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Canadian Sport Returns To Toronto on Monday MondayOld Old Woodbine Opens for 24 Days Fleet Path Tops Frontenac Cap CapOLD OLD WOODBINE PARK Toronto Ont Canada May 4 Torontos spring racing season opens here on Monday for a span of 24 days It is Old Woodbine with the new look Since the last meeting was held here last autumn the scene at this historic course has been transformed The mile racing strip first opened for competition on September 16 1881 is gone In its place is a new threequarter mile oval with wide sweeping turns There is a mile and mile and a furlong chute The Ontario Jockey Club since taking over the unified opera ¬ tion of all race tracks in the Province has in but a few years completed a cycle of building and rebuilding to give Canadian followers of their No 1 sport the finest and most modern race courses found anywhere on the continent continentThe The OJC rebuilt Fort Erie built the new Woodbine which opened its inaugural meeting in June of last year and today they present a new departure in modern racing with the new sixfurlong track They be ¬ lieve the sport conducted over an oval of this circumference will have wide appeal such as it has enjoyed at Lincoln Downs in Rhode Island IslandEight Eight added money stakes are to be de ¬ cided at this session with the 10000 Eclipse Handicap the richest from a monetary standpoint Itbis for threeyearolds and upward at a mile and a sixteenth and will be run on Saturday May 25 25With With the relocation of the racing strip and the demolition of numerous barns ad ¬ ditional parking facilities have been made available A total of 5000 cars can now be parked within easy access of the grand ¬ stand and clubhouse clubhouseThe The six and onehalf furlongs of the Frontenac Handicap which will serve as top offering on the inaugural program has lured nine performers representing seven interests Highweight of the group is the stretchrunning Lanson Farms Fleet Path who will carry 120 pounds while operating coupled in the wagering with his nimble stablemate Ilite IliteFleet Fleet Path participated in two events at the Fort Erie meeting and in his last he closed with fine speed to be beaten less than two lengths by Larkin Maloney and Conn Smythes Pot Hunter who was suc ¬ cessful in his three starts at the Border oval Fleet Path will have an able running companion in Hite who established a new track record of 104 for five and onehalf furlongs during the Niagara frontier course meet
