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WOODBINE OPENS SATURDAY 1 Canadian Racing Season to Be Inaugurated at Famous Track. » Kings Plate, Oldest Stake Rare Ron Ton. tinaously in America, the Big Inangnral Heat lire. ♦ TORONTO. Ont.. May 19— The Canadian racing season of 1925 over the Canadian Racing Associations circuit will be ushered in next Saturday at Woodbine with the Kings Plate, the oldest stake race run continuously on the North American continent, the outstanding attraction of a stellar inaugural program that, with auspicious weather prevailing, will be witnessed by a tremendous crowd. The Kings Plate is the most coveted turf prize offered in Canada and each year the day on which this long established race Is decided finds visitors here by the thousands from all over the Dominion. Their excellencies, the Governor General of Canada, Lord Byng of Vimy and Lady Byng and staff, will be in attendance at the opening of the spring meeting of the Ontario Jockey Club at Woodbine Park next Saturday, and while in the city will be the guests of his honor, the lieutenant-governor at the government house. Their excellencies will attend the races In state, with postillions and outriders, with an escort from the Royal Canadian Dragoons on Saturday. May 23 opening day and on Monday. May 25 Victoria Day, entering by the j I new entrance on Woodbine Avenue at the i I head of the home stretch just before the first I race, and proceeding down the track to the | j members enclosure where they will be re-1 | ceived by the president and officers of the I jockey club. Within the last few dnys a great array of ! horses has arrived at Woodbine and many owners were forced to find accommodations outside the track or move over to Thorn-1 I cliffe Park. Among the late arrivals were the horses of H. G. Bedwell. Seagram Stable, Nevada Stock Farm Stable. Greentree Stable, J. Arthur. E. F. Whitney, R. T. Wilson, T. J f Francis, Mrs. L A. Livingston. J. Kermath and C. Douglas. Other shipments included the stables of G. W. Foreman. J. Farrell, R. F. Carman, Queen City Stable, W. Wilson. E. P. Summerfield. T. Donohue and Frank Farrar. When Tim Donohue and Frank Far- i rar reached here with their charges they were forced to go to Thorncliffe Park for I j stabling room. While it was feared in some quarters there would be a shortage of horses in Canada this summer, owning to the increased number of tracks in the Inited States, it is evi- I | dent that Canada will have as many horses i as she can handle, especially when no conflict of dates occurs. I
