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END OF CANADIAN RACING INQUIRY Broad Testimony of Secretary J. F. Ryan and Owner Lumsden at Ottawa. At the last session of Dr. Batberforda Loyal Coiiimi-sion on racing in Canada. .11 Ottawa, the ino-l important witness. John F. Ityaii. aeera- lary of the Canadian National Bareaa of Breeding, gave evidence about the necessity of breediag, and stated thai "The Paather" had recently been purchased by i he Argentine government for 50,000, the purpose being to improve the standard of breeding- Mr. Byan furnished test I ai nay as to racing iii New Zealand, Argentine, England. Frame and other roaatrics, ahawiag that in many places the state received a great deal of revenue froaa the racing : sMiciatiims. Mr. Kyan rahd a statemeiii from Field Marshal Haig. staling thai the thoraaghbrcd i .:- of great value for both army and agricultural puipo-os. .i.lding that the stamina i f General Al-h-i.bys mounts was chiefly responsible for his -net-- iii Palestine, where cavalry operations had caused the collapse of Turkish resistance. Tin war. he said, had brought home the fact that theraagh-bred hn i ding wa- absolutely haperative. The cm-■ I iiiagciio-nt of the breediag be roasldered waa g«w i n iin-iit bashiesa. He ihoughi the g« maai .t should lake a percentage froaa the racias association- ami apply ii to the breediag bnreaaa. lie thought the legal form of betting mach naperior. A sialemi nt was made by John I.imsdcn of titi.iwa to the effect that tbe closing np of race track* in Canada bad discouraged him from breeding thoroughbreds in the Itominioii. Another feature of the hearing was the view of Inspector Mi Kinney of the Toronto police force morality depart-in lit that race track Ix-iliut; wa- responsible for Klurtiag young aaea along the path of gambling. The general caaeeasaa •; opiaioa appeared to be thai racing was not to be discouraged, but several witnesses wen- of the opinion that race tracks might he successfully operated by aaeaaa of governaaenl n mm stance. Coioml Perry, coanraisskmer of the Royal Caaa-•iian Mounted Police, -tai.-d thai he was haviag tbe -re.ite-t difficulty in getting suitibh- mounts for his men. In fact, it was bapossihle to get mare than a small percentage of the kind of hor-c- re- i aired by the force. The thoroughbred horse* combined the qualities reqaircd for scoatiag and fight-lag pii.po-c-. and wa- absolutely necessary to the i reeding at good horses. a
