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Here andThere on the Turf Canadian Racing Victory Wagering in Louisiana QualHy of Silver Fox Livingstons Hard Luck It was a decided victory for racing that was scored in Ottawa Tuesday when the Senate committee on the criminal code amend ¬ ments killed the clause that sought to put an end to the publishing of racing news in Can ¬ ada There have been other occasions when like legislation has failed but from time to time the effort is made to throttle the press in this particular and it is always cheering when the lawmakers are not carried away by this clamor clamorThe The bill was so manifestly unjust that there was little serious suppcrt for it among thinking people and its disposition was more or less expected but at ihz same time to have the codes committee strike it out completely is to be commended commendedUnder Under the provisions of the proposed law it would have been impossible to send a news ¬ paper into Canada that carried racing reports or published lists of entries This was properly considered as an altogether unwarranted throt ¬ tling of the press and it is no wonder when the bill came up for discussion that it should have failed to pass the committee JVith the elimination of this prohibitory clause the law remains unchanged as far as the publication of racing news is concerned concernedNo No sport is more depsndent for its success on publicity than racing and no sport brings a better return to the Canadian government In fact racing stands along not only in Can ¬ ada but everywhere else where it is legalized and licensed for its revenue to the govern ¬ ment In Maryland and Kentucky the state revenue from racing is an important item In New York it has not the same importance for there parimutuels are not employed and the state is denied the tax that comes from specu ¬ lation But in New York there has always been a revenue of great importance in the richly bred stallions that have been from tune to time donated to the government far army breeding purposes Racing has ever had a much wider import ¬ ance than an amusement and a sport and this importance should earn for it a greater con ¬ sideration than is accorded by the lawmakers of some communities Edward R Bradley one of the principal owners of the Fair Grounds race course at New Orleans has intimated that there will be a new method of speculation employed at the next New Orleans mesting In other words a system closely resembling the parimutuels will be put in operation rather than the oral system of wagering that has been the custom since the passing of the Lccke law lawThis This announcement came following a de ¬ cision of the state supreme court that the method recently tested at a race meeting at Donaldsonville was within the law This inset ing was conducted for the purpose of testing the law and after obtaining a favorable de ¬ cision in the lower court the case was taken to the state supreme court where six of the seven justices sitting upheld the lower court courtIt It was this thorough test of the law that prompted Mr Bradley to announce that the Fair Grounds would be operated on tha co operative pool method as it has been called This is a system that closely resembles the parimutuel system for the racing association merely becomes the stakeholder of the moneys wagered and for so acting it takes 5 per cent of that money moneyWhat What is of the greatest importance is to have adefinite system that has been declared entirely lawful by the highest court in the state That gives the racing associations a confidence that makes possible the planning of bigger things for the turf and already many elaborate plans liave been made for the Fair Grounds There was a considerable amount of money expended for the last meeting of the associa ¬ tion but much more will be expended before the opening of the next meeting and it is also promised that there will be some material in ¬ creases hi the money for the horses horsesThere There was a wide difference of opinion on just how Silver Fox defeated Swope at Aque duct Tuesday in the first running of the Shevlin Stakes There were those and some of them good judges who considered that the gray colt was doing his best at the end to beat Bud Fishers colt a half length Others were of the opinion that Silver Fox had merely shown a disposition to loaf in the stretch and that he had speed in reserve at the end They also contend that Silver Fox would have beaten Swope over any distance and that had he been shaken up earlier he would have won by a much wider margin marginIf If the contention of those who considered Silver Fox as doing his best is the correct estimate qf the face then Swope would be a much more attractive eligibh to the Latonia Derby Swope was conceding three pounds to Silver Fox and if the gray was doing his best he hardly gave Swope a three pounds beating But it is doubtful if Silver Fox was doing his best He had been going along under wraps in the Shevlin Stakes and Fator had not asked him to run That induced loafing and in the stretch though going easily he shortened his stride What made it doubly apparent that it was only a case of loafing was the manner in which the son of Grey Fox II came away from the whip when he was called on by Fator He did not act like a jaded colt when struck with the whip whipIn In any event Swope qualified for the Latonia Derby and if he should come back with as good a race next Saturday Alex Gordon will not have his shipment to the Kentucky track for nothing Jefferscn Livingston has had more than his share of ill fortune when it became impossible to start Son of John in the Latonia Derby On his showing in the Kentucky Derby as well as on olher occasions this colt loomed up as a particularly daugerus contender for the big mile and a half race and his engagement itf that race had much to do with his value when he was purchased Son of John is suffering from a spread foot and it has been decided to have him join tbj New York division of the stable that is trained by John Schorr If Schorr can bring him back to the races in a reasonable time he wffl ba a valuable addition to the threeyearold divi ¬ sion on the New York circuit
