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THAT DUFFERIN -WINDSOR PROJECT. Where the honey is the flies will lie found, and the reported transfer of tin- activities of the Duffcrin Park interests to a new race course to be built near Windsor is a joint consequence of the reported tremendous success of the Windsor Jockey Clubs meeting last summer and of the approaching lean times for the half -milers and the syndicate rings. The growing distrust of the latter, and the heavy taxation of an enterprise which has practically no gate money, gave rise to the need of seeking out a new location and none looked so promising as the Windsor field. The project opens up several interesting considerations and will hardly be accomplished without overcoming some legal obstacles involved in the transfer of the operations of the local organization to a new locality. If this may lie done in one case, it will become a question if it cannot Ik- done every year and so keep moving until the whole country is covered in turn. Toronto feeling will no doubt 1m- one of gratitude to In- rid of ■ menace to the well living of the turf, an.l the passing of the half-mile tracks, with their syndicate rings and their swarm of unfortunate owners whose horses are in pledge to the managers of those rings, marks a step in the right direction. What Windsor will say to the necessity of a second track in that locality is quite another aCair. — Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe.
