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REVIEW OF CANADIAN SPORT Familiar Names Head List of Leaders Seagram Stable Again Leads Winning Owners. The well standardized racing of the Canadian dominion went along serenely during the year 1931, showing only a slight falling off in interest and financial welfare from previous seasons. Familiar names head the list of leaders. The Seagram Stable, the almost perpetual pace-setter since the days of Commander J. K. L. Ross, more than doubled the winnings of any other stable, and next in line came J. E. Smallman, H. G. Bedwell, H. C. Hatch, R. W. R. Cowie, R. H. New and the Thorncliffe Stable, all habitually prominent factors in Canadian racing. Seagram won fifty-eight races, Smallman forty-two and Bedwell thirty-six. Seagrams total was 3,110, Smallmans 3,880 and Bedwells 1,365. But it was R. W. R. Cowies three-year-old son of Cudgel, Froth Blower, which led the stake winners. He won only three races, but these combined were worth 4,040. The prizes in Canada were fairly well distributed, for only two other horses won in excess of 0,000. Two of these were from the United States Frisius, of the Belair Stud, and A. C. Bostwicks Mate. Frisius won the King Edward Gold Cup Handicap and the Toronto Cup Handicap. Mate stepped across the border for only one triumph, the Stanley Produce Stakes, which he won with nearly a dozen lengths to spare. Gay Parisian, racing for J. E. Smallman and the Erindale Stable, was again one of the busiest campaigners in Canada and he won more races than any other horse among the ten money leaders, accounting for eleven and a money total of ,925. C. Ralls was the leading jockey with eighty-six victories and an average of .22. He was slightly outpointed in the latter respect by W. Mills, who won sixty-five race3 for a point average of .25. The success of the Seagram Stable was likewise the success of the stables chief trainer, W. H. Bringloe, who saddled forty-two winners, ,a few more than H. Giddings Jr., who sent thirty-nine to the post. H. G. Bedwell is credited with saddling thirty-one of his thirty-six winners. Form was well preserved through tha most important meetings in Canada. Fifty-one percent of the winning first choices .were successful in the first meeting at Woodbine Park and fifty-one percent in the second. Forty-three percent of the favorites won during the first meeting at Thorncliffe. Tha same was the record of the Fort Erie second meeting. Blue Bonnets, in its second meeting, reached the high mark of .57. The percentage of winning favorites at all the tracks in Canada was .37. The money distribution was just a little off at all tracks. The Ontario Jockey Club distributed 84,910, as against 34,415 in 1930. Three other associations disbursed more than 00,000 each. At Woodbine Park the daily average was 3,207, as against 6,743 the year before. This was the highest by several thousand dollars, but tha daily average of four other associations went over ,000.
