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, i DORMANT RACING CHARTERS IN CANADA. Relative to my recent note to the effect that there were only two Dominion racing charters not at present lieing exercised I am told I am s bit astray and that, as a matter of fact, there are several others in abeyance. One. my informant states, authorizes the establishment of a track at Windsor. Ont., and it was this that Mr. Rohrliark. recent manager of Connaught Park, Ottawa, and frieuds were after. They, however, barked up the wrong tree for they came into conflict with extra powerful interests in the Hendrie interests at that point and it did not take them long to ascertain that buying a charter and putting it into force were two rather different things, for the Ontario government had to be dealt with and the tithe of o a day represented only a fraction of the trouble they would lie up against if they persisted. Then there is a charter, so my informant states, and he is well up in such things, that authorizes the establishment of a chain of race tracks. This, in fact, lie says is the most wholesale charter connected with racing that was ever granted. Anyway, it is probable that everyliody will agree, that no matter how many charters there may lie getting mildewed in pigeon- holes, there are just now quite enough in operation. All the mile tracks, it seems likely will have mutuel machines in action next year. 1 have a letter before me from Hamilton which says: "We are busy erecting a building for the mutuel machines which we intend to install next season. We are putting them in on a rather elaborate scale at a cost of 5,000. We expect to have the best plant in Canada with the possible exception of Windsor. The executives are united in the opinion that the mutnels are the only system for speculation and we •would like to see the criminal code amended in such manner as to provide that it would be the only system of wagering that could lie employed on race tracks. It would undoubtedly l e in the interest of racing and of the thoroughbred horse industry, o which the war in Europe is liouml to give a ureat fillip. There are many arguments in favor of the mutnels. the principal of winch is the loppicg off of an undesirable element." — II. P. Good in M treal Mail.
