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NEEDED A STSONG JOCKEY JOCKEYEXPERIMENT EXPERIMENT OF CHANGING RIDERS WORKS WELL IN HEARTS OF OAKS CASE Giddings ThreeYearold Makes Amends for His HisRecent Recent Defeat When Peak Is Substituted Substitutedfor for Gray in Durham Cup Toronto Out Sent ember 24 Hearts of Oak champion of the Canadianbred threeyearolds showed Ills quality at Woodbine this afternoon and made amends for his previous defeats during the meeting when he galloped home an easy winner In uc Durham Cup a 15 X stake the conditions of which willed for a journey of a mile and three quarters Hearts of Oak carried 122 pounds and showed that lie Is equally good at sprinting or staying There was u change of riders on tlu colt this aUernoon that brought an improvement in nis running The regular stable jockey H Cray was taken down and C Peak was given the mount Gray is a light lad and not stout enuiigli to Handle a big heavybeaded horse like Hearts of Oak ieak held him well together and at no stage of rbir journey was Hie result in doubt Hearts of Oak UKii the lead at the start and never relinquishing it won easily by a couple of leagih from Lindesta The pae was fast all the way and tlie time for the mile and threequarters 301 was not much blower than the track record fo the distance distanceThi Thi Durham Cup was first raced for in 3000 and its history is as follows Year Winner AUt Jockey Val Time TimeIflOl IflOl Inferno 4 131 C Koeruer 1100 302 1107 Kelpie I 107 Mnlcaby 11 30r 30r1JOS 1JOS Inferno i 135 Musgrave llir 30t 1009 Seismic 4 11 Musgrave 1130 305 3051JIO 1JIO Seismic 5 1120 Musgrave 1140 310 1011 Uenliam 7 122 C Peak 1000 310 1 12 Calumny I 105 D MeCthy 1210 07 asm Hearts of Oak 122 C Ieak 1045 304 304wyn wyn Tompkins showed up a likely jumper in todays steeplechase in Turbine which found no trouble in beating the veteran Young Morpheus The latter held command until the last half mile where Turbine moved up and easily assuming the Uad won in a romp by half a dozen lengths lengthsOnly Only two favorites scored the successful choices being Tom Holland and Calgary Speculation was keener openingThe than on any day since the opening The best finish of the afternoon came with the running of the second race a dash of six furlongs for twoyearolds which went to Harbard by a nose over Stevesta Tiktok the favorite was third The latter has come from behind in his races Today he was out in front making the pace and this rulnul his chances The race was with selling condi ¬ tions and three claims were put in for Tiktok after bo was lKaten all of them by local men J Green ¬ wood W 1 Mclllmurray and J IV Ferguson The llrstnamod secured him for 1380 Mr Greenwood is the person who purchased Hosturtlnm last fall from X 15 Davis at a big figure The colt went wrong last spring and has never gone to the post for bis new owner ownerT T I Hayes leaves tomorrow for Kcntuckv with his horses His rider W W Taylor will remain lure for the rest of the Woodbine meeting and will have the mount on Lindesta in the Ontario Jockey Club Cup on Saturday SaturdayStanley Stanley Davis who has been riding in Belgium for the past two years for Tbco Meyers was a visitor at Woodbine this afternoon Davis who is a native of Toronto will suend a few days with his people before leaving for Laurel where he expects to ride for I M Hurcli HurcliThe The sale of the Schreiber thoroughbreds last night realized over 10000 The lot averaged over 400 Sigma Alpha a threeyearold brought the top price of 725 lie was purchased by J Laxton a local turfman turfmanJoseph Joseph McLennan has been instructed by Manager I5ob Levy to prepare the conditions for the races for tin Norfolk meeting and the book will be issued next week weekWork Work on the construction of the now steel and concrete stand at Woodbine will begin on Monday next and the structure will he completed for the opening of the meeting here next spring
