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HAMILTONS LARGEST CROWD Dominion Day Program Brings Out Immense Gathering Irish Kiss Victor in National Han ¬ dicap Other Features to Dr Hickman and Silent West HAMILTON Ontario July 1 The Dominion Day card at the Hamilton Pack Jockey Club attracted to the course this afternoon a crowd even larger in numbers than the recordbreaking assemblage which turned out here last Saturday Todays at ¬ tendance exceeded by a wide margin any gathering in the history of horse racing in Hamilton The KIHctators were jammed into the grandstand and clubhouse ami the lawns in front of each were packed to capacity so that it was necessary to throw open the infield for the relief of conges ¬ tion Nearly fifteen hundred persons availed them ¬ selves of that opportunity and witnessed the racing from there thereInterest Interest in the program was divided between the National Handicap at a mile and eighth for three yearolds and upward the Went worth Handicap at threequarters of a mile and the Prince of Wales Purse at fiveeighths of a mile for Cana ¬ dianbred twoyearolds with the most interest ac ¬ corded the first named because of an added value of rOO rOOScratches Scratches reduced the field for the feature to three starters and Irish Kiss the favorite well ridden by jockey Morris had little trouble in win ¬ ning by a length Irish Kiss broke from the center of the trio and after racing to the first turn in a good position laid behind the pace through the j ck trutdijuuInruuuil thP f rr rrt t lirii wJiili jCleuii Gone went to the front under a pullT Raiichtr7 also under restraint followed next in line Straight ¬ ened out Morris called on the Sunnyland Stable gelding and he came on with his impost of lll pounds to win easily Handier held on well in the drive to save second place from Clean Gone which tired slightly in the last quarter The race netted the winner 195 195Dr Dr Hickmau from the G M Heiidrie stable won tiie AVentworth Handicap with Charlie Summy second and Toe the Mark third Charlie Summy set a fast pace but was tiring at the end anil Willis brought Dr Hickman from second position to win handily handilyThe The goodlooking twoyearold Silent West intro ¬ duced here recently by Commander J K L Uoss accounted for the Prince of Wales Purse with ridiculous ease winning all the way from Wat Tank and Bcljoy as jockey Clavcr pleased pleasedThe The majority of the horses racing here will be shipped either to Fort Erie or to Devonshire There will be about fifteen cars for the Windsor course Three cars left for there tody made up of tile stables of C T Worthingtun W Burtt schell Iill Short and part of the spring of H Ncusteter Nine more cars will leave here for Windsor tomorrow morning and the remainder will follow after the races tomorrow afternoon afternoonPEACE PEACE PENNANT QUITE ILL ILLThe The stable of W F Poison of Buffalo will lie sent to Fort Erie in charge cf trainer W Sims An epidemic of laryngitis has spread through this stable and it will be rested up at Fort Erie after the meeting there The most acute sufferer just at present is Peace Pennant whivh was stricken shortly after his appearance in the Hamilton Derby DerbyThe The portion of II Nenstcters stable destined to Fort Erie wilt be in charge of Itert Rexiiigcr RexiiigcrThe The horses racing in the name of J H Loucheim will IM sent to Fort Erie in charge of C F Clark ClarkT T Hodge shipped three head to Fort Erie this morning The remainder of his string will follow to that point pointJockey Jockey Pierce who has been doing the riding for Mr Hodge returned Here last uight after a visit to his parents in New York YorkAmong Among the other horsemen who will go from here to Fcrt Erie are C Irby L E Drown O E Pons E W Moore A L Austin N L Brediu It 1 Rice George Walker W French F Fox S A Clopton J H McDonald and the Maryland Stable string in charge of W J Burke BurkeW W C Weant arranged this morning to ship his horses to Devonshire and motored to Windscr WindscrJ J 15 Campliell secretary of the Fort Erie meet ¬ ing is an arrival He was busy this morning ac ¬ cepting entries for the opsning card on Saturday Entries for the first day at Fort Erie will be accepted until tomorrow morning at the secretarys office by Joseph McLennan McLennanJames James Arthurs bondage was excused from tiie fifth race because of illness illnessAmong Among the horsemen destined for Windsor to ¬ morrow are James Arthur J Strite S Polk G It Hennessey F Farrar E Moore J S Tyrec J Mclllmurray J II Doane E Knebelkamp and J Tevis The Nevada Stock Farm horses also will race at Devonshire DevonshireSliaun Sliaun Gilmartin will be in charge of the inutuel plant at Fort Erie Sam Spencer who has run tiie plant here will go to Delorimier Park ParkU U L Rogers and Anderson Itros shipped their horses to Windsor this morning morningEntries Entries for the opening day at Devonshire Park will be accepted here Friday morning by W E I Iturke Entries for the National Handicap L00 added to lie run at Devonshire Monday will close Friday morning morningCondition Condition Ixioks for the Windsor Jockey Club meeting were distributed this morning by Joseph McLennan
