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EXTERMINATOR A WINNER I Noted Gelding Scores Another Great Triumph in the Toronto Autumn Cup. TORONTO. Ont., September 25. The fall meeting of the Ontario Jockey Club nt the picturesque Woodbine course was ushered in this afternoon with the running of a card that bristled with feature events. The Toronto Autumn Cup was awarded the place of honor and brought together a good field of long-distance performers. After the withdrawal of Boniface, W. S. Kilmers famous Exterminator went to the post a toplieavy favorite and the immense crowd was on its feet cheering wildly when that gallant turf hero was returned the winner. Exterminator shouldered the heavy impost of 132 pounds, -giving weight to all his opponents, and in a terrific drive that lasted all through the stretch defeated the lightly weighted My Dear by a head after an exceptionally fast run rjce. Third money fell to Bondage. Ideal racing conditions brought out a gathering that taxed the spacious accommodations of the stands and lawns. They were well rewarded, as the racing was of a spirited order and close finishes predominated. The running of the Woodbine Autumn Steeplechase under handicap conditions was attended with direful results to the Glen Iver stable when the fencer Old Bill Bender suffered injuries which necessitated his destruction. Hayhes on Elysian was badly shaken up when Elysian fell and was removed iu an ambulance. Blighty II. was returned the winner in a drive from Kingstown Pier and Bencher. Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, whoso stable of steeplechasers are nt Woodbine Park, was an arrival from New York. This is her first visit to Toronto and she wns much taken with the beautiful course of the Ontario Jockey Club, which she pronounced one of the best and most picturesque she had ever visited. Astraea came out of her race yesterday with a dislocated stifle. Little Maudie was jumped on in iier race and one of the small arteries in her hind leg "several. Little Nearer pulledr-iqf lame after the fillvtWli-Kiv ?Ucfef. - - . .;-.-ta Norman Macfnrlan, who acted as jone of the-stewards at Dorval, left for KentuckyyjRst night. In less than an hour after the report had been received in Montreal that the special race between Man o War and Sir Barton would be run at the Kenilworth track, all of the available sleeping car space leaving October 11 had been taken up. The announcement was made that a special would lie run from Montreal to Windsor for those who wish to make the trip to witness the running of the big race. The prediction has already been made that the greatest gathering that ever witnessed the running of a horse race in North America will be present at Kenilworth on that day. There is report here that still another track will be built in Ontario before another racing season rolls around and that the new course will be constructed at Burlington Beach, adjacent to Hamilton. The promoters of this plant say that it will be constructed -on high-class lines, the track proper to be a vfuile and an eighth, with an up-to-date steeplechase course. The plans for the clubhouse call for aii outlay of 5,000, while the grandstand will be a steel structure and a double decker. The officials serving at Woodbine are: Secretary-treasurer and clerk of the course, W. P. Fra-ser; stewards, Colonel William Hendrie, Colin Campbell and A. E. Dyment; steward representing Canadian Racing Associations, Francis Nelson; judges, J. B. Camplell and Peter Clinch; starter, Harry Morrissey; clerk of the scales, Joseph McLennan; tinier, Joseph II. Doanc; patrol judge, William Martin; paddock judge, F. Elmore.
