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OTTAWA FINISHES ARE CLOSE CLOSECarlton Carlton G Is Returned Winner of Handicap Seven Thousand in Attendance Ottawa Out June 20 Stirring contests were seen at Connaiight Park this1 afternoon driving llnishes marking a majority of the races In three of them the smallest of margins separated the lirst two and in two the winners remained in doubt until the ollicial placing was displayed li was Ladies Day the second of thcMe occasions during the meeting and a recordbreaking crowl was in attendance General Manager Hohrback re ¬ ported over 7000 people present which exceeded by almost 2000 the attendance of the opening day Twentylive layers were in line and speculation was exceedingly brisk briskIn In the feature race Carlton O beat a band of shifty sprinteis He was leniently treated by the handiciippcr and everything In tile race1 race1was was conced ¬ ing him weight W Dunn had the mount and rode a good race reserving CarltMi behind the fast pace that Flex set for the first three furlongs In entering the homestretch when the Gallaher mare began to weaken Carlton moed up with a rush and in the linal furlong he dnw away into an easy lead to win with plenty In reserve reserveLouise Louise Travi rs showed a goal performance in tlie opener a dash of four and a half furlongs In previous races Loulse Travcrs showed scant iarlv speed but today Montour kept her well up with the front rank In the stretch she went to the outside and in the last sixteenth swerved over to the rail but coming on agai i just managed to get up in the filial stride to beat tally Waters a nose noseThe The finish of the second race wa also cVose tho firsit three fighting it out through the homestretch and Love Day got up in the last jump to beat Sir Raymond The latter was backed from 50 to 20 to 1 He left thu birrler with a rush sprinted into the lead and just failed to last Had lie woi some of the layers would have suffered heavily Daisy Platt the favorite was beaten a head for second place Tho seventh race also found the first thre liend apart Incision Cutie IS and Star Gift finishing us named namedThe The stewards at Comiaught Park have recom ¬ mended to the committee of the Canadian Racing Associations that the suspension imposed oi jutkey Small be lifted at the conclusion of flic Ottawa meeting Small got into trouble over a weak weakort ort on Upright It was known that he had been beenlucing lucing excessively and after dismounting from one of his mounts that afternoon he fainted The In ¬ vestigation failed to disclose anything wrong Small has been engaged by John Wlialcu to ride the Ham ¬ burg threeyearold Buskin In the Hamilton Derby which will be run on Wednesday next nextGeorge George Walker formerly trainer for John W Schorr dishing Ortli and later on for the Messrs Weinberg in Germany has been engaged to train the horses owned by the Messrs Dyment Walker reported at the Dyment farm at Iarrle Out yesterday and has assumed the management of the stable Some of the Dypient horses will be raced at Hamilton HamiltonThe The stable of A L Aste including the good colt Ten Point has arrived at Hamilton Ten Point will be a starter in the Hamilton Derby on Wed ¬ nesday next and Gross will have the mount mountR R P Marshalls horses have arrived at Hamilton from Kentucky That fast filly The Widow Moon is one of the lot that Will Wallace brought up with the Marshall string stringTlie Tlie Hastings gelding Hawthorn is training ex ¬ cellently at Hamilton for his derby engagement He worked a mile this morning In 141 handily handilyThe The horses owned by F J Puns will lie shipped from Uelmont Park to Hamilton on Monday next nextLove Love Day was bid up ftOO ami lioiight by J W BurttHchell L M Kckert was advanced from GOO to SOO by J W Hedrick but was retained
