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TORONTOS TWO NEW FALL STAKES. Of the Durham Cup and the Grey Stakes, the two new events opened by the Ontario Jockey Club for their first running at the coming fall meeting at Toronto, Pop, in the Toronto World, says: "Both are named after governors-general of Canada. One, however, reigned in troublous times, seventy-eight years ajjo, and the other prevails in the prosperous days of the present. Lord Durham, who we all surely hope will be on hand some time to see his handsome, gracious and generous gift run; for, it, indeed, he cannot be present this .year, was probably actuated in the giving by two objects, one the memory of his illustrious ancestor and the other a desire to help racing and thoroughbred breeding in Canada. Both objects are worthy, and in their carrying out will receive the heartiest endorsement of the Canadian people. Approximately his lordship expressed the desire that his gorgeous trophy, that would make an enviable and elegant adornment for a kings drawing-room table, should be confined to horses foaled in Canada! "The race should command a good entry of various ages and result in a wcll-fought-out contest, although some people profess to think the distance, one and three-quarter miles, a bit too far for the ordinary Canadian-bred. For the ordinary animal it undoubtedly is, but Lord Durhams object is not altogether to encourage that kind of a beast. If Wire In and War Whoop could win against allcomers at two miles and over, as they did In the Jockey Club Cup in 1903 and 1005, there is no reason that I can see why for their successors a shorter distance at this time of the year should be considered too long. These, however, are the conditions and the executive, very properly, I think, proposes to adhere to them and hope further to establish a race at the fall meeting that in the future history of the turf in Canada will be considered hardly second in importance to the Kings Plate itself. Three hundred dollars, by the way, is to be given to the second horse and 00 to the third. "The Grey Stakes, the other innovation, should bring out a good array of two-year-olds and should encourage owners to follow the example of Mr. Sanford of Amsterdam, to hold over backward youngsters to the fall, when they will have a better chance than in the spring of accomplishing something without ruining themselves atythe first asking. The penalties are, perhaps, a bit severe, making a difference of twenty pounds possible, but a good two-year-old in September is a formidable antagonist of the average three-year-old and therefore should be able to carry the weight, which anyhow starts at seven pounds lelow the scale, and which means that the top weight carried by a colt cannot be more than 125 pounds and the lowest not less f.ian 105, geldings and mares each getting an additional allowance of three pounds. The distance, a mile,, is well calculated to try the mettle of the youngsters. Referring to the weights again, it is worth noting by way of encouragement that Lord Rose-berrys Traquair carried 135 pounds to victory in the race for the National Breeders Produce Stakes at Sandown Park the other day and that loth Mr. Robert Davies English stallions, Orme Shore anil Ailes dOr carried 131 pounds to victory as two-year-olds."
