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SEAGRAM HORSES SCORE WELL AT TORONTO BathLrick and Half a Crown Take Their Races Jockey Mulcahy in Bad Repute Toronto Out Tuna 2 Joseph Seagram president of tin Ontario Jockey Club furnished two of the winners at Woodbine this afternoon Bathbrick car ¬ rying the popular black and yellow sash to victory in the opening race while Illalf Crown after a gallant struggle won the Ontario purse The weather conditions could not well have lieeii improved on and the attendance was again large A majority of tlie race furnished keen contests with the eastern horsemen getting their share of the purses three of the winners coining from staples which usually cam ¬ paign on the metropolitan courses The Stanley Barracks Cup one of the annual fix ¬ tures of the spring meeting and the feature race of the day proved little better than a farce There were only two starters Firefly and Buffer and the latter lost his rider before they had gone one turn of the field Firelly which was ridden by her owner Mr Kerr cantered the remainder of the trip and won pulled up After Firctly finished the course Buffer was caught and remounted He went the course Init failing to finish within the time linrit was not placed second secondThree Three favorites won the successful choices being Firefly Msi Keta and Half a Crown Jockey Nicol who is again riding in his oldtime form rode two winners and a second secondSprit Sprit ran away six furlongs while on her way to the iK st in the fifth race and when the start came Murphy used good judgment in pulling the filly up upJockey Jockey Mulcahy who rode Kid Hoos in the opening race was ordered by the stewards not to accept any more mounts until further notice Mulcaliys riding here came in for n lot of criticism and his handling of Valley Farm horses led to his suspension by his employers1 Messrs Ilemlrle who refused to let the n y ride after their fast sprinter Denhain was beaten off by some ordinary horses T Rice the California jockey has been riding the Valley Funn horses during the past few days and they have guidanceThere all shown big improvement under his guidance There is Mime talk of n jnaUrh race between In ferjio and Martin Doyle to be run at Woodbine on Saturday next The conditions proposed is weight for age and the distance to be at one mile and a quarter quarterJames James Boden T W Hyan Burlew ONeill J Smyth and O Wilson will Srliip their stables to Montreal on Thursday On Friday the horses owned by James McLaughlin P M Civill H L Thomas and several others will leave for Blue Bonnets The prospects are that all of the big stables racing here will ship to Montreal The ring at Montreal which will be an open one will be managed by John Cavanangh
