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FINE SPORT AT TH0RNCLIFFE Close and Exciting Finishes Mark Sixth Days Racing at Toronto Track. TORONTO, Ont., September 22. A series of claiming races made up the card for the sixth days racing of the Thorncliffe Park Breeders and Racing Associations autumn meeting this afternoon. Despite this fact the largest crowd of the week was treated to an interesting afternoons sport, featured by close and exciting finishes. This was particularly true of the sixth race, the three placed horses finishing closely bunched, and the result was in doubt until the official placing was displayed. S. D. Fountains Black Top earned- the verdict from Broadview and Walk Up. The latter was probably best, but was forced to make up a lot of ground in the stretch following a slow beginning, and was rapidly overhauling the leaders at the end. Joan of Arc and Bond also provided another hair-raising finish in the fifth, the former only getting up in the closing stride. In the concluding race Mountain Rose II. was under a hard drive all the last sixteenth to win by a nose from the fast-coming Rouen. Nenette, Litle Maudie and Minnie Mack were also under a hard drive at the end of the third race, with only heads apart. Due to his mean actions while at the post, the entry of Apple Jack has been ordered scratched for tomorrow by the stewards. After unseating his rider twice in the paddock before the running of the second race Sinn Feiner was ordered scratched by the stewards and all money was refunded on him. He will also be barred from starting tomorrow. Judge Francis Nelson was a visitor here today. During the afternoon judges Nelson and Joseph A. Murphy announced that they, along with J. B. Campbell, three of the five stewards of the Business Mens Racing Association at New Orleans during the winter meeting of 1919, with the consent of S. C. Nuckols and A. Stallings, the other stewards, that they had restored George Arivau to all privileges of the turf. Jockeys C. Duggan and E. Fator will leave tomorrow to ride during the autumn meetings ou the Maryland tracks. Jockeys J. Kennedy, A. Jacobs and N. Foden depart tomorrow for Montreal to ride at the Mount Royal meeting. 1J. Chapman reports that yesterday Bogart and John J. Casey got loose and displayed a high flight of speed in racing a railway train for some distance up the Canadian Pacific Railroad tracks at the rear of this plant. After both horses had been recovered it was found that, besides tearing off their shoes, neither was injured.
