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WILL RACE FOR SEVEN DAYS + MANAGEMENT OF NEW CANADIAN TRACK ELABORATE THEIR PLANS. •l + I Original Schedule for Inaugural Meeting Providing I lor Only Five Days Is Amended — Corporate .j Title of Association Decided Upon. , I Ottawa. Oat., March 4.— Important announcement! . v . ■!•• made todav, following :i special Meeting r the i Ottawa Jockey club, li was derided to change the i nauH to the • onnaughl Par* Jockey Club, Limited, 1 • f Ottawa and i" 1 • ■ • 1 ili" Inaugural nieetin* at the I ... plant • . the Aylmer Bond September 19 to 26 I iik naive, h was originally Intended to hold only ■ i live-days meeting this year, bat the prospects toe m gixnl Lhal :i aeveu-days meeting will be given. ■. fweiitj tl aaud dollar- will he offered in porn s and stakes, with a pane of lean value than ffWu and th feature of the opening day will Include ;i i rare for a cap or plate offered b/ His Royal High-ii— ;-. Ihe Ci-.ki of Connaugbt, who lias consented to : act as honorary pn sident. Racing Manager, Albert Rohrback, In an Interview i i . |ii -1 « -.1 that au erroueous impression concerning i Ike Intentioua ol Ihe cinb be corrected. It appear 1 i that horsemen at Charleston, Juares and elsewhere tmd beard tli.it the Ottawa club li.nl decided t ia-tbc part mutucls. They have, an the other band, ilefiultely decided not to have 1 1 1« - machines .iti.l will build a large betting ring. 200 by 80 feet. ilaus for the construction "t the clubhouse and tdands were accepted Saturday and the plant is now i ,, course of construction. It will U mpleted ;iIh«uI tin- middle nf August. A. It. Loudon. i t the llauiiltoii Jockey Club, li :i- accepted an invitation to , ..mil with the directors with regard to the arrange stent k for the paddock and betting ring. i I in track is situated on the Quebec side f the , I rer and will In- operated under Am same conditions mm that at Blue !•• uncts, Montreal. The clubhouse, stands ami other emivenlenees will coal about 30. INK, ami Ilia R ul Highness. the Duke of Couuaugtat. will preside over the Inaugural cereuto mi - mi tin- opening day. The track will Ik- sixtv live feel wide on i li * - backstrctcti and seventy -8 ve leit iii the homestretch. The track is bow being graded :mi1 foundations far stands aad clabhoase are , . .;•_ made raadj . . ,..- addition oi Ottawa to i ■! - Canadian racing •Aviiii i:it. i in ; l -i ! a chain will h -tait- at Windsor, » at., anil nana to Montreal, Que. The Conuaught ■* ark club "ill hold firing and fall aaeetlags after nis year, tilling in between the Montreal and T . ait» meetings in June ami September. There Is iiidiuited capital and Influence behind the new slub , and Coijnaugbl Park la certain t" prove a success from every standpoint and will giTe horsemen foci ,ii days more of racing on the Canadian circuit. The Brsi program hook, including the stakes, will be loiied - - . • . i . Manager Rohrbark intends visiting the ■ni ii ;.i Charleston and Juarei towards the end . . March and will then return to Ottawa to remain | t.n.il the work of construction is completed.
