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HAWTHORN BADLY BEATEN C I BUSCHEMEYERS SPEEDY GELDING FIN ¬ ISHES THIRD IN HAMILTON RACE Crack Son of Hastings and White Thorn Makes Un ¬ accountably Poor Showing and WellBacked Horron Is Returned the Winner Hamilton Out June 27 One of the most re ¬ markable reversals seen on the Canadian circuit this season came with the running of todays feature race at Hamilton the Wenlwortli Plate nix furlongs 1200 added and in which the heavily backed oddsou favorite Hawthorn was beaten off eight lengths by Horron and Calgary On the opening day in the inaugural dash Ifawtliorn ran away from equally as good company winning in 111 pulled tip lie carried 94 pounds in that race while today he carried 1111 iHiunds Montour was posted to ride Hawthorn but at the last mlu nte a shift was made lo Gross It is also said ihat Trainer Trevey did not want to start the gelding claiming that he was not at himself At all events Hawthorn was soundly beaten He broke slowly was outpaced from the lirst jump anil was a distant third at the finish Horron was heavily supported He set a fast pace all the way going the lirst half mile in 40 f Calgary kept him close company to the sixteenth post where the Turney colt began to draw away and in passing the judges he led Calgary by half a length with Hawthorn a staggering third It is possible that Hawthorn may have been tampered with or he may be on the verge of a sickness At all events this good racers loss of speed in two days should lie explained in some manner according to the public view viewThe The tabled history of the Wcntworth Plate is as follows followsYear Year Winner AWt Jockey Val Time 1007 Ii Pucelle 5 100 Moreland 070 115 1MS braggadocio 110T linker till 111 1001 Hose Queen 3 107 Mcntry 1000 113 1010 Dcnhani 100 Pease 990 111 111rtll rtll Priseillian ill C H Shilg 905 111 111UUi UUi Kittle Father 4 111 Loftus 005 11 191 Horron 3 115 C Turner a 05 1111 1111The The maiden steeplechase brought out a lield of live of which two linished the course without mis hiip Old Salt Onaping and Lena fell the latter at the last fence where she had a commanding lead She was caught and remounted and finished third Tile winner turned up in Morpcrth which beat Irene Guinmcll out twelve lengths lengthsThe The closest finish of the afternoon came with the running of the race over the turf course in which Mull came from behind and just managed to get up in time lo lieat Daisy Platt a head headThe The committee of the Canadian Hacing Associa ¬ tions held a meeting this morning and several appli ¬ cations for licenses were passed on The matter of the Mystic Lights steeplechase run on the closing day of the Blue Bonnets meeting at Montreal vas also taken up and as a result of the investigation the further entries of the horses Enniskillcn and Stairs were ordered refused Jockey Heatings budge was also taken up and he was ordered off the grounds No action was taken in the Astc case The roiMirt on the affair was not turned in by the local stewards ind the matter will probably be taken up at the next meeting In the meantime Mr Aste bus left for New York It is said the ruling of Presiding Steward J A Murphy does not affect the stake engagements of the Aste horses horsesiwynii iwynii Tompkins was an arrival this morning Ballyhack one of the jumpers he sent here in charge of M Daly was stricken with pneumonia a few days ago and if lie recovers he will lie sent hack to Virginia to be turned out for the season
