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ROSS STABLES FIELD DAY Canadian Turfman Scores Three Victories at Havre de Grace Dramaturge Foreground and Billy BillyKelly Kelly Win in Successive SuccessiveEaces Eaces for Him Havre de Grace Md September 21 Today was a field day for the J K L Ross stable at Havre de 5raee Dramaturge l eat Shannon River by a head in the Gateway Steeplechase Foreground in a sinew straining finish got up in the final strides to beat Dr Johnson by a nose in the Seminole Handicap while in the afternoons feature race the Eastern Shore Handicap the great twoyearold Billy Kelly shoiildered 135 pounds and beat Routledge in easy fashion fashionAn An immense crowd was present Track conditions were still bad the going being especially heavv next to the inside rail railFour Four of the races on the flat were over a con ¬ siderable distance of ground In fact the cluli has made a special effort during the meeting to provide long distance races and a majority of those run at the meeting have been at one mile or over Billy overBilly Kellys performance was a grand exhibition for a twoyearold Sande kept him under restraint during the early running sent him to the front after going n half and rated him skillfully to the end Billy shouldered his heavy burden in real race horse fashion and his victory was enthusiastically cheered by the big crowd crowdThe The steeplechase was om of the most interesting contests through the field ever witnessed In Mary ¬ land the duel between Dramaturge and Shannon Pivr being replete with thrills and the f lnishwit KU close that the winner was in doubt until the numbers were iwsted iwstedForegrounds Foregrounds defeat of Dr Johnson brought the crowd to its feet It was a stubbornly fought stretch battle and Kandes strong finish contributed ma ¬ terially in the success of the Boss representative representativeCharles Charles Francis outclassed his opponents in the opening dash and made a runaway affair of the race leading throughout by a wide gap gapj j QUEEN OF THE SEA MEETS DEFEAT DEFEATLosing Losing ground by making a wide turn entering tho homestretch ruined whatever chance the favorite Queen of the Sea may have had in the fifth race The winner was King Neytune which set the pace throughout and gamely resisted the closing efforts of Waukeag in the final drive driveEddie Eddie Henry accounted for the sixth and Sea Gull proved l lest est in the seventh race Both victories were easily achieved achievedJ J F Sweeney purchased privately from 7 J Farroll Jr the platers Odalisque and Dalrose They are intended for a campaign at one of the winter tracks tracksT T H Wilson has added to his string by private purchase the racer Brando which he secured from G Peterson PetersonThe The condition books for the Laurel meeting were distributed among the horsemen this morning The smallest amount of added money to any of the purses is 1000 1000During During the remainder of this meeting the fourth race every day will be known as tlie War Savings Stamp Purse PurseNotices Notices were posted in the secretarys office warn ¬ ing owners and trainers against harboring the lads Ed Wingfield who left the employ of William Garth and Louis Morris who left the R F CarniHii stable and Bernard Washer WasherSam Sam Louis claimed the mare Fairy Legend from Steve Judge after the running of the seventh raco yesterday She cost Louis 900
