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44 THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE, Thursday, May 19, 1905 -172 DAYS FOR PUNTERS - Western Canada's Horse-Racing Season [zuriunizansns aon "Z¥DMONTON (CP) --. Western "Canada's horse-racing season ex- "1ends nearly five months this year. "The prairie season opens May 21 "and the Pacific coast's dates end Oct. 10, " The Prairies will have 88 days "of racing with purses aggregating $723,700 compared with 1954's 87 "days and 000 in purses. The coast season calls for 84 days with $610,000 in purses. the purse in the Alberta Derby, dlso run at Edmonton in August, COAST CLASSICS On the coast the classics are the B.C, Futurity with a purse of $3,000 added and the B.C. Nursery Stakes with $2,500 added. Both are | { for two-year-olds, The top purses at the coast are the $5,000-added B.C. Premiers Handicap and the $5,000,-added 8, W. Randall Plate, An innovation at the coast this Racing on the Prairies has come | season is the award of a B.C.-bred a long way since the early days{ yearling valued at $1,000 to the when R. J. (Jim) Speers | os, the | winner of the top race at Exhibition C western Canada fair ein conducted under the control of men who were in the book-making bus- iness, | expected to run at the coast this | year are Pursuit Thus season has seven features | owned by Jack 'Diamond, vice- was | Park In Vancouver Sept. 17, Among the standout campaigners a six-year-old with purses of more than $5000 president of the Vancouver Turf British Empire Games Has $26,528 Surplus But May Owe' $181,222 | VANCOUVER (CP)~The British last summer's Empire Games here. But the actual deficit was ap- Extended To Almost Five Full Months | 5 aces Willie Marsh Jr., sensation of two Ei years ago, the veteran Harvey Dun- Bootie g Stadium yooling and can, Donald Ross, 'Jimmy Fitz-| The society, however, denies ve- simmons, Jimmy Mason and Hank sponsibility for the additional costs, Matthews, p acing them as city charges: Total The prairie season is divided as |cOst building the stadium is tollows : shown as $1,371,846, plus the light. and roofing costs. financial report shows ex- simile Rgad Bg construction facilities; administra. Edmonton --uly 18 to July 28 | tion $97,478; publicity and promo- Regina-Aug, 1 to Aug, § tion THT on Snizational t : A nses ; sports equipmen ro i oro 969, anfl ticket offing travel wn fhe Fog Sime tice 1048, 4 is NG sundy 'expeives JH: ere wi racing on Vancouver g uded island, The coast season opens at er Hama " fpcoms Ick city Vancouver's Lansdowne Park |gtadium by-law; $600,000 in grants where it continues to Aug. 3. From | from feder: ovincial and civic Aug. 5 to Sept. 19 the horses will | government: ,000 from the sale Calgary--May 21 to May/28 Winnipeg~June 4 to July 6 Calgary---~July 9 to July 16 each, The Canadian Derby at Win-| Club, and Quality Quest, a four- nipeg's Polo Park carries $10,000! year-old trained by Jackie Russell added. The Bpeed-to-3pare Handi-| which won six straight on Van- cap at Edmonton in August has | couver tracks last year. Pursuit $8,000 added, and $7,000 added Is|won $25,000 at Tanforan last year, r ----- MANY CONTENDERS A L Cl b L { Approximately 450 horses are ex- | pected to be on hand for the prairie ni. u S 00. | inaugural at Calgary and the horse . colony is expected to swell to 625 To Washin ton [ for the 28-day Winnipeg season g | running from June 4 to July 6, The big purses probably will at- To Bu Talent tract high quality horses to the Y Prairies and one of the top cam-| | paigners is a newcomer, Gipsy | WASHINGTON. (AP--The front. | Buon rs Io Ter rom. Ire. | yunning clubs In the American |jand. League reportedly are after some| Giney Rover, acquired in Call- of the better talent playing for the | tornia by R B. (Snap) Lawson of seventh - place Wasbligion Sena. | Edmonton, is a three-year-old son parently is in a mood to consider of lmpectaple Water Gypsy by any good offers, | "A first-class Jockey colony is also | The Senators' woeful early sea-| secured for the Prairies including son showing has sent Washington | mere officials hunting desperately for a first class shortstop and a solid hitting outfielder, Calvin Griffith, Washington's ex- ecutive vice-president, sald Tues- day the New York Yankees have indicated interest in two of the Senators' better. pitchers, probably Bob Porterfield and Mickey Me- Dermott, "Yurthermore, the Cleveland In- dians--now leading the league-- w known to be in the market for | ashington first baseman Mickey Vernon, currently hitting around 312. Thé Chicago White Sox, in second place a half game ahead of | New York, are said to be high on Nat outfielder Roy Sievers. | S0X WANT YOST | And the Boston Red Sox, ecur-| rently in fifth place, reportedly | want Washington third baseman | Eddie Yost | In New York, an informant said | the Indians had offered four play-| ers for Vernon--outfielders Dave | Philley and Wally Westlake, first | Biss basement Joe Altobelli and third | Ss baseman Rudy Regalado. Griffith | confirmed that Hank Greenberg, | Cleveland's general manager, had | / come up with an offer "pretty | much along those lines." Griffith sald the Yanks have been seeking some of Washington's | itchers, but he would not identify | hem. If the Senators should send | EEESEEEERCH ORCI one of their pitchers to New York, | el lel 4 4 fad: they probably would ask for Elston Oe Howard, the Yankees' Negro catcher, In return, See Our Display of FIREWORK For a complete selection of fireworks at a wide price range it's "WEST- ERN TIRE and AUTO SUPPLY" race at Vancouver's Exhibition of television righ Park. On the island at Sandowr|a special canva Park in Sydoey, about 10 miles hig sales. from Victoria, races will be staged | ----------rmm----er-- from Sept. 24 to Oct. 10. effect a new Jule Adopted by the neorpora 'anadign Racing As- By THE CANADIAN PRESS soriations permitting no more than REMEMB R WHEN , . two starters from one stable in a Woodbine Park racetrack in Tor | race on mile tracks, and not more onto 10 years ago today put into than one on a half-mile track. 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