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! Features of Todays Racing Calendar I The racing calendar for today is replete with important and valuable stake features, which, undoubtedly will furnish rare entertainment and enjoyment for the large crowds certain to witness these events. At Churchill Downs, Louisville, the Kentucky Oaks, as old as the Kentucky Derby, is the big attraction of the closing day program. The Kings Plate, the oldest continuously run turf event on the North American continent, will bring a capacity crowd to beautiful Woodbine Park, Toronto, for the opening of the Canadian racing season of 1932. The Metropolitan Handicap is the principal feature of the half-holiday program to be staged at palatial Belmont Park. The fields for the various stake events to be run today are shown below: METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 20.— The following are the prospective starters in the Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park tomorrow: Horse. Wt. Jockey. Epithet 114 Ellsworth Sun Meadow 118 Watters Flag Pole 101 Coucci Mate 128 Mr. Bostwick Ironclad 110 . . : Hanf ord Pilate 114 Robertson Osculator 108 Knapp Pompeius 115. Ensor Equipoise 125 Workman KINGS PLATE. TORONTO, Ont., May 20.— The following are the prospective contestants for the Kings Plate, ,500 added and fifty guineas, three-year-olds and over, foaled in Ontario, at one mile and a furlong, to be run at Woodbine Park tomorrow: Horse. Wt. Jockey. King OConnor 112 J. H. Burke Royal Guest 122 W. McCabe Miss Gormley 107 N. Foden Easter Dandy 112 J. OMalley Skygazer 127 Spey Crest 112 L. Schaefer Fragrant Gift 112 H. Osborne Bronze 127 Queensway 112 F. Mann Shady Well 112 E. Legere Serfman 112 C. Ralls Easter Hatter 117 G. Riley KENTUCKY OAKS. LOUISVILLE, Ky, May 20.— The field for the Kentucky Oaks with post positions, starters, weights and riders follows: PP. Horse. Wt. Jockey. 1— Light Eagle 109 E. Pool 2— Jodie K 109 3 — Princess Camelia 116 C. Landolt 4 — Modern Queen . . .116 C. Meyer 5— Tweeny 109 H. R. Riley 6— Joretta 116 C. Corbett 7 — Suntica 116 A. Pascuma 8 — Depression 116 W. Garner 9— Prefer 116 10 — Oscillation 116 E. Ambrose 11— I Say 116 C. E. Allen FRASER MEMORIAL. TORONTO, Ont., May 20— The field for the Fraser Memorial Handicap Steeplechase, four-year-olds and over, at about two miles, follows: Horse. Wt. Jockey. Le Bey 150 J. Simpson Channing L 136 Muskogee 150 W. Moals Olan C 135 P. McCann Crumpler 150 A. Harraway Thistle John 137 H. McAffee Alpheus 133 1. Wren Huon Joy 140 N. Coe Jack Whittier 130 G. McCann Billycock :140 C. Frosch
