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PLANS FOR RACING AT WOODBINE. Toronto. Orit., April 2S. The program book of the Ontario Joekej Clubs May meeting provides for seven races daily, and it is probable that the first will be called at 2 oclock. Three stakes, the Kings Plate, Woodstock Plate and Minto Stakes, will be decided on the opening day. Saturday. .May 20. Overnight handicaps to Ik; run during the meeting close at the secretarys office at the course as follows: Weights an- Stake, To close, nounccd. Searboro Steeplechase Mav IS Miv 1! Queens Hotel Cup May 10 Mav 20 Leamington Handicap Mav 22 May 23 ThoriiclifTe Purse, hunters lint handicap , May 10 Mav 22 Aintroe Steeplechase Mav 22 May 2:. Stanley Barracks Cup, hunters steeplechase May 23 May 24 Waterloo Handicap May 23 May 25 The following stakes close on Monday next, May 1: For three-j-ear-olds and .upward Added. To he run. Toronto Cup handicap ,000 Mav 24 King Edward Gold Cup a challenge cup, value ,500, with... 1,500 Mav 27 Minto Stakes selling 1,000 Mav 20 Prince of Wales Handicap 1,000 Maj 23 For three-year-olds Woodstock Plate 2,000 May 20 For two-year-olds Victoria Stakes 1,200 May 24 Steeplechases Woodbine Steeplechase 1,500 Mav 24 Street Railway Steeplechase 1.200 May 27 For Canadian Owners Only. Added. To lie run. Coronation Stakes ,000 Mav 22 Liverpool Cup 1.000 Mav 25 William Ilendrie Memorial Ildcp... 1,000 May 27 Weights for the handicap stakes that close May 1 will be announced as follows: Toronto Cup, May 20; Prince of Wales Handicap. May 20; Street Railway Steeplechase, May 21; William Ilendrie Memorial Handicap, May 24. A new rule in this years ImkiIc is the following, which lias been .effective elsewhere in holding a program together and providing interesting contests instead of walkovers: "In purse races and overnight handicaps an owner can withdraw his horse by paying five per cent, of the first money, declaration and payment to lie made to the clerk of the scales by ! a. in. the day oT the race. In such races with more than eight S entries, owners shall have the right to declare out to that number free of charge, such right to be determined by lot. Declaration fees will lie divided, sixty per cent, to the second horse and forty per cent, to the third."
