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WOODBINE PLACE OF BEAUTY One of Finest Racing Grounds on This Continent Saturdays Great Program. TORONTO, Ont., September 29. "You have in Woodbine one of the finest racing grounds on this continent," remarked a visitor from the Stntjs who has only recently returned from England. "The people of Toronto should feel proud of it. and they evidently are, if one is to Judge from the attendance that has patronized the meeting. Your steeplechase field has no equal in the States and, better still, your Ontario Jockey Club shows an extremely liberal spirit in keeping the admission down to a figure which enabled everyone to witness the sport." This is certainly a boost for racing here, and deservedly so. The average distribution of money to the purses is greater than at any other track either in the States or Canada. Saturday wiil be a gala occasion at the Woodbine. On this day Lord Byng, the governor general, will make an informal visit, and he has timed it to enable him to witness this particular day of racing. Saturday will mark not only the closing day of the racing season in this section but what will probably be the greatest days racing ever witnessed at Woodbine. The Ontario Jockey Club has fairly outdone itself in furnishing a program in keeping with the occasion. There will be attractions galore and to the seven races will be added the handsome sum of 7,000. The Ontario Jockey Club Handicap will, of course, attract the most interest, with the great Exterminator a sure starter in it. The distance of the race is two miles and a quarter and it has an added value of ,500. Then there is the Grey Stakes, ,000 added, at one mile, Avhich will decide the championship among the two-year-olds racing in Canada, as the Henrie Steeplechase will decide the championship among the cross-country horses running here. This race, also a handicap, has ,000 added and calls for a journey over the two and a half miles course, which means that in all the junipers will have to negotiate nineteen obstacles. The Durham Cup, which is exclusively for Canudinn-brcds, is another long-distance event which always arouses much interest here. It is at one and three-quarcrs miles and also has ,000 added. The Middleham riate, at one mile and seventy yards; the High Flyer Plate, at a mile and a sixteenth, and the North Country Handicap, nt three-quarters mile make up the remainder of the program. It will be noted that the last named Is the only race In which the distance is less than one mile. All that remains to make the occasion a gala one will be fine weather. -
