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THINKS CANADIAN PRACTICE SUPERIOR. few fields of systematic action have any real need of much change in such regulations as have governed them for any considerable period of time. The chief need of sport, at least, is for the correct and universal application of the existing rules. rather than the invention of new provisions. The new selling race rules at Bowie have in no manner accomplished the end which their manufacturers hoped for, and there lias been no discouragement or lessening of the bidding up of winners. One man has bid up ten horses in fifteen races and is still going. Pimlico has yet another experiment to be tried out at the meeting next month, under which winners as well as beaten horses may be claimed, but only by the owners in the same race. The correct and common sense rule in such cases is the Canadian practice, which permits claims by all persons not in bad standing, whether owners or not. The reason for giving half of the advance in runup to the clubs exists no longer, if it ever did have a sound foundation, and that portion should not he retained, but the claiming rule in force in Canada is immeasurably better than the New York limitation. In fact, in every point of difference between the codes, the superiority in all practical affairs of race control lies with the rules in force in Canada and the west. — Francis Nelson in Toronto Glandbo.
