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WINNIPEGS TWO MEETINGS Polo Park Opens June 13 With Whittier Park Following, Each for Seven Days. WINNIPEG, Man., June 3.— The Spring racing season here opens for the customary fourteen days on Saturday, June 13. There will be seven days at Polo Park, followed by a similar period at Whittier Park. 5,-000 in purses will be distributed during the fortnight. George W. Schilling is again the presiding steward, with Robert S. Shelley, the racing secretary and presiding judge. James Donovan is starter, as usual, and both meetings are under the general management of R. James Speers. The Polo Park track has been extended at the head of the homestretch so that a mile and seventy yard races start with a long straightaway run for slightly over three furlongs. A new extensively covered mutuel pavilion has been erected at Whittier Park, with an enclosed stairway from the grandstand for use in inclement weather. The club house has been rebuilt into a double-decker, with a commodious mutuel hall on the ground floor. A series of new barns are completed at both parks so that there will not have to be any vanning of horses each racing day as previously. R. James Speers has invented and placed on the track a new portable starting gate which has met with the critical approval of the many horsemen arriving from Aurora, Kansas City, Toronto and other points. There are already sixty-eight horses in the barns, with a special train leaving Calgary next Sunday, which will have the majority of the 360 horses on board which have been campaigning at the two Alberta race meetings. *
