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CLOSING DAY AT CONNAUGHT PARK Dr Joo Captures Chateau Laurier Handicap Before Largo and Enthusiastic Crowd CrowdOTTAWA OTTAWA Ontario June 21 Dr Joe Itutwell up won the Chateau Laurier Handicap at a mile and a sixteenth for threeyearolds and upward which featured the getaway program of the Con naught Park meeting this afternoon Dr Joe away well raced to the front in the run down the backstretch when his stablemate relinquished the lead and gradually drew away to win easing up by five lengths Soldat de Verdun a toil heavy favorite left the remainder of the field far behind in landing second day Gala Dress the Canadianbred was third Soldat de Verdun went wide on both the turns and lost so much ground that he could not get up to the leader although he tried gamely in the final eighth eighthThe The meeting closed with another good crowd in attendance The Duke of Devonshire paid another visit to the course and was accompanied by Major J T Tolmie minister of agriculture of the Da minion The latter is in charge of the movement of the government officials to tax the receipts of the miituel machines He is a keen student of the thoroughbred and an enthusiastic devotee of racing Eventually it is believed racing in Canada will be controlled completely by the department of agriculture agricultureThe The race of secondary importance on the card was the final handicap at a mile for threeyear olds and upward bred in Canada This went to Azrael which carried the colors of J Murphy Old 1op and Itritains Ally divided the remainder of the purse Crowding at tin first turn in this race caused the unseating of jockey G Veargin from Cnlamorc Ycargin was thrown heavily to the track and his left ear split so badly that he was forced to relinquish his remaining mounts of the afternoon afternoonFlare Flare shattered the track record for the two mile steeplechase course in the Heller Skelter Steeplechase Handicap winning easily from Phil T and Melos MelosTen Ten carloads of horses were shipped from here last night to Hamilton The consignment included the horses of J Arthur F Farrar II Giddings E T ollicoffer and the Maryland and ItrooU daie Stables Four more cars will be sent to the same fourse tonight One of these cars will be taken up by the ten head of the Nevada Stock Farm that are racing here under the care of W S Heath and the six in the string of T II Hodge The Seagram Stable also will be in the shipment shipmentIt It A Jones will ship his horses back to Montreal to campaign on the halfmile tracks tracksP P J Miles and W J Press are numbered among thoe horsemen who will o from here to Windsor for the Devonshire meeting meetingProgram Program books for the Fort Erie meeting were distributed to the horsemen today by racing secre ¬ tary J 15 Campbell The Devonshire books also were handed out
