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TWO FOR KENTON STABLE o Flying Jacque and Fair Gain Carry Its Colors to Double Victory. Bullion "Wins fop Rome Rcspess Yorkist in Triumph Stellar Program for Closing Day. TORONTO, Ont., September 26. The Kenton Stable accounted for two of the races at the "Woodbine this afternoon when Flying Jacque finished in front of a big band of maidens in the fourth race and Fair Gain, which won the fifth race. Both horses came from behind and both won in driving finishes. Flying Jacque had something like a length to spare in his race, but it was only the smallest of margins that separated Fair Gain from Rocky Mountain in his race. Chick Lang rode a particularly strong finish on Fair Gain and it was due alone to this that the Kenton Stable won the prize. Rocky Mountain was, in the opinion of many, the better horse of the two and lost only because Fator was unable to keep him straight. He had a slight margin in the run to the first turn, but on the backstretch dropped back and Redstone, Stoto and Fair Gain alternated in setting the pace. In the stretch Fator came to the outside and at the eighth post, when he looked as if he would go to the front, his horse swerved about first to the outside and then to the inside. The ground that he lost cost him the victory, for Fair Gain only beat him out a short head. Stoto was a tiring third. The conditions of the race that Flying Jacque won called for maidens of all ages foaled in Canada, to be ridden by jockeys who had never ridden a winner. Uptown threatened to upset calculations by dashing to the front soon after the start ana racing into a commanding lead. In the stretch run she collapsed, however, and dropped completely out of the running and at the eighth post Blossoms looked a certain winner. Crosswell was absolutely no help to her and the filly simply quit under him. Flying Jacque came fast at the end and won going away in the final strides by half a length from Blossoms. Then came Bloor, a length away and a head in front of My Solace. Rome Respess, furnished the winner of the opening dash in Bullion, which galloped home an easy winner from Quanah. Flag of Truce, from the Ross stable, proved an easy winner over Banner Bearer in the second, beating the latter by almost half a dozen lengths. Baronet galloped home with a commanding lead in the steeplechase. FINAL DASH BRINGS SUCCESS. Yorkist gave his backers some anxious moments in the early stages of the sixth race, in which he was a distant follower for five of the eight and a half furlongs of the journey. In the stretch he came to the outside and finished with a rush, and won going away by a length from June Fly. The racing season for 1922 in the vicinity of Toronto will come to a close with the running of Wednesdays program. Besides the Durham Cup, ,500 added, at one mile and three-quarters, and the Grey Stakes, ,000 added, for two-year-olds, at one mile, there are two steeplechases, one over the two-mile course and the other over the three-mile course. The following owners leave for Laurel Thursday: J. W. Dayton, J. Arthur, "W. G. Wilson, Robert McKeever, W. J. Kramer, R. V. Strassburger, Mrs. F. A. Clark, A. F. Dayton, "Woods Garth with the J. S. Cosden string, Silas "Veitch with the C. K. Harrison string of jumpers, Fred Musante, Henry Mc-Daniel with the big Ross stable, and the Fox-head Mews string of jumpers. The shipment will leave on a special made up of about a dozen cars. J. B. Campbell, who has been acting as one of the judges at "Woodbine, leaves for Maryland tomorrow night to arrange the details for the opening of the Laurel meeting. Jockey E. Ambrose was taken sick this morning and was forced to cancel his engagements this afternoon. Mike Daly and J. F. Hynes left this morning with their horses for the Maple Heights track in Cleveland.
