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: ! BIG CROWD AT KEMPTON PARK MONTREAL, Que., September 23 The largest crowd of the present meeting, over 5,000 flocked to Kempton Park this afternoon, where midsummer weather conditions prevailed. The racing card was featured by the La Prairie Handicap, at a mile and a sixteenth, and the winner turned up. in the well-supported Dairyman, Avhich, racing to his best form, assumed an early lead and kept it all the way under Balls hustling ride and was never seriously threatened. Myrtle Crown made a bid in the backstretch, but could not get to the leader and dropped back, but was an easy second. The closest finish of the day came in the running of the second race, when in a desperate drive Sandstrom got Lady Harrigan up in the last stride to win a nose decision from Heliocross. Tan II. won another thriller in the fourth, closing with a rush through the stretch to head Kling in the last strides. The Canadian-bred mare Fair and Warmer, owned by J. Ross, broke down in her stall after the final race yesterday, in which she finished last, and will not be seen under colors again this year. Fair and Warmer is the mare which mysteriously disappeared from Blue Bonnets after winning a race two years ago, and was not und until the following spring.
