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GREAT BRITAIN IN GRAND FORM FORMllcndrie llcndrie ThreeYearOld Wins Handicap in Closo to Track Record Time at Montreal Montreal Que September 10 A wellbalanced program was provided by the Montreal Jockey Club this afternoon Three of the races were handicaps two had allowance conditions another was for maiden jockeys and the remaining one was a selling affair at a mile and an eighth eighthThe The Karl Grev Cup the feature race of the after ¬ noon gave George M Ilendries threeyearold Great Britain an opportunity of showing his quality He conceded weight to everything In the race hut G M Miller and Plate Glass and ran the mile and a quarter in i i4 winning from Plate Glass under a pull by a couple of lengths At no time during the running did the race appear In doubt as Obert had Groat Britain under restraint all the way The time was within a fraction of a second of the track record and almost two seconds faster than the slake was ever before run in In his present oruu it is doubtful it there Is a threeyearold in the country capable of taking Great Britain measure He Is in particularly good shape just now and should cut an important ligure In the stakes to be run at Toronto and later on in Kentucky where he will be shipped at the conclusion of the Canadian racing season seasonThis This was the sixtii running of the Karl Grey Cup the brief history of which is as follows Year Winner AWt Jockey Val Time 1908 Martin Doyle C 120 J Howard 1285 liB 1I09 Tcrah 4 111 Rettig 1500214 1910 SnolllKinnd 4 1O1 J Wilson 1315 2Wi 1911 Sir J Johnson 0 1111 G Burns 1235 20i 1912 Edda 4 113 Sweeney 1095 2OS 1913 Great Britain 109 Obert 111X1 204 204Distance Distance in 1HOS one mile and an eighth eighthForm Form was well observed during the afternoon four favorites and a wellbacked second choice accounting for five of the purses The best finish of the after ¬ noon came with the running of the third race an allowance affair at seven furlongs for which Cal ¬ gary ruled a 2 to 5 favorite Calgary llattered Us admirers by taking the lead shortly after the start and keeping it until well Inside the final fur ¬ long where Kaliuka caught him The pair fought it out through the last sixteenth and at the end the Carman filly proved the gamer and bent Calgary a neck neckThe The race for maiden riders went to Toddling which came from behind In thehomestrrteh t iitji t the lengthOnly pacemaker Rubicon II 0 length Only two of the sev n stiVnirifflll tlmisteeplochaso finished the course without tfllshan Nohle llacewell octopus and Jin Jitiu losing their vWUK at various jumps while Come On refused i the first fence Im Jttsu had a long lead when Beamish fell oft at the thirteenth jump He was caught and re ¬ mounted and got third money Lizzie Flat and Clan Alpine were the two that stood up and the former lengthsW won off by twenty lengths W I Biggs who has been acting as one of the stewards at Blue Bonnets left for his home in Bal ¬ timore this evening The condition book for the Plmlico fall meeting will be distributed among the horsemen next week weekP P J Millett owner of the filly Erin which won here on Monday was an arrival from Kentnckv this morning This is Mr Milletts first visit to Blue Bonnets and he was much impressed with the beautiful course courseN N B Davis reported to tho stewards that jockev Dennler had left his employ and as the lad is under contract to Davis the various racing bodies have been notified Dennlers badge was laken up by the local stewards and horsemen were warned against harboring the lad ladAbe Abe Rubenstein murdered sheet writer for book ¬ maker Nathan Shapiro was sometimes known as Charles Robinson He had 200 in his possession when ho parted with friends outside the Russell House at Ottawa at midnight on August 28 which was the last seen or heard of him by his acquain ¬ tances until his remains were discovered yesterday in a vacant store It is thought that a woman figures in the case and that it is possibly a case of rob berv
