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SEAGRAM HORSES GOING TO MARYLAND President of Ontario Jockey Club to Be Kepresentcd by String of Fifteen Thoroughbreds Toronto Out September 18 The approaching de ¬ parture of the horses of J E Seagram of Waterloo for the Maryland autumn meetings is a mark of the new conditions resulting from the suspension of racing in Canada For more than ten years or ever since the opportunity was offered for a years racing in Canada the stable of the president of the Ontario Jockey Club has confined its activities to tliis country countryThe The contingent for Maryland will number alxnit fourteen all of their owners breeding and includ ¬ ing eight or nine twoyearolds The youngsters in the absence of opportunity for public competition at home are all of unknown calibre but are well bred well developed and welltried iu private Trainer W Bringloe who has been with the Sea ¬ gram stable for many years in various capacities continues in charge of tiie racing string stringIn In spite of the stories which achieve occasional circulation as to the prospects of the revival of racing iu Canada there is every reason to bilieve that the matter has never occupied a moment of the government consideration since the action was taken which resulted in the closing of the race courses after the first round of meetings In 1017 Whatever representations have been made at Ottawa in the meantime have been from a quarter which the government could not possibly recognize as speaking for any sound public opinion or being actuated in any way by desire for the real welfare of tlie turf turfThough Though the late John IJoss Robertson publisher philanthropist and sportsman had no particular affiliations with the turf his death means the ces ¬ sation of an enterprise which would have added a most interesting chapter to the racing archives of Canada CanadaMr Mr Kobertsons taste for the preservation of me ¬ morials of the early history of Toronto and Outaria did not confine itself to the labors by which he enriched the community through gifts of artistic and literary collections to the public library the possessor of a most valuable collection of pictures of the birds of Ontaria painted by William Pope a naturalist and artist of renown and which he pre ¬ sented to the municipal art gallery galleryA A member of the Ontario Jockey Club practically since its organization he was naturally interested in the running of tin Plate his recollection of which went back ti its beginning on the longfor ¬ gotten Carlton track in West Toronto in 1860 It was long his aim to gather a collection of pictures of the winners of the Plate and some time beforu his death lie had made a beginning of the work which was to be directed by the wellknown artist Owen Staples
