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HUGE CANADIAN DAILY TAX PROPOSED Would Be Prohibitive of Racing if Enacted Into a Law Without Reduction TORONTO Out April It is doubtful if any budget brought down by the government has created sucji a stir as the recent one by tho legislature to tax tlio race tracks 1000 a day or an increase of S7 0 over the former mark Npt only those connected with race tracks but men prominent in all pursuits of life were loud In their denuncia ¬ tion of such an excessive tax more especially coming right after tho associations had been two years idle owing the order in council councilli li regard to tho halfmile tax of 000 per day tho Metropolitan Racing Association which operated at Dufferin Park stated yesterday that this tax would stop them from racing racingSecretary Secretary W P Fraser of the Ontario Jockey Club made the following statement yesterday When the statement of January 1 was made by the government that they had withdrawn the order in council under which racing ceased on August 1 1017 the Ontario Jockey Club proceeded wltli its plans for its spring meeting The Kings Plate which closed on March 1 has a record entry with fortynine nominations The conditions of Its stakes which will close on Wednesday May and which include the 10000 Toronto Cup are already in the hands of horsemen Overnight purses In ¬ cluded in its program of 80000 for the coining spring meeting have also been arranged and the conditions are in print Contracts have been let and engagements entered Into and horsemen are busy with their horses actively preparing and looking forward to a resumption of racing after an interval of three years The tax of 10000 per day for mile tracks under which heading the On ¬ tario Jockey Club will come is a prohibitive one AVhit action the directors of the Ontario Jockey Club will take I am unable to state at the present time
