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WOODBINE AUTUMN STAKES Splendid Array of Entries Received for Valuable Ontario Jockey Club Features. TORONTO, Out., Aug. 25. Never in the history of racing at Woodbine Park have the stake nominations for the fall meeting of the Ontario Jockey lull, September 21 to October 1, filled as well as thist year. Some of the most powerful staldes in America are represented and with the program catering to long-distance racing the premier jockey club or Canada gives promise of having a successful meeting. Horsemen are given every encouragement in the book got out by secretary W. P. Fraser, as can bo gleaned by the tremendous amount of money that the Ontario Jockey Club is distributing. The Toronto Autumn Cup handicap, ,500 added, secured fifty-nine nominations, including some of the best horses in training. In addition to the winner and second of last year, Exterminator, and that game and good little mare. My Dear, there are the horses of Hendrie, Rancocas, Ross, Seagram and Siiunyland Stables, as well as Sennings Park and Idle Dell, material a-plenty for a wonderful contest of liigh-clats horses. The Ontario Jockey Club handicap, ,500 added, the two and a quarters mile race to be rim on the last day, Saturday, October 1, has an entry list of forty. The Dnrham Cup, ,000 added, also run on the last day, at one mile and three-quarters, numbers thirty, and includes all the best of the Dominion-bred horses. Seagram Cup handicap, ,000 added, for horses owned in Canada, has attracted tiiiry-three entries. In the forty-seven nominated for the King George Stakes handicap. ,000 added, some of the festest horses are included. In the Lansdowne Nursery Handicap, ,000 added, all the best of the Dominion-bred two-year-olds, while the Grey Stakes, ,000 added, a race for two-year-olds at a mile, has filled with the splendid number of forty-eight and includes a lot of smashing two-year-olds. In the Hendrie Steeplechase Handicap, ,000 added, of two and one-half miles, will be found the best steeplechasers in training, with Mrs. Lofts Sweepment at the head. The Canadian champion. Bencher, will have a chance of proving his wortli with the best cross-country horses in training.
