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LAST DAY AT DEL0R1MIER Sheba and Plantarede Win Principal Races of Closing Program. MONTBEAL, Que., August 11. J. M. Coopers Sheba never left the issue in doubt in the St. Catherines Handicap, which featured the concluding days racing at Delorimier Park this afternoon. She raced George AV. into defeat and scored by a wide margin from Sentimental and Chefa. The Delorimier Breeders Purse, in the sixth race, and the secondary feature over the mile and a half route, was productive of a thrilling finish in which Plantarede barely lasted to beat Buck Nail by a nose. Ball outrode Jacobs in the final test which decided the issue. After Mack Garner easily annexed the fiftli race for E. E. Major, he went to the stable of P. Hinphy via the claiming route for ,000. A cleverly counterfeited three-way ticket on Miss Adrianne, the first winner, found its way into the payoff station at the mutuel pavilion today and rewarded the crook rather liberally, 4. This lias become a daily occurrence here of late despite the vigilance of the police to apprehend the guilty parties. Another crook attempting to pass a twenty-dollar counterfeit was taken into custody today. Jockey J. Connors, who suffered a broken collar bone at the Quebec meeting in June, is now able to ho around without his arm in a sling. He will not resume rifling until the autumn meetings at Dufferin Park, Toronto. Jockey Schlessinger will go to Erie, Pa., to ride at the Erie County Fair. Bourbon Green was withdraw from the sixth race at Delorimier todaj- owing to lameness. Charlestonian pulled up lame after his race yesterday. Due to the protest lodged by owners John A. Lewis and C. F. Tanner on grounds that the horse Nick Klein, winner of the fiftli race yesterday, was not saddled by a licensed trainer, the stewards have disqualified the horse Nick Klein and ordered first money paid to John A. Lewis for the horse Little Pete, which ran second. Second money to the horse Dinty Moore, owned by C. F. Tanner, and third money to the horse Doctor 1., owned by C. Doros-sct. which was fourth. Charged with tampering witli jockeys riding at local tracks. Joseph Cardini, alias "Cuban Harry." appeared before the immigration authorities here this morning. It was decided that he is an undesirable, but was given five days in which to make preparations for deportation. In the meantime Car-dini will he barred from tracks.
