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j RESUME CANADIAN RACING AT LONG BRANCH TRACK TODAY j jOrpen Orpen Memorial Handicap to Be j j Renewed on Saturday Program j jTORONTO TORONTO Ont June 3 After a weeks lull in a very young Canadian racing season J the sport of kings will be resumed at the Long Branch Jockey Club on Wednesday where Fred S Orpen and his associates play j host to followers of the thoroughbred for a sevenday period With the fans appetites J 1 merely whetted by one week of racing at j j Woodbine Park enthusiasm over the coming session is running high and there is every reason to believe that the impending meeting will be far and away the best the Lake Shore course has enjoyed in a number of years yearsLong Long Branch was alvays the favorite track of its late founder A M Orpen and under the efficient leadership of his son Fred S Orpen and his able aide George Hay has kept in stride with racings march of prog ¬ ress through recent years yearsUNIQUE UNIQUE TURSE DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTIONStellar Stellar attraction of the meeting is the 5000 added Orpen Memorial Handicap which will be contested next Saturday Fashioned for Canadianbred three and fouryearolds at one and onesixteenth miles it will bring together the cream of these two age divisions and its unique purse distribution will lend much interest to its running The final afternoon of racing will see the deciding of the Long Branch Handi ¬ cap in which the best horses in training will vie for the prize of 3000 added at one mile and a sixteenth sixteenthFollowers Followers of hurdle racing have not been overlooked three of these being carded throughout the meeting Many hurdlers not up to a race at the Woodbine meeting are slated to make their first appearance of the season at Long Branch
