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REDUCES CANADIAN RECORD S. C. HILDRETHS HAMPTON COUKT RUNS MILE OVER TURF COURSE IN 1:38. Report Circulated to Effect That Hildrcth Stable Is to Be Shipped to Shcepshcad Bay for a Rest Williams Riding Well Through Field. i HnmlKon. Out., August 17. S. C. Hildrcth sent his second -winner of the meeting to the post this afternoon when Hampton Court beat a Rood lot over tin; grass course in the Toronto Handicap. The Mr son of Galore was in line fettle. He outran his company all the way and reduced the Canadian mile record for a turf course by four-fifths of a second when he ran the distance in 1 :3S. Mr. Hildrcth has done none too well of late and has about decided to rest his horses until the opening of the meetings In Maryland. It is said that the entire stable will be shipped to Slieepshpad Kay on Monday next. Hamilton Court was an odds-on favorite in Ms race and the big operators prolited by his victory. The Liverpool Handicap steeplechase proved easv for Ticket of Leave. The latter shouldered the stitT impost of KiS pounds, made practically all of his own pace and won with great ease. He was ridden by Williams, who, by the way, has won all but one of the steeplechases run during the meeting. He has scored twice with Ticket of Leave and twice with Lizzie Flat. Guy Burns, riding in his old-time form, was responsible for Monsieur X.s victory in the sixtli race. He bent the harrier by at least a length with the colt and. when it came to a finish, lie made a rousing effort and managed to get Monsieur X. - to last long enough to stall off Flammas challenge and beat her a head. The selling race feuds that have been slumbering of late broke out afresh after J. 15. Hcspess won the seventh race with Forehead. Forehead was entered to 10 sold for . Sam Louis, who started .Sandrian in the race, advanced Forehead to ,500 and Mr. Respess let him go at that figure. Fore- head was easily best of his lield and was forced "ii orercoinc sharp interference to win. He was blocked when Loftus attempted to squeeze through on Urn inside on the turn out of the baekstretch and lost several lengths. He then came to the out-wide and. finishing with a fine burst of speed, drew away to win by five lengths from Kouuder. Hugh Penny has turned the apprentice rider Olson over to 1. S. 1 Randolph and the boy had his first mount for his new employer on Seven Stars today. Galatinc and At Once, in the Seagram stable, are on the shelf. Both came out of their last races lame and probably will not start until late in the season. Charles Koyie, whom race-goers in the United States will remember as a former partner of Charles Littlelield. is making a strong effort to breed a Kings Plater. lie mated three of his best mares sit his farm at AVoodstock this spring to good sires. John Dyment, who has been absent from the races all summer, was a visitor at Hamilton today. Mr. Dyment went to Alberta about two months ago to arrange for the transfer of six hundred horses that were grazing on the Dyment range. He will take up about half a dozen of the thoroushbreds that have been resting at Barrie and nice them at the Montreal and Toronto fall meetings. C. T. Patterson will ship the horses lie is training for Itohert Davies from here to the farm. He will race a few at Woodbine next mouth. Mr. Patterson is skipping the Windsor and Montreal meetings in order to take up and break the yearlings that his employer recently purchased in Kentucky, some of which arc said to be extra good lookers. "Soup" Perkins, a colored rider who achieved fame, dropped dead in his room here this morning of heart disease. Perkins rode the famous Henry of Navarre for the late Byron McClelland and was considered one of the leading riders of his day. He had been employed of late years as a clockcr. His body will be shipped to Lexington, Ky., for interment. Dr. J. S. Tyrce, whose colors have been prominent about the Maryland tracks, scored his first victory since shipping from Kaltimore .last spring when Cheek won the second race. "Billy" Oliver, who is handling the horses, will leave with the entire stable for Plmlico on Saturday. Thomas Healey and James Fitzsitnmons have decided to ship from here to Woodbine. Mr. Healey Will rest It. T. Wilsons horses until the opening of the Montreal meeting. Mr. Fitzsitnmons will probably send Superstition to Blue Bonnets to fill his stake engagements. The two-year-old. Dr. Watson, in the Carman stable, was excused from starting by the stewards. The colt developed fever over night but is not in serious danger. Lexington, Ky., August 17. .Tames "Soup" Perkins, who dropped dead at Hamilton, Out., was thirty-three years old. He was a native of Lexington and was among the foremost colored race riders in America. Perkins began his career in the saddle in the early nineties at the Lexington track and ended it at the meeting given by John .T. Ryan at the Newport track in the winter of 1902-1903. He was at ids ascendancy as a jockey in 1S95, when he headed the list of winning riders in this country. Perkins was a fearless rider, a splendid judge of pace and a strong finisher. 1 His first actual engagement was witli the veteran Peter Wiinmer. Later he rode for Scoggan Bros., tapt. S. S. Drown, Charles Fleischtnann and others. Iiut his greatest successes were achieved while lie was under engagement to the late Byron McClelland, many times winning great victories in his silks and on his racers. The last years of his life Perkins devoted "to timing horses for a select list or patrons I and he made a fairly good living thereby. Ho made a fortune as a jockey, "much of which lie gave to his mother, keeping her comfortable until her death. The remainder he spent in following the races after he became too heavy to ride. He was honest and was , generally- liked by both white1 and colored men of the turf.
