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BUCABOS VICTORIA STAKES Son of Honeywood Carries Off Woodbines Juvenile Feature Fall Marks Running of Breeders BreedersStakes Stakes Won by Brookdale BrookdaleStables Stables Paddle TORONTO Ont May 23 The Victoria Stakes for two yearolds at fiveeighths to which 5000 had been added waa offered as the feature attraction at Woodbine Park this afternoon and resulted In victory for B Hardings Bucado an unsexed son of Honey wood Bells In impressive fashion from A L Austins ML Rose while third portion of the stake fell to H Giddings Canadianbred Honeys Jewel JewelWrangle Wrangle on the strength of his Maryland form was tho outstanding betting choice but he performed In a dismal manner and fin ¬ ished last In the field of six sixThe The start was a good one and Bucado and ML Rose left as a team and set a fast pace for the others to follow Wrangle began with the leaders but was outrun and dropped back Bucado under hustling tactics from McTaggart widened the gap and drew away from the Austin starter while Honeys Jewel was racing in third position with Magic Reed Hallucination and Wrangle following In the order named namedSwinging Swinging into the stretch McTaggart went a trifle wide and ML Rose came to the out ¬ side of the son of Honeywood In a sharp brush in which Bucado felt the whip he drew away and from then on never left the result in doubL The time was 100 a creditable performance and the victory net ¬ ted the Harding coffers the sum of 3590 3590Racing Racing conditions this afternoon were all that could be desired and a crowd of large proportions was on hand to witness the sporL The card a good one was featured by the Victoria Stakes and the Breeders Stakes The latter was for threeyearolds foaled in Canada and was at a mile and an eighth The track wag in splendid condition the fast ¬ est since the start of the meeting The rac ¬ ing was of a spirited order and the majority of the winners were forced to sustain drives to earn brackets bracketsTHREE THREE HORSES GO DOWN DOWNA A bad fall marked the running of the Breeders Stakes which divided honors with the Victoria Stakes When the field was en ¬ tering the stretch Impersonator one of the Seagram starters crossed his legs and went down El Jesmar and Royal Gift which were both In close attendance before they could bo ridden wide fell over him Jockey J Rowan who was astride El Jesmar suffered a fracture of the collar bone arid was removed to the hospital room on the grounds Rowan never lost consciousness Jockeys Thompson and Taylor escaped with a slight shaking up upThe The winner turned up in the Brookdale Stables Paddle which ran second in tho Kings Plate He was ridden by Gantncr and came from behind and raced Kings Court into defeat in the final sixteenth after stand ¬ ing a hard drive Brynthona was third thirdPaddla Paddla was a pronounced choice in the wagering and the victory was a popular one with the crowd This marked Gantners first mount for his new employers employersSECOND SECOND THOUGHTS FASHION PLATE PLATEThe The Fashion Plate for fillies and mares threeyearolds and over engaged a well balanced band to go threequarters E P Whitneys Second Thoughts and Lunetta from the Winfrey Stable enjoyed favoritism of the speculators The start was delayed a few minutes by tho fractious behavior of several of the starters and when the barrier was sprung Mode was caught in a jam and Thompson was forced to take him up Sec ¬ ond Thoughts assumed the lead for the first sixteenth whero she was passed by Tuscola while the Whitney representative raced in closest pursuiL Lunetta was in early difll cultiea and Claver was forced to work his way up through the field Tuscola began to stop when tho turn for home was reached and Rowan sent Second Thoughts into the lead In a hard and grueling stretch drive In which the winner and Lunetta were extended to the limit Second Thoughts earned the ver ¬ dict by a short neck neckThe The Helter Skelter Steeplechase at about two mites under selling conditions resulted in a stirring contest in which R B Strass burgers Perkiomen was home first while C K Harrisons Butcher Boy finished second and third place fell to Greek Patriot The field fenced in a splendid manner and only one failed to finish the course McCorburn which lost jockey Ransch at the tenth fence The Landsdowne Plato which was under claiming conditions furnished a spectacular contest in which C P Winfreys Servitor came again in the last few strides and out gamed Tantalus by a nose Super the favor It in the race was but a head back The three passed the judges so closely bunched that the spectators were uncertain as to tha winner until the official placing was dis ¬ played playedAnother Another thrilling finish requiring the of ¬ ficial placing to decide the winner was when Fluzey scored In the fifth race by the nar ¬ rowest margins from Solid Rock The latter looked all over a winner at the eighth posL but tired after getting to the leader leaderA A cablegram received from His Majesty the King said Tho King wishes you to con ¬ gratulate the winner of the Kings Plate on his behalf behalfA A cablegram received from His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught said Please give my congratulations to the Messrs Davies and my kind recollections to my old friends friendsN N 1C Beal and W A Burttschell notified tho Connaught Park Jockey Club that they would ship from Baltimore to that point to participate in the meeting meetingJoseph Joseph McLennan mado a hurried trip from Toronto to Ottawa and reported that every ¬ thing was in readiness for the opening at the Capital City on Tuesday All of the prom ¬ inent stables racing on the Canadian circuit have reserved stalls among them being J 1C L Ross Seagram stable Brookdale Stable C 1C Harrison J G Gorman Mrs L A Livingston E F Whitney C P Winfrey and a host of other stables stablesBasil Basil Smith arrived from Jamaica this thismorning morning accompanied by jockey A Gantner Gantnerwho who will ride on the Canadian circuit for the theBrookdale Brookdale Stable StableJockey Jockey Huntamer the star rider of the Ti ¬ juana winter meeting who was badly In ¬ jured in a fall at the Mexican track was an arrival He has taken on considerable weight during his enforced idleness and will soon start to get into condition to ride again againJ J S Whatley arrived from Lexington Ky and J Tigue came on from Cleveland Both will start horses at this meeting meetingTrainer Trainer Kermath announced this morning that the R B Strassburger jumpers would be shipped to Belmont Park to join the main division of the stable stableTrainer Trainer T J Donohue will ship the Cana ¬ dian division of the Mrs F A Clark stable to Blue Bonnets BonnetsG G D Bryan Jr arrived from Baltimore to put the finishing details to tho opening of the Thorncliffe Park meeting meetingO O F Babe BurkarL a wellknown Canadian football player has been appointed by tho Ontario Jockey Club to succeed IS Baxter in charge of the distributions of pro ¬ grams at the Woodbine WoodbineTrainer Trainer John Nixon who has a large public stable in training announced that he would ship tho Major Kilgour G M Hendrle and C A Millar horses to Ottawa OttawaWord Word was received from Belmont Park to ¬ day that Willie Shea would ship his string in charge of trainer F J Stevens to Connaught Park and campaign on the Canadian circuit for the remainder of the spring and summer summerJames James Watson one of the directors of the Connaught Park Jockey Club was a visitor tills afternoon and conferred with Joseph McLennan relative to the lastminute details In connection with the opening of the meet ¬ ing at Ottawa on Tuesday nexL
