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New Datesof July 12-15 For Royal Ascot Meet Postponement to Upset Training Schedules of Top English Runners Special to Daily Racing Form LONDON, England, June 13 Reuters. — The four - day Royal Ascot meeting, highlight of the British turf season, has been postponed to July 12 to July 15, inclusive, stewards of the English Jockey Club announced today. Final acceptors for all 24 races remain as issued last week in the "Racing Calendar," official publication of the Jockey Club. Enforced alterations to the stake list were made at a special meeting of the Jockey Club held today as a result of the national railway strike. The new date for the Royal Ascot meet means this meeting will run into July 16, the Ascot Heath fixture on which day the King George VI. and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Britains richest turf prize of the year, is to be run. The postponement of the Royal meeting with its 96,000 prize money to be competed for by about 300 of Europes best thoroughbreds is a very serious matter for j race course executives, owners, jockeys, trainers and their stable staffs. The postponement will upset the training schedules of top-class two- and three-year-olds. The preparation of all race horses is based on the fundamental plan of campaign laid down in the Jockey Clubs fixtures beginning with the One and Two Thousand Guineas classics in the spring, the Epsom Derby in May, Royal Ascot in June, Good-Wood in July and through to Doncasters St. Leger meeting in September. The movement of the Royal Ascot meet from its traditional position will upset the balance of the whole racing season. All ante-post bets on any of the Royal fixtures originally arranged for this week become void under Tattersalls betting rules.
