No More Racing Charter Peddling, Daily Racing Form, 1916-01-18

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■0 MORE RACING CHARTER PEDDLING. Me— is. Chailes Millar and A. M. Orpen deny posi-tlveij thul lltere i- any truth in I In- -lory reported i run Chicago »r their interest in a proposed new lie course in the ieighlH.rlKK.il of Windsor, and Mr. Millar adds tiuti neither i- be Interested iu "Curly" Browns Havana ontcrpri.-o to the exlent of so much as live rents. The Rohi back -Hepburn combination made an effort to have the Dufferin Park charter transferred to Windsor. Mr. Orpen says, but the prop nanl rame t « nothing. It is a matter of fact. though, that land not tram from the Windsor Tunnel Ktatkai was Iraaid by parlies who boned to build a raee coarse I here, but have -.inc.- learned thai I here i- no possibility of operating a new track hi this province at the present time, no matter what sort af a ehwfhsr they may buy or revise. The charter-peddling business, so far as racing enterprises in Ontario are concerned, is definitely at an end. Another story which had considerable credence last fall was that the Thorncliffe Park charter was to be sold and removed to the Windsor neighborhood. Ilie .»uly apparent foundation for that re perl was the Ilicl thai Oino bam* *■ races were held al Thorn .•litre one Saturday. -Francis .wi-on in Toronto GlolK".


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