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FAIR TRIAL FOR NEW TWO-YEAR-OLD RULE. Measure Entitled to Thorough Test in View of Its Promise for General Good. As the age of a thoroughbred horse is calculated from the first of January in the year in which he is foaled, all of the 1910 yearlings are now ranked as two-year-olds, and the opportunity arrives for racing by those that are not intended to be kept for engagements in the territories governed by the Canadian Racing Associations, Jockey Club and Kentucky Racing Commission regulations. It is in these regions that the most valuable purses are oflered and the best horses seen in action. Some owners will undoubtedly accept the penalty of exclusion from these regions for a season for their youngsters, but we may be sure the risk will not be taken with those they think most of. So long as the rule refusing the entry during their two-year old year of horses that have raced prior to April 1 is on the books it will be pretty generally observed. No sound reason could be advanced for the early racing of two-year-olds; in fact, so fur as its effect on the animal concerned, none but u negative reason has ever been offered. Breeders and owners seeking increased prices and early returns for their investments naturally are imt pleased with the application of the first practical and presumably effective regulation on the subject. Program -makers at winter meetings who would have one event taken away from their material every day. and racecourse managers who would find much of their stabling taken up by horses not meant to race till spring, likewise find the regulation irksome, but horsemen are coming generally to not only accept but to express the view that the measure is entitled to a fair trial, in view of its promise for the general good of breeding. — Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe.
