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I • I I 1 APPROVE RUNNING OF KINGS PLATE Royal Assent Seen in Usual Gift of Fifty Guineas by His Majesty, King George. Toronto. Out.. May 9.— The decision of the Ontario Jockey Club to run the Kings Plate this year and preserve the record of this famous race as the oldest fixture run continuously in this country. has met with approval here and abroad. King George Y. has signified bis approval by the usual royal donatio!! of fifty guineas. This royal donation was originally made in lS."i9 by Queen Victoria, tinon the oetition of the Toronto Turf Club, through "Sir Edmund Head, the then governor-general. The headquarters of the club were at W. C. Keeles farm at Carleton. and the secretary-treasurer was Col. R. L. Denison. The prayer of the petitioners was for a Queens Plate of I TiO iHittmls. which was granted "to be run for at Toronto or such other place in Upper Canada as , her Majesty might appoint." _ For lour years. lN«iO-l.Nfi3, the race was run at • Carleton and subsequently, under political jires- I sure at Guelph. Ij.ndon. Hamilton. St. Catherines. . Whitby. Kingston. Ottawa. Barrie, Woodstock, i Prescott and Picton. In 1KS3 her Majesty Queen Victoria, at the instance of the present Duke ol I Argyll, gave her sanction to an understanding with the founders of the Ontario Jockey Club that the I race should therefore be established permanently here. Time has nroved this to lie a wise decision. I as under the control of the Ontario Jockey Club. I the race has amply fulfilled its purpose of en I coiiragiug the breeding of thoroughbreds in the Province of Ontario. I The Karl „f Miuto, a former governor-general of i Canada, on his return to England, stated publicly, i "Nothing, in my opinion, has done more good for i horse breeding in Canada tbiiu the Kings Plate run at Toronto." The race has steadily grown in importance and, the royal donation being eon Baaed be his late illustrious Majesty King Edward VII., has been run annually without inter riiption; so that when his Majesty King George V. decided to continue fi„. gift, the Kings Plate was already established as the oldest fixture run con . tiniiously in North America. I It will lie r„„ this year on Friday, May 24 I Thirty two nominations have lieen made for the race and. while no mention is made in the condi- | Cons, owners of entries are permitted for Ihe period of ihe war to take their horses out of Can a la ami not suffer disqualification so long as they have been registered with the Ontario Jockey Club, t
