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LONG BRANCH OPENS TODAY Racing Scene on Canadian Circuit Shifts to Orpen Track After Thorncliffe Close. TORONTO, Ont, June 9. Without any interruption in the calendar racing on the Canadian circuit shifts to the Lake Shore course of the Long Branch Jockey Club on Wednesday for the spring meeting of seven days, and from all indications another banner meeting is in store for racing patrons who were instrumental in making the recent meetings of the Ontario Jockey Club and the Thorncliffe Racing and Breeding Association successful. Taking the opening day program as a criterion and judging by the large colony of horses available to choose from in drawing up the daily programs, all that is needed to favor the meeting is sum-merlikc weather. Racing secretary Charles F. Henry, who joined the Orpen circuit last season, has prepared a smart opening day card for the introduction of the Lake Shore track meeting, which is topped by the Maple Leaf Handicap, a dash of one mile and one-sixteenth, for which a purse of ,200 will be the lure for the six: handy performers that accepted the weights. The plant proper looks better than at any time since its. erection. Trees and shrubbery have been liberally distributed and paint lavishly applied. The track itself is fast and safe. The mutuel department has everything in readiness to handle record crowds. The innovation of the electro-photo finish camera is certain to find favor with the patrons. In use for the first time at any Canadian track, the "mechanical judge" was quickly grasped by the alert Orpen management as another innovation to safeguard the interests of the public.
