Irish Kiss The Winner: Sunnyland Stable Gelding Takes Kenilworths Closing Feature.; Defeats Estero and Besthoff in Tight Finish--Fine Sport Witnessed by Immense Crowd., Daily Racing Form, 1920-07-30

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IRISH KISS THE WINNER Sunnyland Stable Gelding Takes Kenilworths Closing Feature Defeats Estero and Besthoff in Tight Finish Fine Sport Wit ¬ nessed by Immense Crowd WINDSOR Out July 29 Irish Kiss the five yearold Orpiment Soligena gelding carrying jockey L Morris in the colors of the Sunnyland Stable added 4 L0 more to the coffers of that establishment this afternoon winning the 5000 added Detroit City Handicap at a mile and a six ¬ teenth that featured the final days racing at Ken ilworth Park Estero and 15esthoff finished second and third thirdIrish Irish Kiss was outrun to the far turn where he moved up on the outside of the leaders and coming around them into the straightaway got up in the closing strides to win by a neck expertly hand ridden Estero which had followed closely the early pacemaking of Wynnewood in a contend ¬ ing position looked like a winner an eighth out but tired thereafter and barely lasted to save sec ¬ ond money from Itcsthoff The latter close tip throughout dropped back as if badly beaten in starting for the far turn but came again witli splendid courage under hard urging Irish Kiss was favorite in the betting Regalo the second choice was away a bit slowly from the extreme outside position and was outrun in the sprint for position at the far turn and being compelled to go wide the entire journey never assumed a contending position uThre7iteningclondswwhiclrLbegaii to gather over the course about post time in the initial race drove in immense crowd to cover before the fourtii race and again when the field for the handicap was parading to the post The rain was light and of short duration however and had no bearing on the result of the big race raceJockey Jockey Morris victory on Irish Kiss was his second of the day He was first home in the opening dash with Loch Leven which beat Nurse Jane u neck in a driving finish A fall marred the running of this race Capon going down when an eighth out Jockey S McGraw who had the mount on Capon escaped with a severe shaking up and was able to ride old Top o th Morning to victory in the fourth race raceGRAND GRAND FINISH IN CANADIANBRED RACE RACEThe The mile and seventy yards dash for Canadian bred threeyearolds and over furnished a redhot finish less than a half length separating the first three horses at the end Salvo after setting a fast early pace seemed to tire when an eighth out and appeared beaten when Itengali passed her However to the surprise and delight of her back ¬ ers he came again and finishing courageously under a splendid ride got up to win by a head Ladder of Light was right there at the finish and gaining with every stride stride15y 15y Jiminy again proved a disappointment finish ¬ ing unplaced in the third race in which he was well supported Runqoi was the winner having a head advantage over Jean Corey which was pressing the Seifert colt hard at the end endJack Jack Kearney of New Orleans leaves for Saratoga for the coming meeting meetingEdward Edward W Cole New York newspaper man who has been serving as one of the judges here leaves for Saratoga tonight tonightJoseph Joseph McLennan and Julius Reeder depart for Hamilton tonight tonightJockey Jockey F ISrysons apprentice allowance expired yesterday when he piloted Sweet I5ouMnct first to the wire in the second race Dick Williams is negotiating with S A Clopton for the purchase of his contract contractMiss Miss Mae Kelly has bought Glastoi from H S Koppin KoppinThe The shipment of horses from here to Hamilton will begin tonight Included in the first consign ¬ ment will be the stable of Mike Seifert SeifertG G II Robertson and George Phillips will go from here to Hamilton with their strings stringsWilliam William Newman W Mikel I E Chapman arid J L Coyle send their stables from here to Mon ¬ treal to participate in the meeting at Mount Royal RoyalJockey Jockey Arthur Collins was given a five days suspension by the stewards yesterday for interfer ¬ ing with My Rose while astride Old Chap winner of the first race


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