THE KING AND QUEEN
VISIT TO THE RACES
RACE FOR KING'S PLATE
(Received May 23, 10.30 a,ftii)
TORONTO, May 22.
• Their Majesties .were among 100,000 people at Woodbine Park, who saw the favourite Arch worth register a runaway victory in the eightieth face for
the KingV Plate, the oldest continu-ously-run horse. race in North America. The King annually, contributei 50 guineas for the winning owner. The event is for horses running* their first race as three-year-olds, Arch--worth led throughout, and won by ten lengths from Sea General, a grandson of Man o' War. The distance of the* race was nine furlongs, and the winner's time was Imin 54sec.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 119, 23 May 1939, Page 10
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108THE KING AND QUEEN Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 119, 23 May 1939, Page 10
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