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CLOSE FINISHES AT CONNAUGHT PARK. Sleepy Sam Wins for Owner Pons — Collector Captures the Steeplechase — Kama All the Way. Ottawa. Out.. June 21. — Surprises were again the order at Connaught Park this afternoon. Secretary BherMaa Clark offered a well arranged program in which small fields went to the post. A majority of the finishes found the winners aaaav hard drives to win by small margins. There was a ilecidrd improvt inent in track conditions and with it cam" an improvement in MM racing. The Pons Stable won its first race of the meeting when Sleepy Sam came from behind in the opener, to get up in the fin;,i strides and beat Bright Sand by a scant length. It was a clos- thing lietween Minda and Ethan Allen in the second. The latter opened a long lead in the early riinning but tired badlv in the boniest ret. h ami Minebr just managed to get up to beat him out by a nose. Speculation iii the steeplechase was divided between Emerald Gets and New Haven. The latter managed to stagge-r in a half length in advance of Cynosure for second place, while Emerald Oem was beaten off. The winner turned up in Collector, which won in a canter. The Canadian-bred Kama beat some fair hors-s in the sprint handicap, in which he made all of the pace. Dishmon made his first appearance in the saddle on Sleepy Sam since his illness at Montreal. William garth referred word this morning that his son. Lewis Garth, had arranged for the shipment of the Edward K. .McLean steeplei hasers from Pilnlico to Saratoga Jam- 28. The Thomas Clyde horses that have been at Pimlico since the close of the meeting there will leave for Saratoga in the same shipment. On his arrival at Saratoga young Oarth will probably t*ke over Crimper and The Belgian, the two imported h...-ses that A. S. Ceaaaa purchased a few weeks luck. William Garth plans to leave here himself in a few weeks for Saratoga. During hit 1 be* are from Canada J. V. He.-tiey will look after the Canadian division of his stable. William Baker was lined 0 by the stewards for the inconsistent as.- of equipment on Nigadoo. Jockey W. Obert was an arrival from Baltimore where lie rode at tie half-mile track meetings , lie will probably ride for E. W. Moor- in Canada One of the feature races of tomorrows program is the Daughters of the Kmpire purse. The Con-naught Park Jockey Club donates .10 of the purse • to the Daughters of the Kmpire and it is under stood that the horsemen „ ill also donate their shire of it. It is doubtful if jockey M. Anderson will be able to accept mounts before the Fort Erie meeting While no bones were broken. Anderson suffered borne painful bruises in his recent mishap. He is still in the Protestant hospital in Ottawa.
