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FOREGROUNDS KING EDWARD GOLD CUP Defeats Irish Kiss in a Stirring Contest Great Crowd on the last Day TORONTO Ontario May 20 The King Ed ¬ ward Gold Cup one of the annual fixtures of the spring meeting at Woodbine Park was featured by the Ontario Jockey Club this afternoon It brought a small but well matched field to the post and furnished a stirring contest Foreground winning in a driving finish from Irish Kiss Midnight Sun was third and Bondage fourth The race was run before an immense crowd the attendance being equal in number to that of the opening day dayThe The Street Railway Steeplechase over the two mile and a half course resulted in a series of mishaps Ammunition being the only one of the four starters to finish the course without a mis bap Frogtown firsttime starter through the field riced well to the eighteenth fence where he turned a sonersaiilt Jim O took a tumble at the seventh jump and I ady Kee at the sixteenth sixteenthWaterwood Waterwood which finished second in the York Plate was claimed by 1 Kennedy for 1 9 The II Giddings stable headed the list of win ¬ ning owners at the meeting with I47 0 to its credit The Sunnyland Stable was second and Commander J K I Ross third thirdPrevious Previous to the races this afternoon the Canadian Racing Associations held a meeting in the club ¬ house at the track The apprentice and claiming petitions presented by the horsemen were not taken up for discussion as a full meeting of the board was not present The entry of the racer Uncle John was ordered refused for ninety days and the trainer of the horse 1 W Graver was fined 50 for failure to bring the horse to the post after being refused permission to scratch him himThe The following licenses were also granted Train ¬ ers I Arthur A U Austin T F Bornman J A Carter J M Cooper K Davis S Doyle W Fen wick C N Freeman P Garrett B A Jones A C Niehaus K S Moore W Mulligan 1 Shaw B B Rico J Roddick G P Sherman F Tcnnant W G AVoant J AVilson and C T AYorthingtou AYorthingtouJockevs Jockevs George Archibald J IttitweH FChia Fletcher K Groves K Landry R Lefebvre F Murphv J Nichols J Pierce A II Riehcroek J R Simpson A Stretch C Whittington K AVilson and J Rodriguez RodriguezF F J Bryan who has been acting as one of the stewards here left for New York tonight He will act as steward for the National Steeplechase Association at Belmont Park until the opening of the Blue Bonnets meeting when he will return to Canada CanadaStarter Starter Millon and his assistants Joseph McLen ¬ nan and Sheridan Clark left tonight for Montreal to be on hand for the opening of the Dorval Park meeting meetingA A twelvecar special pulled out for Dorval Park after the races today The consignment was made up of the following stables J K L Ross T Hodge Nevada Stock Fa cm Frank Farrar J K Seagram A L Austin G M Hendrie J Ryan T Taylor George Carsell J G Gorman C A Crew AV J Burke L Lyon K F Whitney Cap ¬ tain AV J Press K Moore T F Bornman AV A Burttschell J II Loucheim D Shaw A C Nie ¬ haus and tho Brookdale Stable StableAA AA A Burttschell will take the Kings Plate winner St Paul to Montreal for Harry Giddings GiddingsKama Kama which was claimed on Thursday and sold to AA J Mclllmurray was ordered scratched by the stewards Under the Canadian claiming rule a horse must remain the property of the party who claims him for thirty days daysM M N McFarlan has been asked to act as pre ¬ siding judge at the Dorval Park meeting The stewards of tho meeting will be Frank Nelson D Raymond and Sheridan Clarke The good nicer Boniface was shipped to Xew York this morning
