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VALUE OF KINGS PLATE INCREASED. Oldest Stake Run Continuously on This Continent to Have ,500 Added to 1917 Running. The steady increase in the amount of money offend for distribution among owners of horses in Canada has its latest exemplification in the conditions for this years King Plate-. The usual four stake-s of the Ontario Jockey Club, which close the- first of March, each year, include the Plate for this year, the other events being due to be run in 1!1S and 1920. The added money from the club is now 67,866, and owners e-an enter for a race to be worth over -608 lor a five-dollar bill. The conditions of the- Plat- are Ba follows: â– The Kings Plate fifty guineas the gift of his majesty King George V.. with . .".Ml added by tie- club. Tin- first horse to receive the guineas, stakes ami 65.566; the second horse ,000. and tin-third horse Socio. The bre-ecler of the winner to r.cc-ive 8566. A sweepstakes of No payable at time of entry, and 5 additional to start. For three-year-olds and upward, the property of a British subject ri-siden; in Ontario, foaled, raised anil train-el ill Ontario, that have- never waa a race, either on the flat or across country, other than a race- exclusively for two-year-olds, have never left Canada, and have iie-ver for a period of more than on.- monih out of this province. Winners to i any five pounds extra. Death of nominator docs tied render entry raid. One mile- and a qaarter. A piece- of plate will be presented by the club to the winner. To be run Saturday. May IB."
