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DEVONSHIRE AND DORYAL Thoroughbred Horsemens Asso sociation Options Two Tracks Havre de Grace Pattern to Be Befollowed followed Over Two Minor MinorCanadian Canadian Courses BY ED COLE COLESARATOGA SARATOGA SPRINGS N Y August 5 There is every reason to believe that tlie Thoroughbred Horsemens Association will dictate the control of three tracks in the near future Already the organizations chosen people Iiold the majority of stock In the Havre de Grace Maryland course and within the next few hours It may take up options on Devonshire Park opposite Detroit and Dorval in the Montreal district two Canadian institutions The deal for the Devonshire track is reported to have been completed and the first payment of 35000 made Devonshire Park is built on leased property with many years to run while Dorval is owned by the people who built and organized it Both are good race tracks Devonshires estab ¬ lishment is shabby and cheap It was reared in a hurry by the troublesome Grant Hugh Browne purely on the getrichquick plan and for the pnr pose of getting into the rich Detroit zone of racing when tUfrracing ii tlit o eTva ut Itshigh point 1 before the war It was first opened September 30 1910 1910DOHVAL DOHVAL ESTABLISHMENT A GOOD ONE ONEThe The Dorval establishment is much the better of the two It is uptodate in many ways and its past racing and reputation has been good Francis Nelson presided Joseph A Murphy was steward there and A B Dade and Jim Milton did the start Ing and Joe McLennan was the secretary at its meetings The Dorval track really began with a Jive days experimental meeting in the fall of 1913 luit its real beginning was on June S 1914 and it ran on with two meetings yearly under the Miller law until the Canadian government stopped racing in 1917 June 13 1914 Dorval made its bid for racing prominence witii its 20000 International Derby which David Craig won Dorvals reputation as a racing organization and its establishment is far and away better than Devonshires DevonshiresThe The amounts to be paid for the two institutions Is not yet public property though there is every issuranee gathered from authoritative sources that Uiey will eventually be turned over to folks chosen y the organization and in accord with its plans in the race track line lineAccording According to reports there will be a revolution in the conduct of race courses by the new holders if the sales are made which will be of great importance to owners breeders and the public publicMORE MORE PROFIT SCHEME FOR BREEDERS BREEDERSA A tentative program intimates that stockholders vrlH be limited In dividends and that every breeder iv HI possibly share in the winnings of all horses lired by the individual by taking a percentage of the purse or stake This system is already moder ¬ ately in vogue over some of the larger stakes but the rule is to lw made general Many other rules Jire to be inaugurated which will dignify and per ¬ petuate tin turf and free it from the attacks of l olltics and the professional reform element elementIt It is said here that while controlling interest in the tracks under discussion will be held by the Horsemens Association the stock will be dis ¬ tributed as has been done by the organization in Kentucky Mary landers for instance will be offered stock in Havre de Grace and it is said that the stock in Devonshire and Dorval will be at the Usposal of the Canadians the Horsemens Associa ¬ tion only acting as the foundation for the enter ¬ prises and holding no stock in any of them as an organization though its members are eligible as stockholders if tjiey as individuals elect to so liecome
