KING’S PLATE
DISESTABLISHED RACE IN CANADA ATTENDED BY THEIR MAJESTIES. FAVOURITE SCORES RUNAWAY VICTORY. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day. 10.25 a.m.) TORONTO, May 22. Their Majesties were among the hundred thousand spectators at Woodbine Park, where the favourite. Archworth, won a runaway victory in the eightieth running of the King’s Plate, the oldest continuously run horse race in North America. The King annually contributes 50 guineas for the winning owner. Running his first race as a three-year-old, Archworth led throughout, and won by 10 lengths from Sea General, a grandson of Man-o’-War. The distance was 9 furlongs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1939, Page 6
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99KING’S PLATE Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1939, Page 6
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