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LAST DAY OF MOUNT ROYAL MEETING MONTREAL Quo May 2S The spring meet ¬ ing of the Back River Jockey Club came to an end tills afternoon and despite threatening weather an enormous crowd turned out to witness the final days racing racingAs As far as the sport was concerned the race fol ¬ lowers could not ask for any better but financially the association must have had a hard time to meet both ends Expenses were even heavier than last year and the profits much less on account of tho heavy taxes imposed by the government governmentThe The Jacques Cartier Handicap for threeyearolds and over at one mile and seventy yards was the feature of a good program and B P Summerfields Sugarmint was tho winner with Golden Chance second and Lucy Kate third The son of Mceo was hustled into the lead at the first turn and hold on gamely until the end endThe The majority of the horses over here will leave for Dorval on Sunday Some will also ship to Quebec and rest up until tlie meeting of the Quebec Hunt Club
