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! : INCOG A LUCKY HOCHELAGA WINNER. Takes the Stake Race Because Waukcag Nearly Falls Arriet Distinguishes Herself. Montreal, Que., September !. The Hocliehiga Handicap, todays feature race at I.lue Rounds, was marred by a mishap, in which Waukeag, the favorite for the race, was sharply cut off and sent to his knees and all but fell. Incog was returned the winner and. after a long discussion by the stewards, the placing was permitted to stand as the horses finished. Incog showed in front before they had gone a dozen strides, with RInu Fox and Queen of the Sea in close pursuit. Waukeag was in the middle of tin? bunch and when Robinson attempted to get through at the half mile ground, his mount probably jumped on some other horses heels and went to his knees. This put Waukeag out of the struggle. When Robinson got him steadied he was last and apparently hopelessly out of any chance, but he finished fast and was fourth in passing the judges. Jockey J. Clark suffered a broken collarbone as a result of his mishap when Areturus bolted through the wing of a jump in yesterdays steeplechase. W. P. Eraser, N. Dymeiit and J. 11. Madigin, were visitors at I.lue Bonnets this afternoon. Arriet showed a sensational performance in the fifth race, which she won in a canter after being I crowded back at the start. Incog was jumped on in her race and came out of the scramble with several cuts on her hind legs. Arrangements have been made by the Dorval Jockey Club for a special horse train, which will leave Blue Eonnets every day at 11! oclock sharp, for Dorval and returning thirty minutes after tne last race is run. Previous to the races, a meeting of the committee of the Canadian Racing Associations was held. Nothing of importance came up. but several minor matters were disposed of. The license granted jockey II. Lafferty was revoked and he was suspended. Lafferty got into an altercation with one of the gatemen at the Windsor track. Steeplechase jockey Harry Simpsons license was also revoked and he was told to report at the meeting which will be held at Woodbine, when final action on his case will be taken. The Montreal Jockey Club is doing its part to help solve the selling-race problem. The conditions iu the selling races at the Blue Bonnets meeting contained several different clauses. One permits every horse in the race to be claimed, others provide for claims at the value of the race, plus the entered price. Others are the old-style selling affairs, in which any bid over the entered price can be made, and stjijl another .calk for sealed bids to be made within fifteen minutes after the race is run. In the hitter way the owner lias th privilege of retaining his horse. Another innovation will be tried at Iimlico next fall anil probably at some of the other meetings across the border. There was one of these rac-s run at Saratoga and it brought the desired result, much to the surprise of those who fostered the idea. The race was a claiming handicap in which all of the purse went to the winner. The conditions called for a variation of values, the prices being graded from ,500 to ,200. It was of course supposed that the race was a handicap and the entered price would cut no figure in the weights assigned, that owners would naturally enter their horses at the top rating. The result, however, wes a general variation, those entered being valued from ,500 down to the minimum. It showed plainly that that these races, which are intended as a sales market, can be carried through successfully and afford opportunity for owners to display what they have for sale with the best of tests of their form in races.
