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we are glad to have e letter such as the following: "We still take the Charlottetown Guardian and mi looking forward with interest in your Annual Review of Harness ngcing in the Meritimes. As you

bly know. harness racing is not a. very flourishing sport in St. John's. However. there are quite a few enthusiastic followers such as John O'Driscoll, Harry Bugden. prod Wiley, Willis Reid. his son oherlie end others.

”Our fastest harness horse of 1054. John D.. is now owned by Stdneystead. a druggist in Char- lottetown; and I believe you will be interested in the attached pic- ture which was clipped from the morning newspaper. our friend John O'Driscoll takes as keen an interest in the racing as ever Ind often refers to events that took place at Old Home Week. Char- lottetown. I Llnderstand that char- lottetown is planning a wonderful program for the Centennial Year. If all goes well my wife and I and the boys hope to get over for a few days this summer." Thanks. Gordon. Ior again remembering us and also for the picture of John D. which carries this note...”Wlllis Reid's John D. won the harness racing championship of Newfound- land during the 1954 season when he captured top lionours at the Bella Vista Fair Grounds turf classics. With Willis Reid in the sulky John D. is admired by James Butler. Newfoundland I-lorsemenm Association secretary, left, and John D. O'Driscoll.presidcnt, right.)

Harness racing is at it coinpletel standstill at present all over thel United btates and Canada. in fact all over North America with the exception of Duiferin Track. Tor- onto, which has been holding har- ness races for upviards of 30 years, commencing in the late fall and rmiitinuing until March, and Hall- f.ix Raceway. Ltd. where races are conducted on their three-eighths of a mile track from late October in early in May. VA peculiar thing about the Duflcrin track is that it is situated almost in the heart of Toronto. We remember taking a taxi from the Royal York Hotel and arriving at the track. even with some iiitcriuptlons, in slightly over ten minutes. There will be found drivers from the Marltimes. Ontario. Quebec and Western Can- eda, also from various points in the U. S. A.

Four hundred horses can be ac- commodated at Dufferiii and some 500 others are at the nearby Long Branch race course. The applica- tions for stalls this year were so heavy that 400 had to be refused. Over it rain snow or ice, scheduled events are run off with the gate. Perhaps one day it will be three or four inches of mud. the next day fronen quite hard and now they will be racing over ice or pos- llbly ynow covered ice. When the season gets colder and the ice is really hard the usual practice in the past was to equip the horses with Russian saw shoes. The price in those days was 314 a set, but now we presume they would cost et least :26 a set. some of the drivers may just use the new-fan- glcd cnlks that are fitted Into the shoes. but the saw shoes are much safer on ice as they take an extra good grip when kept filed sharp.

There are no pari-mutuels et

Dufferin. Instead there is a large betting shed under the grand stand. comfortably heated a n d

there from six to ten bookies are in operation. The odds are kept posted continuously over the book- fee" stand and many people prefer that system to the pari-mutuels. Bettors come from all over Ontario end Quebec and in the morning they usually look over the horses or chat with the drivers and at noon can get a good dinner-or at least they could a few years ego- for fifty cents. Among the well- luiown drivers there ere Rennie MacDonald of Sydney with the Harry Hirsch stable. Worrell Lewis and Del Msdrevish. In recent eummeries we notice Ronnie win- ning the BB Trot. purse seen, with Clean Up in 2.18 ays; Del MeicTav- ieh winning the Junior Free For All Trot with Bob Lybrook in 2.11 3 5. Worrell winning a dash in e 3! Pace with Ohio Hel snd second in the 00 pace with Jenny Lynn. or course they have won Inna more firsts end placinge with other horses hi their eteblee.

We do indebted to our friend 07111 1.. Deuphlnee. eecretery of the Hell-fex Harness Horse Club. Helifel, N. 3.. for summaries of seeing them. On January 1st in the Class A Face. Gerdlnelh Echo. owned and driven by Wilfred Baker. De.rt.mout.l1. was I-1-ii; Gel- lent Bobby. owned by 0.1.. Deuph- lnee and driven by C. Connors. 1- 7-0 end Joeedele Clensmnn. owned and driven by Don Turner. 7-4-1. Time: .50: .61; .10. In the Class 3 Pace Nova 0.. owned and driven by boat: weeks was 1-ii-1; Dudy Dudlong, owned by W. shes, Pic- tuo end driven by P. Baxter. 4-1-4. belt Ime .50 lfi in the first duh. hIseOleeeOTrotend Paoe nus- UVII. owned end driven by George 'nirner. won all three heats in In seconds each trip. In the Class D Trot Ind Pace ills. tmtter Oinbulend Scott. owned by B. Ponder. nelifex. end drivel: by C. Connors was 1-1-Ill: Little Mex. owned by Dr. J.A. Doihehoe. Tnii-o, and driven by R. Jenes. wee 'l-7-ii best umedlll in the second this. no Hall as club with sec- rdery Deuphlnes and an excellent nee committee bee done wonders in affording opportunities for hor- Iat in that vicinity to earn money

during In on-eeeeon months. A

lthat

they paid out e total of t1l.'l'ls.1l last year. which is certainly not small change.

500 Hushel. rilht-hand men for the great entertainment concern of George A. Hamid dz Ben. 10 Rocks- feller Plaza. New York. is s visitor here in connection with the Gen- tennial celebration and Old Home Week. The Hamid firm is the largestlof its kind in the world with branches in the principal Eu- ropean centres and every year Mr. Hamid and son visit Europe and look over hundreds of acts and select ones that they believe will be attractive to their patrons. Ever since the Provincial Exhibition As- sociation wmmenced to use acts in connection with its annual Fair George A. Hamid has supplied the majority of them. and he also sup- plies nearly all the fairs in East- ern Canada. Quebec and of course throughout the United states. The firm otto is, once a customer al- ways a customer. and the writer cannot speak too highly of the splendid treatment accorded us during our connection with the Provincial Exhibition and Old Home week. Mr. Hughes not only can provide the entertainment but is also an'excellent master of cere- monies and we have seen him sev- eral times in that capacity intro- ducing acts at the Fredericton Ex- hibition. He has not visited here for many years but remembers such leading citizens as the late Charles Smallwood. secretary of the Exhibition. D. O. M. Reddin and George Reddin and many oth- ers. His mc'nory for detail is really wonderful and he can quote acts appeared here thirty years ago. An old time crony of his is Henry Gaudet of Summerside, whom he met some 35 years ago. We hope that this wlu not be Mr. 1-lughes' last visit and that he will make it an annual one.

We were pleased to have I. let- ter from our friend Marshall Go- vang of Saint John, N. B.. who is a. very capable horseman and splendid man in every way. He states that there are 45 horses win- tering in saint John and among them are several good trotters pur. chased at recent sales and that will make nice trotting classes for 1955. He is wintering Bye For Now 2.l.'i V5. winner of seven dashes in -taint John last year and there- fore s trotter that can be classed as mighty good. we may mention also that the Saint John track has been entirely resurfaced and the first turn built up and the expect- ations are that next season it will be two or three seconds faster and on a par with fastest Maritime ovals. other plans envision a much larger Exhibition in succeed- ing years than in the past. The mlnlsement of Saint John Race- wiiy and Exhibition are certainly farseelng and enterprising men who are going to place racing fgci. litles on ii par with the best.

In the poll for harness horse of the year conducted by the Cans- dian Sportsman, horsemen in Que- bec picked H. 8. Chief 1.58 3 5. the 8-year-old son of Chief Abbedale as the horse of the year in their province. He is owned by Joseph Ceuchon of Quebec City and the gelding pacer won 22 races in 34 starts. Prior to his purchase by Mr. lcauchon in 1953. I-LB. Chief won a race at Lexington and equalled Prince Jeyls worldis rec- ord of 1.5!! M5 for gelding pacers.

Horsemen and fans in the cone- dlen west picked Eddie Riggs as Western Canada harness horse of the year. He was the winner of 24 of his 29 races in 1964 and is e '1- year-oid son of Tommy Riggs out of Distant Worthy and is owned by Eddie buts of Mlstemin. Sask.

The popularity of night racing hes intrigued harness horsemen in the west and it is expectzd that night racing will be in full swing in Winnipeg. Vancouver end ni- momton either this year or in 1966. Years ego greet pscere came out of the West. then harness rlclng

sluice at our Review shows thetlseemed to die of! but it is now

having a big revival end it is a sure thing that if night racing comes in that revival will be great- ly accelerated.

We regret to learn of ,the illness in the Charlottetown Hospital 05 the Rev. W. E. Monagnen or Al- berton. who bu been one of the -bright mainstays or harness racing in this province for years. No meeting was the same if "Father willle" was not present and his good humour at all times was in- fectlous and endeared him to thousands who can call him friend. Just in the int few days we have heard many persons expressing the hope that his health will improve and that he will be around again with us when the racing season commences.

Ws' have the pleasure of e re- membrance from our friend W. Annett of Gaspe. Que. who was manager of the Bank of Toronto there for years and is now re- tired. Mr. Annett has always taken a great interest in harness racing and owned horses himself until a year or so ago. some years ago he paid a visit here and enjoyed the racing very much and we hope that he will be able to returnagain and see the big Old Home Week of .1955. I i

Ingham Palmer's racing com- ments from station CKCL at Truro has helped materially to in- crease interest in the sport not only in that locality but also in other parts of N.s., N.B. and P. E.I. A letter from Ingham has LIIC following in part:-"I enjoyed your Review in the Guardian very much and took the liberty of us- ing leatures of it for a few of our sportscasts. I was very sorry to hear of the death of Dr. Dougan. It was by listening to him at Charlottetown that I learned to handle e race meet. Things are pretty well at a standstill at the track. Was visiting Clayton. Mac- Leod last Monday night and look- ed over his horses. He has four in his barn at Westville. They are Judge Miller 2.(Y1. Miss Cherry Val- ley 2.10 U5. David G. 2.1!. and Dr. F. Chips 2.15 U5. Plans are being made 'for the annual International Ice Meet at Dartmouth and dates have been set for February 12 and 13. which of course will depend on the weather. It is also hoped that they might stretch it into a three-

the 14th. If I can arrange for time off at CKCL I will be going down to handle the announcing duties." Thanks. Ingham, and best of success for 1955.

Officials of the Victoria Driving Club who have been looking over the recently created pond north oi" the new causeway at North River some days ago, found it frozen quite hard with a splendid sheet of ice. and they claim it will be ideal for putting on ice race meets when the cold weather arrives later on. They think it should be named the Hon. Dugald MacKin- non Raceway. and it certainly would be very fitting because the Honorable Dugald takes a great interest in horse racing and is the owner of Colonel Budlong, that won six dashes and took a record of 2.18 15 last year with pilot Alfred Lowery in the driver's seat.

Clarence Wood has just returned from a two-weeks' visit to Toronto. Hamilton. also Niagara Falls. where he said the Falls were magnificent, he never saw anything to compare with them in his life end it was well worth I. visit Just to see them. He then went to Toronto and look- ed up friends at Dufferin Race Track where 400 horses are stabled with the OVEYIIOW at long Branch race track. He saw two afternoon's racing and the first afternoon they raced through several inches of mud. but the next afternoon it was partly frozen and they all went at it hammer and tongs. He was a very excited man in the fourth reoe when Crusader Chief: came under the wire in 2.11 Na and was

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Hunters Corner up -IlA'9AlWi1y5I and gravel rule are generally ACDI. iiee oi snow and road machines aie at work eiter every severe storm to keep high- ways ciear. sods, gravel and may are often scooped up by the power- lui blades. . The winter aforementioned was pretty gum and i have since wond- ered how any ifuns survived ai. ail. even with the min given them by iarmeis and other country oweilere. The iii-st snowiall came that year on November 3rd (1933). turned to slush, end then froze solid leav- mg the ground surface, almost without. exception, encased in a coating of ice. Storm after storm followed until snow lay feet deep on the level with several layers of crust interspersed in between. The covey's repaired to grain stacks and manure piles and tanked up on coarse grains. Unable to see- ure sufficient grit. coarse gravel and sand that act as teeth. they became crop-bound and died off likelflles. I have picked up dead birds that were nothing but bund- les of skin. bone and feathers and yet their crops were bursting with wheat. oats and barley. It was esti- mated we lost 8599 of our Huns that winter but that's ancient his- tory at this date.

This'columnist is not anticipat- ing even a near repetition of what happened in the winter of 1933-34, as our Hubs and pheasants have learned a lot of new wrinkles in the art of survival when the going gets tough but - we could have far less 1-luns in the spring then we have at present. If the snow, thaw, freeze weather continues during January our Huns and pheasants will definitely have to tigihten their belts and live on short rations.

The trapping season on mink, muskrat and beaver closed on Dec- ember 31st although beaver may still be trapped under special per- mit if proof is furnished they are damaging pulp or lumber stands. Permits are issued by the Depart- ment of Industry and Natural Re- sources. The take on beaver this SPHSUI1--DIOVeI'X1I.')EF 10th-December 31st - was the heaviest on re- cord. A professional trapper in Kings county took ,l0 of the ani- mals. He used No. 4 traps that cost 54.50 each. Two farm boys in the Alberry Plains district trapped 11

area. I understand the trappers also availed themselves to proper beaver traps.

The meeting of the Queens County Branch Gamn Association to he held in the Prince of Wales

second in the mile and one-six- tcenth Whli'I1 was raced at 2.2435. That was the only Maritime horse that raced either afternoon.

He had a long talk with Rennie Mar-Donald. Pat McKeiina. who is driving horses there, John Walker who is caretaker for Worrell Lewis' stable. and he also saw Islanders Kenny and Walsh from Peake's Station. The boys all seem com- fortable and are all enjoying them- selves. Clarence backs up our statement re the dinners at Duf- ferln by saying he had one of the loveliest roast beef dinners he ever ate-and the price was fifty cents! We understand this part of the show is not expected to pay.

College on Thursday. January lath. at 8.00 p.m. pi-om.ses to be welit attended. A number of subyects of interest to rural hunters end resi- ocntsaie to come up for discus- sion and recommendations are ex- pected that will request import- ant changes in the Game Act.

it is the opinion of many local hunters and others interested in our wildlife. that it should be made compulsory for non-resident hunters to avail themselves of the services of a registered guide patterned somewhat after similar regula- tions in effect in Nova. Bcotia and New Brunswick. Qnly a small per- centage of Non-resident hunters bother engaging a. guide after their first visit. They'll hire a. local resi- dent io show' them around until they know the ropes' to quote an old saying. and after that they ramble around strictly on tneir own.

Borne pretty wild stories are be- ing circulated about the quantity of game they shoot while not undei official supervision ullu also in re- gard to alleged ungentlemanly be- havior toward local landowners. Un- fortunately there is no definite way to run down such rumours and pin-point the individual, or indivi- duals,-responsible. If a IEKISWWG guide was employed all any ag- grieved party would havegto do is to jot down the identification num- ber worn on the guides back. In a matter of hours lnformationvoll the name and address of the Kind”- and also of the party he W38 11115- ing would be known.

It has been my experience. and I have run down complaints that were really eye-openers. that many visiting hunt"s ' 0 models OI 919'

::,y in their actions and smooth as olive oil in ii.uiiner while under supervision but once they are on. their own can sprout a crop oil palm. and feathers in nothing flat. ,As the late John Allen, an English-l man of the old school used to say: "For I'se knows". .

Now don't get me wi'onB- I am. not even remotely suggesting that all our local hunters are sti-angers to paint and feathers. We havei enough of our local product on the loose every fall who can stir up more then cnc-i'".h trouble to got around without i.iy help from out-l siders. I am quite convinced that if a local man or youth. employedl

along a string of seven dams in the: younger I

as a paid guide, and wholhad re-. ceived advance instructions and. ltralning on his duties and gentle-.' manly behaviour, were to approachl a farmer and request permissioni to hunt on his land, after identify-i ing himself and his party. it would have a favourable reaction and put the farmers in an easier frame of. mind. At least hr would know rm whom to place the responsibilityi if crop damage or livestock iossr.-s' occurred. Drop in and meet the gang on the thirteenth. Discus-1 slons - fireworks and movies in; the order named.

GIRL SHOOTS FATHER TOPEKA. Klan. (AF) --- A 13-; year-old girl admitted in pol that she killed her father in the-irl home Sunday night fnllr-Winl -1", argument over a boy friond. Of: ficers said Linda Lee Lantis. win-I my (11 a marksmanship me-dal.l told them she shot her fathcr in the back of the head with a .22-i calibre rifle. Linda said her fatheigl Lawrence R. Lantis. 46. had ob- jected earlier in the day in the! boy friend calling her on the tclo-z phone. I

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