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Its Sland-By Time For Queens Plate Training Grind Comes to End; Sweet Infinity Works 1 :41 2s; King Maple Heavy Favorite By JACK AYERS Staff Correspondent WOODBINE PARK, Toronto, Ont., June 9. With the trial of Mrs. R. Hulses Sweet Infinity in 1:41 over Woodbines well-manicured racing strip on Wednesday morning, the long and strenuous training grind leading up to the 95th running of the Queens Plate came to an end. It was at the turn of the year that the majority of eligibles for the Dominions most coveted turf prize entered the initial training stage. At that time, their activities were confined to lengthy gallops over straw-covered training rings, daily jogs under open-air shedrows and even jaunts through treacherous snow and ice covered paddocks. This was the "legging up" period of the grind. It was along about March 15 when Woodbine Still presented a winter postcard scene that most of the Plate candidates were transferred from winter quarters to the historic east-end course to commence serious conditioning for the nine-furlong fixture. Thirty-Six in Plate Trial No. 1 After a series of speed drills, lengthened with each outing, no fewer than 36 Canadian-foaled three-year-olds participated in the six furlongs of Plate Trial No. 1. This affair found many of the sophomores wanting and when the mile and seventy yards of Plate Trial No. 2 was offered a week ago Wednesday, a band of only 19 were still considered Plate timber by their conditioners. When the McMacken Stables King Maple and E. P. Taylors Queens Own recorded easy triumphs in Plate Trial No. 2, the weeding out process began in earnest. With each dawn of the past week, one or more eligibles have been declared out of the Plate until now it appears that only nine thoroughbreds will face starter Doug Haig Saturday. The next two days will be most anxious ones for the handlers of Guineas prospects. Their nights will be sleepless ones, too. There is always that chance that their charge may turn his head away from the feed bucket, the chief reason for many of. the eligibles being declared from the lineup the past two weeks. The McMacken Stables King Maple, who has thrived on his work for the event, continues in therole of top-heavy favorite and the small field will no doubt "enhance the son of Fairaris and Noon Maids chances. Following is the probable Queens Plate lineup: Horse. Jockey. King Maple H. Lindberg Queens Own B. Albert Staff Reporter C. Brown Collisteo C. Rogers Pancho A. Bavington Sweet Infinity E. Barber Heptad K. Clemes Hi Laude E. Roy Three Stripper T. Johnson
