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KINGS PLATE GROWING IN IMPORTANCE. Batries for the Kings Plate tliis year will probably run abaut the same in number as last year, but there is every reason to anticipate next season the beginning of an increase that will bring the number of nominations to one hundred before many years have passed. Now that two-year-old winners arc eligible, and the value of the Plato is ■muting, and the position of tin- turf in Canada becoming unassailable, wo may look for a 0,000 plate, with one hundred entries. I have already i-oine aCTON several men who have no horses, hsr! who are in the •■ maikii for province bred yearlings, which they would race next season, and put in the Plate the following year. The value of horses foaled in Canada is bound to he vastly added to by the enlarged opportunities offered them. Coming iiack to the race to In- run tin- 18th of May not far away, in spite of all the BttOW now • n the ground — two owners who were not interested last year are likely to figure largely in the outcome. 1 ; at Barrle the Dytnent arable shelters four or five i ligibles. from which trainer John Nixon will probably make Heresy and Tropnoo Hum bis choice. Either one would Ik- good enough for most owners to have in the plate. The other owner, not altogether a new-comer to the guineas. hut one whose first serious attempt is now being made, is CterieS Crest of the Half Way House, on the Kingston road. His jacket will lie .earned by the three year-old tilly Amberito. by Jlarti-iiias — Lyddite. A sister to Shiinonese ami row-dermaa. she is better furnished and more forward than either of these at the same age. Her work last fall was perhaps not as fast as anticipated, but it was nol her limit, and she was always master of her work-mate, the useful Kilo, which won the Quebec Kings Plate for Kenneth Dawes, and followed that up by a victory in a selling race, from which he went to the Crew stable. Due would expect to find Amberito in the Valley Farm Stable, and the fact that she is not. is one evidence of the bona tides of tin- annual public sales of the Valley Farm Stock. The filly was bid up to tl.000 for the racing stable, which was. and is. quite distinct from the breeding interest, and there Colonel Hendrie stopped. That was the limit, but Charles Crew was willing to go still higher. He bid .0."H. and became the owner of a likely winner of a richer Kings Plate than any yet run. It will not be an unpopular victory, yai may be sure, if the Kings un-le has this year In present the guineas to a man who had pluck enough to pay the record price for a province-bred yearling.— Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe.
