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J K L ROSS ENTRY BEATEN Lucky B Triumps Over Milkmaid and King Thrush in Connaught Cup TORONTO Ont May 20 The running of the Connaught Cup a dash of a mile and a sixteenth was offered as the feature at the Woodbine track his afternoon and resulted in a splendid victory for George McFarlines Lucky 15 over the Ross pair Milkmaid and King Thrush The conditions of the race called for starters being the bonafide property of Canadian owners residing in Canada to which a purse of 5000 had been added addedLucky Lucky IS was ridden by Thurber and won out in a drive with something to spare at the end The first part of the race was marked by continuous change of pacemakers Algonquin and Keltic al ¬ ternating Thnrber went to the front when well round the far turn and Grnneiscn moved up with a determined challenge with King Thrush while Keogh had been far out of it on Milkmaid King Thrush quit badly in the final test testIdeal Ideal overhead conditions prevailed and another crowd of record proportions turned out to wit ¬ ness the running of a card which was comi oscd of small fields The weather had a good effect on the track which was in a slow and drying out condition conditionIn In the Alexandria Plate the opening race of the afternoon Chief ISarthcll from the stable of E W Moore furnished the biggest surprise of the meeting when he led all the way and payed 0240 for 2 to win His winning margin was only a neck Tennite pressing him hard at the end Hin doostan the favorite pulled up lame after dis ¬ playing early speed speedAnother Another surprise came in the Aintree Steeple ¬ chase when Mrs P A Clarks Le Cyprin ran away from his opponents fencing faultlessly and leading by a wide margin for the two miles of the race J Lumsdens Smithfield the favorite ran well but could never overtake the flying leader leaderThe The Sweep filly Caretaker was easily best in the Patricia Plate a dash of fiveeighths for two yearolds holding command from barrier rise to tho end winning by a comfortable margin marginThe The Mayflower Purse at one and oneeighth miles resulted in tliu 6iicceSs bf3 R SkinKers Siesta the latter leading all the way but ridden out to hold safe the fast coming Woodthrush Chief was third and going fast when too late lateJockey Jockey P Keogh will depart for Washington on Sunday to confer with his contract employer Ad ¬ miral Gary Grayson GraysonAdvices Advices from Montreal arc that the turns on the Dorval track have been thrown up and the surface partly rcsoilcd rcsoilcdThe The Fort Erie Stakes closed today with a liberal entry list The Canadian Derby which this year is fashioned for Canadianbred drew a heavy nomination nominationG G W Porman lias decided to split his stable and will send some to Montreal and the others to Thorncliffe J Beamish will handle the east ¬ ern division divisionW W G Wilson this morning purchased at private terms from W Walker the steeplechaser Coronado CoronadoC C P Winfrey has secured jockey P Weiners services for the coining two meetings at Montreal Henry MontrealHenry McDaniel will ship the J K L Ross stable SaturdaySheridan to ISlue ISonnots on Saturday Sheridan Clarke will accept entries for the open ¬ ing day at Dorval at the Woodbine Friday and Sat ¬ urday urdayC C F Clark trainer for J Louchhoim states that Babe the dam of Baby Grand has proved barren this year She was mated to Granite Two bay colts by Granite dams Wanda Pitzer and Watch Your Step are recent arrivals at J S Rar beps farm in Kentucky where the young stallion is stationed stationedJohn John Madigin president of tim Niagara Racing Association was a visitor today to attend the meeting of the Canadian Racing Associations
