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HURTS CANADIAN BREEDING INDUSTRY Thoroughbred Society in Annual Report Points Out the Dangers Because of Suspension of Racing Toronto Out February S At the annual mect ing of the Canadian Tliorrrtighbrwl IIorsi Society held here Monday a report presented by Secretary T J Macahi emphasized the danger to the breeding interests of Canada from even a temporary suspen ¬ sion of racing racingThe The report called attention to the figures covering the operations of the society which it was pointed out deflected a strong evidence of the effects of the great war on the thoroughbred industry of this country and now that the Dominion government has during the past year legislated against racing for the duration of the war the natural tendency on the part of breeders will be for the time being at any rate to refrain from adding to their studs by any increase in the number of broodmares broodmaresIn In fact some prominent breeders have been grad ¬ ually disposing of their brood stock for months past and abandoning entirely their interest in the indus ¬ try The feature of course is lamentable consid ¬ ering how much Canada in recent years has drawn the attention of other countries to our native stock and exporters have risked consignments of blood ¬ stock to be shipped in and disposed of to improve our native stock stockIn In view of the needs of the Hritish empire of Canada and of the whole world of the allies it was declared that the government should recognize the national importance of the breeders energies The report continues continuesIt It is agreed that there never was a time when the farmer and breeder needed so much encourage ¬ ment and financial assistance to speed up produc ¬ tion in everv branch of the agricultural business Englands stock of light horses for remount and sad ¬ dle purposes has been so depleted as well as the whole stock of Europe that these countries will cer ¬ tainly seek to replenish their stocks in the years succeeding the termination of the great war Cana ¬ das reputation is second to none as a country in which to find suitable material for this purpose and farmers and breeders should be encouraged
