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CLOSELY FOUGHT FINISHES AT TORONTO. Giddings Sells His Failure, Harry Bassett II. — Egmont Bought Back by His Former Owner. Toronto, int.. September 90. — Stirring finishes were the order at Woodbine this afternoon, the winner; in a majority of the race- being under hard drives to win by small margins. In the opener Typhoon just managed to net up in time to beat Trout Fly in the Baal stride. In the third Orpcrth. Star of I.ove and Beau It re were head- apart in pa-sin;; the judges. the al tendance was again large and. with the track in perfect condition, fast time was again recorded. Blank* for the Double Event, to be run at Windsor ill 1017, were distributed among the horsemen. This -take carries a value of 4,000, besides a hands., .ne piece of plate. II. Wilson has purchased fr.uu II. Giddings the Canadian-bred Harry Bassett II. :. L. Brysou was an arrival from Montreal this morning with Sepalveda and st. Laaerian. W. T. Anderson also arrived with his big string. Jockey Ambrose left for his home in Brooklyn yesterday to rest up until the opening of the meet it.g at Laurel. Ambrose was shaken up by the fall he received at Dorval and felt as though lie needed a rest. Dgmont. winner of the seventh race Saturday, wa- bought by Henry McDaniel for 00. K. A. White, owner of Coi-ican. also bid on the horse, but -topped at 00. William Walker purchased the horse back this morning. Jockey P. Teahan. who wa- restored to good -landing by the stewards of the Canadian Racing Associations at their meeting on Saturday, left for Louisville, where he will resume riding. I. J. l.ryan i- acting as an ollicial at Woodbine for the first time. Mr. Bryan is one of the a-so-ciate stewards. He leaves for New York at the cumin-ion of the meeting here to arrange for the fall meeting at Piping Rock. He 1- loud in his praise of the maimer in which the sport is conducted at Woodbine and predicts thai many American owa-ers of steeplechasers will be lure with their horses next spring. There are only three named for the Minoru Handicap tomorrow, but despite this the management al 1 iwi-il the race to stand instead of splitting em- of three -quarter daahes. Prime Mover hi one of those entered. Mrs. living-ton came here to lace her horses and it would be unfair to her to declare the race on because there were only three acceptances. "1 he Ontario Jockey Clubs first aim is to keep up the standard of the apart and U encourage longdistance racing and we propose to -tick to these lines. said Secretary Praser.
