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ALL READY FOR RACING AT WOODBINE. Prospects Bright for an Excellent and Prosperous Meeting at the Leading Canadian Track. Toronto, Ont.. September 21. Secretary W. I. Fraser of the Ontario Jockey Club has completed his preparations for the opening of the fall meeting at Woodbine on Saturday next. Horses are arriving daily fom various points and there is every indication that the meeting will be in accord with the splendid traditions of this foremost of Canadian racing organizations. Local interest in the sport is keen and society folks will, as usual, figure prominently in the clubhouse and on the lawns. Secretary Frasers offering for the opening day includes such notable events as the Toronto Autumn Cup, ,300 added, one mile and a quarter; the Woodbine Steeplechase, ,000 added, about two miles, and the Rothschild Cup, three-quarters, for Canadian-owned horses. Other races that will have a place on the program are the Harewood Plate, for three-year-olds and over, three-quarters; the Eglin-ton Plate, for two-year-olds, three-quarters; the Zetland Plate, for Canadian-foaled three-year-olds and over, one mile and seventy yards, and the Chifney Plate, one mile and a sixteenth, for three-year-olds and over. The track itself is in superb order and, with agreeable autumn weather in prospect. Saturday will doubtless sec the greatest gathering of the year at Woodbine. The stables of Sir John Hendrie. George M. ITcn-drie and William Garth are the latest arrivals at Woodbine from Montreal for the Ontario Jockey Club races. The Garth string numbers seventeen horses, one of the largest in training on the Canadian circuit. As usual there are a number of steeplechasers in the stable, and they showed they were all ready to race when they schooled through the field Tuesday. The infield and steeplechase course has been well baked all summer and the dust was flying. Sun King, the champion steeplechaser of the year, is in the Garth string and will be seen under colors during the coining meeting. Sun King has won seven out of eight starts, his only defeat being at Saratoga on August 17, when, with twenty-eight pounds the worst of the weights, he was beaten by the former Toronto-owned horse, Martian. Sun Kings latest victory was at Blue Bonnets, September 7. Robert Oliver, another winner at Montreal, will also carry the Garth colors through the field at Woodbine.
