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WOODBINES FALL PROGRAM HAMILTON, Ont., August 9. Secretary W. P. Eraser of the Ontario Jockey Club, who was a yisitor here on Friday last, was quite enthusiastic over the meeting which Will be held at Woodbine Park next fall. The horsemen are responding generously to the stakes offered by the club and it would not be surprising to find a record entry to these events. There is every reason why there should be. The Ontario Jockey. Club, in its effort to provide high-class racing for its patrons, has added the magnificent sum of 111,000 to the races to be run during its seven days meeting. The minimum purse will be 1,500 added and the overnight handicaps and condition races will carry purses of ,000, S2.500 and ,000. Among the stakes offered are: Ontario Cup, a handicap for threc-yenr-olds and over, at a mile and a quarter, ,500 added. Ontario Jockey Club Handicap, for three-year-olds and ov.er, at two miles and a quarter, $"7,500 added. King George Stakes, a highweight handicap for all ages, at three-quarters, ,000 added. Grey Stakes, for two-year-olds, at one mile. ,000 added. Durham Cup, William Mulock Cup and the Lans-dowiie Nursery Handicap, which arc for Canadian-breds, each have ,000 added. The directors of the Ontario Jockey Club have decided in conjunction with the Connaught Park Jockey Club of Ottawa and the Montreal .Tockev Club of Montreal, to make a special effort to attract owners of steeplechasers and steeplechases will b? given at these meetings every day. At Woodbind, in addition to the Ilcndrie Stakes, two miles and a quarter with ,000 .added, .should conditions warrant, there will be run the Woodbine Autumn Steeplechase Handicap. ,000 added, on the opening day, Saturday, September 25, and the Coventry Steeplechase, ,500 added, oiV Wednesday, September 29. A steeplechase. for. three-year-olds and a maiden race for four-year-olds and over will lie .among the overnight races.
