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WAGERING IN DOMINION DROPS Canadian Report Shows Difference of Fourteen Per Cent. Toronto Tracks Fare Best in Neighboring Country Racing Days Total Three Hundred and Twenty-Eight. TORONTO, Ont., Oct. 28. The annual report of the Department of Agriculture, at Ottawa, just issued, shows that betting throughout the Dominion of Canada during 1932 dropped off fourteen per cent as compared with the figures for last year, the respective totals being 8,683,682 and 3,-377,786 and there were two more days of racing this year, 328 as compared to 326 last year. With the exception of Thorncliffe Park in Toronto, the decrease was general throughout the country, though there was an encouraging increase noted at several of the fall meetings, but not enough to make up for the spring deficits. Dufferin Park and Long Branch, in Toronto, showed increases in the fall over the spring figures, also Kenilworth Park, in Windsor, and Whittier Park, in Winnipeg. All in all, the situation is most gratifying in Toronto, but the same can scarcely be said about other centers of the sport in the Dominion. Delorimiers closing accounts for the considerable drop in returns from the Quebec sector. Niagara Falls staged two meetings this year, whereas there was only one last season and there were six days of racing at Regina, where no meeting had been held heretofore, also three extra days at Hastings Park, Vancouver, and one extra day at Victoria Park, Calgary, and Colwood Park, Victoria, B. C. Betting figures for 1932 show the following cities in order of importance as rac- ing centers: Toronto, 0,885,904; Windsor, Ont., ,122,576; Winnipeg, Man., ,472,246; Montreal, Que., ,431,531; Vancouver, B. C, ,344,098; Hamilton, Ont, ,809,304; Fort Erie, Ont., ,644,329; Niagara Falls, ,311,-354; Calgary, Alta., 27,369; Ottawa; Ont., 49,706; Victoria, B. C, 32,779; Edmonton, Alta., 47,227; Regina, Sask., 90,124; Saskatoon, Sask., 75,316. Betting in Quebec dropped thirty-nine pec cent from last years total, but there were fourteen- days less racing this year. The figures are: 1932, ,181,257; 1931, ,237,716. The decrease for the nine tracks in the Province of Ontario was only six per cent, the total 8,773,467, as compared with 0,-009.700 in 1931.
