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Apart from the principle of it, those round track fork blades aren't designed to take braking forces. Steel road forks use ovalised blades for that reason but it makes the fork a bit less stiff laterally, which is why steel track forks often stick with round blades.
Combined with tight downtube clearance (although admittedly that frame doesn't look excessively tight), running a brake on drilled track forks can cause nasty problems on the road.