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TORONTOS RICH OFFERING ONTARIO JOCKEY CLUB ANNOUNCES PROGRAM TOR ITS COMING SPRING MEETING. Fourteen Stakes, With Toronto Cup, ,000 Added, as Topliner, to Be Decided During Seven Days Meeting: Minimum Purse Value 00. Toronto, Ont., April fi. In the stake offerings of the Canadian Racing Associations clubs the best has been kept till the last, and the announcement of the fixtures for the spring meeting of the Ontario Jockey Club, the oldest and leading organization, is the richest and most attractive of all the programs for the coming season in this country. The liberality of the- Ontario Jockey Club has kept pace with Its enterprise in deciding on the introduction of the pari-mutucl, and though the directors are practically quite in the dark as to the prospective revenue; by reason of that change, they have approached the question of prize .money with apparently not the- least misgiving as to its support by the public There is no past experience to serve as a guide, hut the club does not. ask owners to assume any of the uncertainty. The announcement is made by Secretary W. P. Fraser that eleven stakes will close May 3. To these the club adds 7,400, what is known as the guaranteed slake having no place on the Toronto program. The Kings Plate, Breeders and Maple leaf Stakes, previously closed, have 1911.sh,250 added, so that there will be a total of ,1,650 given from the club funds for stake events during the spring meeting. That means two stakes every day. with the entrance money all going hack to the winners. In addition to the stakes there will be handicaps of 00 and 00, and no purse Of less value than 00. Steeplechasers will be particularly catered to, with ono cross-country race daily, .and ,200 given in the seven days exclusively for the jumpers. One notable change in the conditons is that the Toronto Cup. the" most valuable race to be run in Canada this year, will be a handicap, instead of a wcight-for-age race as in the past. Under the new conditions such a horse as King James possibly may not have to carry as., much as before, but his cora-,.rwtilrsi.:wlir nandt beTeqnired" to meet hi,m on even terms. WhenJaekAtkin won the 0,000 Dominion Handicap at Fort Erie last year there was not a word of grumbling, for the "big train" and Sager and bis stable companions bad participated "regularly in the racing, and added to the enjoyment of patrons throughout the meetings. The course taken with King James was quite different. For two years in succession Mr. Hlldreth shipped him here from New York to rnn in one race and carry away the biggest purse of the meeting, which- comprised the only appearances of the Hildreth stable in Canadian racing. The change is one that the club management feels will meet with the approval both of public and owners. The eleven events which -will close May 1 are as follows: Toronto Cup, ,000 added, handicap; for three-year-olds and upward; 1 1-8 miles. To be run .May 24. King Edward Hotel Gold Cup. ,500 added: for three-year-olds and upward; weight for age; 1 1-4 miles. May 27. Minto Selling Stakes, ,000 added; for three-year-olds and upward; 1 1-10 miles. May 20. Prince or Wales Handicap. ,000 added: for three-year-olds and upward: 3-4 mile. May 2:3. Liverpool Cup, ,ri00 added; for three-year-olds and upward owned in Canada; weight for age; 1 1-10 miles. May 25. William Hendric Memorial Handicap. ,000 added: for three-year-olds and upward foaled in Canada: 1 mile. May 27. Woodstock Plate, ,000 added; for three-year-olds: 1 1-S miles. May 20. Victoria Stakes. ,200 added; for two-year-olds; 5 8 mile. : May 24. Coronation Stakes, ,000 added; for two-year-olds foaled In Canada: 4 1-2 furlongs. May 22. Woodbine Steeplechase. ,500 added; for four-vear-olds- and upward: aliout 2 1-2 miles. May 24. Street Railway Steeplechase Handicap, ,200 added; four four-year-olds and upward; about 2 1-2 miles. -May 27. The daily card during the spring meeting will consist of seven races.
