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HAMILTONS BIGGEST CROWD GREAT THRONG SEES BLACKFORD BEAT EDDA IN CONNAUGHT SELLING STAKES Schorr Mare Meets with Bad Racing Luck and Loses Losesby by a Neck Leochares an Easy Winner and andLittle Little Nephew Takes Another Purse Hamilton Ont Juno 28 Uichard E Walking furnished the winners of two feature races here this afternoon Barnegat taking the Grlmsby Handicap a dash of one iiiile anil a sixteenth for threeyear olds while Blackford heat Kdda a neck in the Connaught Sellhu Stakes 1500 added 0 Turner had tlie mount on both horses and also rode Visible which won the sixth race beating Simcoe a head in a driving finish finishThe The attendance was the largest in the history of the Hamilton Jockey Club A splendid program was provided and keen racing resulted Leochares was the only winner that had more than a length to spare at the linisli The Schorr colt beat a band of fast sprinters in the first race a dash of six furlongs He made all of his own pace and beat The Widow Moon by a couple of lengths With a little bettor racing luck the Schorr stable would have scored Jn the Connaught Selling Stakes with Kdda The latter had bad hick from the start She had an inside post position and when the break came was crowded back Ncylon kept her running along the rail until just before making the turn for home where it did not look as if he had a chance of getting through lie then went to the outside of the leaders and on the home turn Fountain Fay swerved and carried her extremely wide Kdda made a gal ¬ lant effort but the ground she lost cost her the race She forced Blackford to a hard drive to beat her by a neck neckThis This was the second running of the Connaught Sell ¬ ing Stakes Its brief history is as follows Year Winner AWt Jockey Val Time 1012 Altamaha 4 9 Wolfe 1115 l4ii lfM3 l4iilfM3 Blackford 7 105 O Turner 1340 147 147Little Little Nephew was good enough to carry Killings worth and win the tiftli race He led from the Mart and was never headed The Livingston entry M t Iilot aul 1civet Petal finished second and third Vandergrift the second choice was crowded against tlm iusidu fence at the start and lluxton was forced to pull him up The upThe only runup of the afternoon came after Kffendi won the seventh race It was a selling affair the conditions calling for all to be entered to be sold for 500 Wayne Lewis acting for A U Bresler bid Kffendi up to 700 and lie was re ¬ tained by liis owner Sam Louis LouisSeveral Several horsemen among them Willie Shields and K J Mcraw left for New York to attend the sale of the Kohler horses horsesJohn John Fennessy who has been booking at Mon ¬ treal and Ottawa left las night for Butte where he dayII will cut iu on the opening day II G Bedwell claimed My Fellow from Amos Tnrney after the colt was beaten yesterday Jwyn yesterdayJwyn Tompkins jumper Ballyhack that was taken sick with pneumonia hero a few days ago died this morning morningJockey Jockey C Knight was granted a license by the stewards of the Canadian Hacing Associations at their meeting yesterday yesterdayThe The stewards are looking into the HorronIIaw thprn race They had Jockey Gross and Trainer Trevey on the stand this afternoon questioning them C F Buschmeyer was greatly disappointed over Hawthorns showing The gelding will be shipped to Saratoga shortly to be rested up upTed Ted Koeruer who is at Saratoga in charge of a division of John Sandfords horses will resume riding during the Saratoga meeting
