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SOME GOOD RACING AT C0NNAUGHT PARK. Xing Neptune Shows Good Form in Defeating All Smiles — Small Talk of the Track. Ottawa, Ont.. June 19. — There was some improvement in track conditions at Connaught Park this afternoon and. while the going -till remaine,! heavy. it was s ife. Small fields went to the post and interesting contests resulted. The attendance was large did speculation almost equal to that of Saturday, which was the banner day of the meeting. King Neptune scored his first victory of the Canadian racing season when lie beat All Smiles by a head in the fourth race, a dash of one mile. All Smiles set :i fast pace until well inside the last sixteenth when- he began to tire, and King Neptune, finishing gamely, got up to beat him in the filial strides. King Neptune |mu 100 pounds been ier than he did a month ago. which account- for hi-improv-mciit. lie has finally rounded into hi- geeil form and should be a dnugoron factor in lie- Hamilton Dtrby. which will probably lie his next start. Corn Broom was another first time winner of the present season. He made :i runaway affair of the second race, in which he beat a band of Canadian-foaled horses. Hopeful Age, one of the starters, crossed his legs and fell. His injuries • nforced his destruction. The selling race feud between Messrs. Garth. Louis, Parretto and P.eilwell has been patched up. The Mirasol Stable horses will leave for Hamilton tomorrow. After the running of the fourth race showers again fell, which ruined all chance of a good track for tomorrow. In the fifth race. Little Wonder, a first-time starter, bolted over the inside fence opposite the paddock gate in the final eighth. Anderson was shaken up quite a bit and the filly was injured internally. William Northey. secretary of the Montreal Jockey Club, was an arrival this morning. Mr. Northey came over to distribute cheeks to the horsemen for the purses they won at Blue Bonnets. He re:»orts several stables still at the Montreal Jockey Clubs course, some of which intend rem lining there all summer. A division of the strings of apt. W. F. Presgrave and Howard Dots will tie left at Blue Bonnets until the fall meeting. The horses of C. L. Freeman and G. R. Tompkins are also there. News reached here of the death of Charles Lyman in Montreal on Saturday. Mr. Lyman for many years was employed as a bookmakers clerk. He came from St. Louis originally, but in recent years made his home in Baltimore. His death followed an operation for appendicitis. His wife arrived from Baltimore yesterday and will accompany the remains home. Mike Gorman reports that the province-bred Cop-]H-r King is again going soundly and taking his daily gallops. He will be shipped to Hamilton with the remainder of the Gorman horses at the conclusion of this meeting. Jockey G. Byrne has been engaged to ride the three-year-old Faux-Col in the Hamilton Derby. This is the colt that Jack Adkins has lieen predicting will make a good racer. He is owned by R. J. Mackenzie. A committee of the Canadian branch of the Thoroughbred Horse Association waited on the managing committee of the Connaught Park Jockey Club Saturday night and ofTered to accept smaller purses this week. The horsemen realized that the miserable weather had played havoc with the attendance and they felt that they should do their part in helping the club out. Mr. Crawford Ross, honorary secretary, acted as spokesman for the Connaught Park Jockey Club and, in a few well -chosen words, thanked the horsemen for their consideration. He said, among other things, that the Connaught Tark Jockey Club was formed to foster thoroughbred sport in Ottawa and that the stockholders never had any aim to make great profits from their investments. He said that the memliers of the club were not afraid to go down in their pockets to make up any deficiency that might accrue, but naturally they hoped that the meeting would be a successful one financially. He added that the gentlemen on the i lulls committee after talking the matter over, decided that it would not be keeping faith with the horsemen if they reduced the purses and that the money advertised in the condition book would be added to all of the races to be run during the meetii.g.
