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! I I j I I ! | I | | | ■ j i I ! j i j ! iSARKOS THRILLING FINISH I » Scores Sensational Victory in the 3 Main Race at Thorncliffe Park. » Marks First Success of Kenton Stable at t Meeting — Gray Gables Outlasts Anglum 31aid After Spirited Stretch Battle. ♦ TORONTO, Ont., May 29.— Sarko, carrying 5 the white and red colors of the Kenton 0 Stable, was returned winner of the Broadview - Handicap, feature attraction on Thurs- - days program at Thorncliffe Park, after r one of the most thrilling finishes ever wit-. nessed at the track. At the end he scored j by a nose from James Arthurs Leonard G., , while third fell to J. W. Daytons Wraith. Ideal weather conditions again prevailed and another large crowd turned out to witness the sport. Gantner was most alert at the post and , from a good start he sent Sarko to the front and opened up a good gap on the others. Wraith followed closest in pursuit, while ? Ombrage was racing in third position and Leonard G. was trailing far back. Entering • the homestretch Lang sent Leonard G. after r the leaders and, coming around on the outside, the colt closed with a cyclonic rush and would have beaten the winner had the distance been a triflo greater. Incidentally " this race marked the first victory of the meeting for the Kenton Stable and a double ; for jockey Gantner. The secondary feature of the days races resulted in a driving finish between J. P. • Smiths Gray Gables and E. Trotters Ang-lum Maid, the former winning by a length, • while Anglum Maid took second place by three lengths from the early pacemaker, Warning. Warning started out to make a runaway-affair of the race and set a fast pace for r the first half mile. Rounding the turn for | [ j home Gantner called upon Gray Gables and j the son of Assagai gamely responded to! 5 | 1 the call and at the end he was drawing clear from the others. Anglum Maid tired when 1 challenged by the winner. Jockey F. Stevens rode his second winner of the afternoon when he guided L. R. Kni- fongs Doctor Corbett to a clear victory over Arendal and Racket in the third race. Doctor Corbett had to be much the best to 1 win. He began slowly, but made up ground rapidly and, overhauling the leaders one by one, came with a big rush in the stretch and at the end won easily by a length and a half. Arendal tired badly after racing into the ; lead when entering the stretch and just managed to last it out for second place. King John, after following the early pace 1 closely, came with a belated rurh in the stretch to win the sixth race, at one mile and a sixteenth. At the end he scored by a length from Cote dOr, with the early pacemaker, Plow Steel, in third place, two lengths farther back. Seven juveniles paraded for the opening race at four and a half furlongs. This fell to L. Campbells speedy colt Earla Baby, a ! ! son of Earla Mor and War Baby. Earla i Baby was easily best of the field. Chalmers I I sent him into a long early lead and rounding • ! the turn for home he drew away from the , [ Other* and at the end won by a length from 1 Effort. Battleman finished third, three i j j lengths further back and a length before . Padlock. i It was a bulky field of Canadian-foaled | platers that faced starter Cassidy in the sac- ! ■ ond race at five and a half furlongs. The | Continued on sixteenth page. SARKOS THRILLING FINISH Continued from first page. winner turned up in Mrs. II. L. Smiths Lady Heart. in a hard drive from J. C. Fletchers Algonquin, while third place went to W. G. Campbells Broadview. Joe Tague received a wire from J. Murphy asking him to reserve stable accommodations for six horses at Dufferin Park. Following are included in the string: Frank G.. Black Art. Midnight Stories and three others. E. H. Vivell arrived this morning from his plantation in Iorto Rico. Mr. Vivell immediately took up his duties at Dufi.riu Park. Mrs. G. IT. Abbott stopped over en route to Ottawa from Reno. New, where she had gone to attend the burial of her father, the late G. D. Heard. The clubhouse at Hamilton has been raised and the lawn terraced, also built a large balcony which runs from the clubhouse to the grandstand. Starter Marshall Cassidy arrived and took over the position of starter from Geo. Palmer, who will now act as chief assistant to Mr. Cassidy. Previous to the running of the first race judge Joseph Murphy and starter Cassidy called the jockeys together and again cautioned them about rough riding, stating that any further occurrence of the same would mean indefinite suspension. Senator Norris. who was here as a guest of Mr. Bedwell. left last night for his home in Baltimore, Md. *
