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CONDENSED HISTORY OF THE ONTARIO JOCKEY CLUB CUP The Ontario Jockey Club Cup was at first a dasli of two miles but in the progress of the years since Hie good horse Orcntas was its first winner it was sensibly lengthened to the orthodox cup route of two and a quarter miles It will be run at that distance for the fifth time this afternoon with some highclass horses competing aud a probability that its present record will bu beaten The record of the event Is Year First Age Jockeys Wt Second Age Wt Third Age Wt Val Time 1902 Orontas 5 BlakellO Bellconrt 6 i 99 Lou Ray 104 865 335 1903 Wire In 4 D Hall 112 Bellcourt 7 1C7 Easy Street 4 112 1170 334 1904 Persistence 4 Olandt 05 Prism 4 96 Rough Rider 7107 1170 342 1905 War Whoop 4 M Preston 90 Wire In G 113 Sir Ralph 3 Ill 1210 3344 190G 3344190G Alma Dufour 5 Nicol 107 Sir Ralph 4 Ill Reservation 6 107 1JK50 401 1907 359ij190S Kelpie 3 Mulcahy 100 Glimmer 3 97 Mainchance 3 105 1750 359ij 190S Cave Adsuin 4 Nicol 118 Water Lake 5 9G Ontario 5 102 lOJVr 3r 94 1909 Azo 3 Brannon 98 Cave Adsum 5 11G Old Honesty 5110 2270 400 Distance 400Distance 2 miles la 1D02 and 1903 2 11C miles in 1901 and 1905
