the plea is thai tho -port is too engrossing and diverts in a marked dell glee popular attention from the seriousness of t he task in hand. On the other hand relaxation helps us to bear the heat and burden of the heavier days. President Wilson and Lloyd George can golf amid all their tremendous cares. W. F. GtndstOSM could scathingly denounce Austria and then ex-I haii-i hi- superfluous energies by cutting down trees. which to him was the exercise that other men obtain by sport. Then again there is the tremendous injury that the suppression of racing will do to the hirst- industry. As to that, however. what is one nations misfortune is anothers oppor-a faulty. Ireland proposes to go on as usual and so does Australia. It will he their chance to buy extra good horses extra Cheap. Indeed the state of affairs oiler- an excellent opportunity to Canadians to club together and spend a hundred thousand or two in buying and importing sosse go..il sires and mares. We of a certainty need the latter, and the good that would follow would be immense. One of the main points in the situation Is th.it the sequence of the Derby and Oaks has been hr-ken. and. incidentallv . that tho Ontario Kings Plate i- mi the way towards becoming not only the eldest consecutive racing fixture in Amerli 1. but in the world. Not alme have the Epsom classics gone after their uninterrupted reign of J ",5 and 196 years, but the clebrated cup race- ol Ascot ami Goodwood have also disappeared. Their triumphs and their glories have departed. They. too. had lieen in evidence for a century, although it is interesting to call to mind that there was no race for th.- Goodwood Cup in 1S15 and from IfTfl to 1S21 Inclusive, and that the Ascot Gold 1 up wa- known from 1845 to 1853 as The Emperors Plate, hiving been redoaated by the owner of The Emperor, the winner in IM4. To Canadian and American thoroughbred lovers it i- also interesting to note that the great Gleneoe, the n-al monarch of the . inerb an Btndbook. not overlooking the claims of Lexington to thai distinction, won both these cups. — II. I. Good in Montreal Mail.
