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CONFLICTING INTERESTS IN CANADA. It is not to be reasonably expected that, having framed a schedule for the coming season, with the desirability of avoiding conflicting dates as a dominating influence, the Canadian Racing Associations will agree to an alteration that will enable the Dor-val Jockey Club to race with their sanction on a day when there is also racing at Woodbine. Nor is it reasonable to expect that the Woodbine people would agree to such a change. It has. however, been proposed by Dorval. and it is announced that the change has been definitely decided upon by the Montreal club. This action is possibly an outcome of the reported alliance between the numerous in-dei»endent and half-mile tracks in that neighborhood and Dorval, though Delorimier Park has already claimed May 27 as one of its racing dates, Montreal lias so many of these institutions, and they are in the hands of so many promoters who have no real interest in the turf, in sport, or in Canada, except to exploit the possibilities of the Canadian public. that it will not be surprising if they eventually kill their own game. An Ottawa special to the Globe says that the Connauglit Park Jockey Club directors, whose property is situated on the Quebec side of the Ottawa river, were approached on behalf of the project for a combination of the Montreal tracks, other than Plue Bonnets, with which went the story that there was assurance of a provincial commission to control racing in Quebec. The Toronto half-mile tracks were to lie left out of consideration and would have to race, if they wanted clear time, on whatever dates were not taken by the eastern tracks. Ottawa sentiment, however, is positively against any affiliation witli or encouragement of the "bull-ring" tracks and syndicate rings that have done so much to bring racing into disrepute in Montreal. Con-naught Park could gain nothing by entering such company, but would lose the support of the most desirable of the local element. It aims to be in the first class, and to get as far away as possible from the second-raters. Its program this year is designed for the encouragement of good horses, not for the fivc-furlong kind that constitutes the material of the half -milers. And it is meant for a permanent institution, having nothing in common with tin- mushroom enterprises and vagrant promoters that afflict the sport in Montreal. — Francis Nelson in Toronto Olobe.
