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FIVE STRAIGHT WINS FOR BABY GRAND Commander Ross Recent Purchase Adds Another Victory to His List of Successes MONTltEAL Quebec June 2 The consistent twoyoarold Baby Grand which is now racing in the colors of Commander J K L Itoss added another victory for his new owner when he won the Dorval Juvenile Purse the feajure race of the program provided here this afternoon Baby Grand carried 122 pounds made all the pace and withstanding bard pressuure from the start drew away in the final strides to beat Panhandler by u scant length The winner conceded lumps of weight to everything in the race Todays victory marked the fifth straight for Baby Grand and his seventh winning race this season seasonKacing Kacing conditions were again perfect and another large crowd turned out Kock Silk a firsttime starter in the oiiening race which was for Canadian breds was made the medium of a killing when he von Ills race in little better than a canter The race was a claiming affair and three claims were promptly deposited in the box after the race and B J fanis secured him for 1150 a figure that makes Itock Silk look like a bargain bargainSentimental Sentimental was claimed by M Smith for 1100 Helen Atkin by Clyde Phillips for 1100 and Have Oi by J Gorman tm 1100 1100There There was keen competition for the plater Peer ¬ less One after he was beaten by Dione in the closing race on the openinj day Claims were lodged by Frank Farrar 1 Allen W It Padgett Stuart Polk W A McKinney K J Parrish and W Paguini and in the drawing Polk secured the plater platerW W II Dauphin was among the latest arrivals from the States with his string of racers racersE E T Xollicoffer who maintains rather an ex ¬ tensive farm in North Carolina contemplates going into the breeding end of the sport Several of his mares will be mated this spring to the young stal ¬ lion AH Smiles which has been retired to the stud studBert Bert E Graham who was among the successful owners who rced in Cuba last winter got in from Illinois yesterday with a division of the stable he raced at Oriental Park His Canadian string in ¬ cludes Delancey Pierrot Zodiac and Mike DIxou Mr Graham is among the most successful of the younger Kenerationof trainers A notice iiasbeeii posted in the i here that in all handicaps there must be written acceptances instead of written declarations which is the usual custom at most other tracks tracksDione Dione winner of the seventh race yesterday lias been added to the schooling list listJ J Allen who raced Little Nephew at one of the winter meetings has taken over the horses of Sum Nesbitt NesbittEdward Edward Graham a retired rancher of Columbus Ohio has engaged J G Bussey as trainer of a slible which he contemplates securing within the next week He has an option on several horses and lift here yesterday for New York to look them over James Butwell will do the riding for the stable
