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TIIIIIIO RACEWAY LIMITED

ANNOUNCES ITS T953 -PROGRAM

RACING DATES: MAY 18 THROUGH THANKSGIVING DAY Fstimated Purse Distribution: 070,000.00

There will be 1.5 mile dashes on May 18 and June 2 for 8100.00 a dash. Night racing will commence on June 17 and they will be held, every Wednesday and Saturday I nights from June 17 through Thanksgiving Day with no dash for less than 3200.00 and featuring the following Early Closing Events: , No. 1: Free For All Trot and Pace. Puree 81500.00. To be raced Dominion Day. No. 2: 2:22 Pace, Purse 3000.00. To be raced July 4. No. 3: 2:25 Pace. Puree 0000.00. To be raced July 8. No. It 2:21 Pace. uree 3000.00. To be raced July 11. ,No. 0: 4 Year Old Trot and Pace (Foaled in Canada) Puree 8800.00. To he raced July 15. ' 0: 2:17 Class Pace, also eligible, 2:10 class and slower, non-winners of 32000.00 in 1952. Puree 8800.00. To he raced July 18. 11 2:80 Pace. Purse 3000.00. To be raced July 22. an 2:24 Clsae Trot. also eligible. 2:!) class and slower, non-winners of 3700-00 in 1952. Puree 0000.00. To he raced July 5. . 0: 8 Year Old Trot and Pace (Foaled in Canada) Purse 0800.00. J l 29. - 10: 231,0 Clue Plea. also eligible, 2:17 class and slower, non-winners of 31500.00 in 1952. Puree 3800.00. To he raced, Aug. 1 11: 2:24 Pace. Puree 8000.00. To be raced Aug. 5. . 12: 2 Year Old Trot and Pace (Foaled in Canada) Purse 3600.00, A .8. - Ll: Clue Psce, also eligible, 2210 class and slower, non-winners of 51500.00 . in 1952. Puree 3800.00. To be raced Aug. 12. . 14: 2:28 Pace. Purse 8000.00. To he raced Aug. 15. . 15: 2:20 Class Trot, also eligible. 2:16 class and slower. non-winners of 51000.0( in 1952. Puree 8000.00. To he raced Aug. 19. 10: 8 You Old Trot and Pace (Foaled in Canada) Purse 3800.00. Aug. 22. 11: 2:20 Pace. Purse 3000.00. 18: 2 Year Old Trot and Pace , Aug. 29. ' . 10: Free For All Trot and Pace. Puree 31500.00. To he raced Labor Day.

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All early closing events will 'he raced 2 dashes at 1 mile, except Nos. 1 and '19 which will be 3 dashes at 1 mile each. Positions drawn for each dash. TWO PAIMENTS: 196 at time of closing, April 1, 1953, and final payment of 1',&'7o due on June 15 when horses must be named. A ”

Plan to race at Truro Raceway Ltd. in 1953, Racing on Wednesdays and Saturdays from June 17 through Thanksgiving Day, no dash for less than 5200.00. If unfavour-

5 able:-uh ether, Wednesday races will be held on Thursday and Saturday races on ; nGEr ENTRIES CLOSE ON APRIL 1 FOR ALL EARLY CLOSING EVENTS TRURO RAC EWAY LIMITED

Les Bickerton, President. Carl Ms.cKenzie, Secretary.

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mg the lste fall, winter and early

spring birds of all kinrh made this site their hesdqua tau. Scores of robiins, wrens. wsrblers, finches, tree swsillo . woodpeckers. flickers, and others I never saw before. flockod to this haven and nested there.

It was a. real Garden of Eden until serpents, in the form of cats. crows, hewiks. etc, moved into this peaceful setting. A hail! dozen tom cots well fed, fat and alee-py look- ing, prowled the orchard glsdes: red squirrels drove woodpeckers and flickers from their net holes in gnarled apple trees and pulled down the tiny heinirnocky hair nests that swung from limbs and crows raided the robin nests in broad drwiikht asibcld as bras. I fought the temptatimi to sally forth with my trusty B. S. A. 22 cal. rifle for I knew it would mean a break in Diplorriatlo relations.

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The pay-of-f came one evenkig as we stood together in mid orchard. A aharpshin haiwk darted in with the speed of an arrow and picked a singing Goldfinch off its perch. I washed helplemly as the hawk and its prey disappeared eastward

the wood that flanked Grosfby's Greek with a nrumiber of swallows in pursuit.

I remarked: "What harve to you to say about that."

His con-unent was brief: "It has to eat" (He was referring to the hawk.)

My own cornirrieit was equally terse and to the point: "This is not conservation . . . it's system- atlzed murder of in-nocerirt wildlife." He didn't know it but that hsiwk had signed its own death warrant. I got both it and its mate near their nut site a. few days later.

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It was only natural that pre- dators should gather where their natural prey was abundant a.nd this w-ild'l-life "House of Dreams” was doomed to failure from the beginning . . . . it was founded on the sands. As the pathetic piles of mute feaiiiheirs grew more abundant the joyful song of the bvlrdsleescned and was replaced by the funeral dirge of survivors crying for lost mates or young.

It's passing strange, or is it so strange. that the houseost. 9. DW- duct of man. next to main him- self is the deadliest predator on fbur feet or with wings. Here was a man who could have gone places in the conservation realm, he pos- semed many of the qualifications if he had not held blindily to the fetish: let Nature take its course.

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We have one man in the pro- vince, Harvey Moore, Mililtown Groin, in King's County who bids fair to duplicate Jack Miner in many respects. He is a natural outdoorsman and pi a fund of knowledge in respect to wild- life.

Nine years ago he began to culti- vate the acquaintance of B. few black ducks that wintered regular- ly in an open spring near his home. After several years their rvurnibers grew until it was necmary tobuildademontiheatream that itlowed past his door. I called on him during the cold snap in early March and found over 300 ducks. mostly blacks. partaking of his food and hospitality. Those were birds of the wild but he could walk among them like a farmer with a. flock of hens at feed time.

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He has a bending permit but

diourrt need a wire cage to drive than into first . . . just walks along and picks them up off the ice. They dont seem to mind in the least - on the con.t.ra.ry ap- pear to enjoy the experience. He doesn't rush things and only bands 10 air 12 at one time, A few will ihoponmykneeamdeaitgrain out of my hand but the big majority dhy clear of strangers. Mr. Moore has no illusions in re- spect to what. pi-edatai-s.can do and woe betide the great horned owl that gem any "free Jueich" ideas into his. or her, head. Mr. Moon-,'s sanotmlry is a. result of the con- servation work done in the past by the man whose memory we are twnourlns by National Wildlife Week.

The late Jack Miner was the first to band wildgeese with aluimlnum bands in order to estai - llsh their miizrratimi routes. etc. Now authorities at Washington and Ottawa are banding thousands of birds of all species with instructions on the band to notify Washington Biological Survey. The abbreviation reads: "Wash. Biol. Stu'v." Recently a letter from an angry taxpayer Oampilainedz "sire - I shot one of youripet. crows and followed the instructions, I washed it, bailed it and served it, but it was ter- rible. St-op fool-ing the people." That wheit I call following instructions to the letter.

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Stable, New York, after winning the Hambletonian.

Elope, outstanding French trot- ting colt of the past three years and the holder of the French four- year-old record for trotters both to harness and saddle, has been pur- chased by the Femch Ministry of Agriculture and will be stationed at one of the national stallion de- pots. He has been the winner of Mi-FLY 350.000 during his career. The price paid-hold your breath-- wes 11,000,000 francs, (approxim- ately 385.000) and it is the highest ever paid by the French Govern- ment fcr a'trotting stallion. Elope is the son of Quel Veinerd, now owned and standing at Two Gaits Perm, Indianapolis. Indiana.

The Charlottetown Driving Park and Provinciel libthibitim Associa- hon has Ptiblislwd I list of its early closing events which will be raced from June 27th to August

purse 0000. Altogether there In 10 stakes. The first will be mood June 27th, the 2.21 pace condition- ed. purse 3000. There is a. Three Year Old Pace raced July mat for e purse of 3500 and e Two Year old Pace August 7th, puree 8500. The nounoarnent states that op- ening races will be held on June 2nd and continue through to Thanksgiving Day. All early clos- ing events will be two dashes at one mile except the Free For All No. 0, which will beithree dashes. Money divisions are 30. 21. 18. 12 and 5 per cent. We are glad that the races are almost altogether on the two-daah'plsn as under our present training conditions athree dash mos may give a. horse a set- back. -

The money conditions we con- sider much fairer for all concerned than moss in enect sit Roosevelt Raceway and many other tracks where the winner gets 50 per cent of the purses. By distributing the money man evenly bettcr encour- agement is given to more owners. The racing date of Juneznd brings us back to the long ago when races were staged on the King's birth- day, June 3rd. The seasons were very early then and the track would be in perfect condition and the weather quite good. This year the track will be fit to work horses miles below 3.00 by the middle of April and we presume other tracks throughout the Maritimes will be equally early. An announcement. regarding purses and programs for Old -Home Week through to Thanksgiving Day will be released later. The total purses for the above program total over 39,000. E. Frank Acorn will again be Race Secretary and will handle all the details in connection with entriw, declarations, etc.

Brewer's Gallon 2.00 U5, eight- year-old stallion by Bill Gallon 1.59',':, owned by B. Cfcruikshaink of Halifax, N. s., is again in train- ing at Truro Raceway, and ac- cording to reports is going sound and will be camipaiigncd this seas- on. He is in the hands of that master trainer, Johnny Conroy, and will of course get the very best of attention. He has total win- nings of 337,218.65 and with allow- ances is eligible to the 2.10 trot. He was bought by Mr. Oruikshank at the Harrisburg sale in the fall of 1947 and in 1048 as a three- year-old started 12 times, was 8 times first winning 3841. It was at Charlottetown Old Home Week, August 13th that he took his re- cord thet. year of 2.18 and equalled it again at Bridgewater Sam. 6th. He was trained and driven in all his races by John MaoMillan.

In 1940 he passed into the hands first of Johnny Campbell. who drove him to a win, and then to Neil Campbell. He made 22 starts and only lost two heats. His fast- est time was 2.10 H5 at Charlotte- town Old Home Week. He won the first two heats and the last was won by Neil Kalmuck. From there he was shipped to Joe O'Brien in New York and Joe took him to California where he started Octo- ber 10th and was second. On Oc- tober 21st at Hollywood Park, he won in 2.06125-a. new record- and won again Nov. 24th in ?.')'I. In 1960 he started 10 times and won 17 firsts and increased his earnings to 316,245, and at Lexing- ton, Ky. took his present record of 2.00425. He was trained and driv- enan all these races by Joe O'- Brien. In 1951 he showed signs or lameness while training in cm- forms, was shifted to the pace and it was thought that he would make good at that gait, but not so and he was changed back to the trot. He made 15 starts, was three times first. four times second and once third. His fastest mile was 2.05 W5 over a. half-mile track. In 1950 he made 11 starts, was twice first, twice second and once third and he as was racing against the beat ti-otters in America. for large stakes his winnings amounted to 310,081. There is no question that had Brewer's Gallon remained sound he would have beaten 2.00. All Marltimers will be pulling for Brewer this year and his popular "When Mr. Cruikshank, and we hope that we will see him in set- ion here and elsewhere in the Maritimes.

The new management of the Summerside track had an an. noimcevment in last. Saturday's paper that was good news to many horsemen-s 31.000 Free For an and two 36(1) supporting classes for Dominion Day, July let. The sum- merside track is one of the oldest tracks in this Province. if not the oldest. We hiwe summaries of races held there in the early 1880's and it was in 1880 that the celeb- rated Bliwk Pilot-Hernandomatch race took place there with what is said to be the largest number of people ever brought together in Prince County. As a small boy I listened to Harry Bi-ownell coming out on the Railway Station plat- form at sourk and reading tele- grams of how the race was pro. gressing. There were hundreds present. The same thing was going on all over the Province. Black Pilot won. He was the first horse ever bred in the Maritiimu to trot

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7th. 1002. Their closing date will be lley let. Stakes range from a Ialpocctoerree hr All Face with purses from 8000 to 01,200,

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a mile in 2.30 and he was the sire of one of the greatest trotters ever produced in the Maritimes,Special Blend, that years later held six track records including the then Charlottetown track record of 2.18M for a mile trotting.

In 104:1 the Sumimerside track was rebuilt and such a good job was done that new records trot- ting and pacing were made over it thst year. on July 7th the pacer Happy L. 2.ml6 by Bill L. 2.1605. won the Free For All in 2.0114. He was driven by Earle semple, and on July 15th squire!-Ianover, own- ed and driven by Tyndall semple, and Wetchlm 2.00, owned by Al- derman Praiu: Adams of Halifax and driven by Myron MacArthur, deed-heated to e trotting record of non. Now we understand the plant is being greatly improved and at large number of new stalls are being built in addition tothcse that were built last year, better accommodations for grand stand and a vastly improved track with lights installed for night racing. so the Summerelde oval will cer- tainly takie its piece with other top Maritime race tracks. Our best. wishes to the enterprising mau-

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a track for training and racing and good enjoyment to the people of Prince County and other parts of this Province.

We were delighted to have a post card from Dr. 1". W. Christo-

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pher of Boston, Mam, who h I native son at Tigrnish and who has been one at the best breeders and supporters! of harriem racing in the Msritimes for many years. The Doctor is having a very happy holiday IA. Orlando, Florida,

where he will spend a few weeks and on March Iiznd, the day he wrote us, he saw two-year-old trotte-rs stepping miles in 21). Thanks, Doctor, and we will be looking forward to seeing you Old Home Week as usual.

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