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ALL IN READINESS AT WOODBINE PARK Twelve Carded to Contend For Kinjjs Plate Honors Over a Muddy Track Toronto Out May 21 With the opening of the Woodbine Park track tomorrow the Canadian rac ¬ ing season of 1915 will be ushered in For the opening day a wellbalanced card of seven races is offered with the oldest fixture run continuously on this continent the Kings Plate as the main attraction In this dash of one mile and a quarter with an estimated value of 0000 twelve have been named to go The winner this season from the present outlook will have a much harder struggle than some of the recent winners as a iiiiicn better balanced field is carded cardedHampton Hampton Dame and Lady Cnrzon at present are the ones most fancied but the Seagram stable is much stronger in Plate material this year than for the past few seasons Hampton Dame re wntlv changed owners William Kraussman dis ¬ posing of her to K C Davies of this city at a big figure Charles Millar a local owner has in Fair Montague and Tartarean a pair that are much fancied by many They were both bred ana foaled at Mrs L A Livingstons Cobourg farm farmThe The rains of last night and this morning trans ¬ formed the track to mud fetlock deep Many new improvements are noticed at the course the principal one of which is the change in the steeple ¬ chase course A iniitnel board to carry an an ¬ nouncement of the prices similar to those in use on the Maryland tracks has been installed installedApart Apart from the Kings Plate the program for the opening is attractive Other features are the Trial Plate the Minto Stakes the At hoi Handicap Steeplechase and the Win Mulock Cup The On ¬ tario Jockey Club has been extremely liberal in added money fur the different races something like 11000 in added money being offered for the seven races Half of the money g es to the King Plate The fields arc large and despite the bad trjCk conditions interesting and wholesome sport shoud be witnessed witnessedMany Many horses that showed good form at Pimlico are entered and should give a good account of themselves If one is to judge from the size of the llclds there will be no lack of racing material this season seasonLate Late arrivals include F Itrown C Ilenshall and Frank M Taylor from New York and Thos Francis from IJulTalo Air Taylor Is on the lookout for radii material and will probably race a string in Canada Jockey T Smyth came from Louisville and will ride free lance during the meeting
