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TORONTOS TORONTO QUEENS PLATE Few racegoers racehorse in the States have know ¬ ledge of the importance of the Toronto meeting from a Canadian point of view To them it is everything that is involved in a Washington Park meeting here or Sheepshead Shepherd at New York It is a very fashionable affair draws largely in attendance and the volume of speculation is very great And what an American Derby is to a Washington Park meeting the Queens Plate is to the Toronto meeting Of this feature of the recent meeting a Toronto correspondent of the Spirit of the Times says There have been Queens Plates run in the Province of Ontario that have excited more enthusiasm than yesterdays yet Bon Inos Winos vic ¬ tory was a memorable one When the daughter of Marauder and Bonnie Ino Indo passed the post an easy winner with her stablemate tablemate Dalmoor Dolor son of the St Simon horse Louis XIII and Lady Dalmeny Dolmen second Joseph E Seagram Member of Parliament distiller of good whisky and gen ¬ eral feral good fellow had won his eighth consecutive Queens Plate Mr Seagram is not more super ¬ stitious satiations than the usual run of men who like to back their fancy for love of the sport but he surely regards Judge Post as his mascot To win the Queens Plate had been the ambition firing Mr Seagrams Seagram soul for years but never had he succeeded till Mr A S Post was selected for the position of judge to the Ontario Jockey Club in 1891 Since that his nomination has never been beaten So who can blame Mr Sea ¬ gram if he pledges long life and happiness to the Judge each year after he has received the LieutenantGovernors Lieutenant certificate for 50 guin gin ¬ eas ears MajestyBon Majesty the gift of Her Majesty Bon Ino Indo had been the favorite for the Plato for months If Mr Seagram had thought he could win the Metropolitan or Brooklyn or Suburban Handicap or any other big race in the New York district with this fouryearold foretold he would not have started her even if he could have made 50000 There is real glory in win ¬ ning Ming the Queens Plate It is not a matter of dollars and cents though incidentally his stables success has helped Mr Seagrams Seagram busi bus ¬ ness and helped him to win a seat in Parlia Pariah ¬ ment meant The public placed its money on his stable yesterday as if the thing was all over bar the shouting Three horses wore the black and yellow the two named and The Tar like the others a fouryearold foretold a geld ¬ ing King by Marauder out of Lady May The stable was coupled in the betting One New York bookmaker told me that when he chalked up 3 to 10 on the stable the people came at him like wolves Then 1 to 4 next 1 to 6 and finally 1 to 10 and still the Canadians were ready to put up their money I stood to pay out 1200 on the Seagram stable before I knew what I was do ¬ ing King he said and when I tried to get some money in on the other horses I could not tempt them at any price At that Mr Dyments Doyens 3year old filly Majitana Mariana II by Courtown Countdown Annie D ran a rattling good race and gave Bon Ino Indo a stiff argument for seven furlongs Her jockey James was over anxious and would have landed second money if he had not gone to the whip pretty nearly three furlongs from home A sit was Dalmoor Dolor beat him out The Tar1 was a bad fourth The time 2 15i was very slow of course butthe butte horses carried their weight and the conditions call for horses owned bred raised and trained in the Province of Ontario that have never won a race either on the flat or across country have never left Canada and have never been for a period of more than one month out of this Province ProvinceAs Provinces As for the crowd that saw the Plate run for it was lovely It is a treat to see such a collec collect ¬ tion ion of pretty welldressed welders refined ladies and cleancut cleanouts gentlemen on a racecourse It was more like Ascot or Goodwood Godhood than Sheepshead Shepherd Bay Morris Park or Jerome Park ever was The attendance was very heavy though the weather was rather chilly and quite threaten ¬ ing King The club tand stand was a picture that no American racing man who saw it will ever for ¬ get This is my first experience and everybody tells me to wait for the Queens Birthday but yesterday filled my soul with joy
