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1 ! I FIRST IN HAMILTON DERBY Dixie Smith, Son of a Kentucky Derby Winner, Triumphant. Beats Senator Norris and Malapert Before an Opening Day Crowd of About 9,000 Persons. HAMILTON, Ont, June 24. Ideal conditions surrounded the opening of the seven-day meeting of the Hamilton Jockey Club this afternoon. A crowd of a size about that of other years turned out to see the sixteenth running of the Hamilton Derby, and six other races. There were about nine thousand persons in the stands and upon the lawn when the horses in the feature went to the post The track was fast and the skies clear and a breeze tempered the heat to a nicety. Dixie Smith, son of a Kentucky Derby winner, won the Hamilton Derby. He carried the silks of Preston M. Burch, who trains him. Dixie Smith is by George Smith, which won the Kentucky Derby in 1916. Senator Norris finished second and Malapert was third at the end of the mile and a quarter. Digit and Teas Ready also ran. It was a good race. Senator Norris went to the front in the run for the first turn and was rated in the van until straightened out- Digit followed the early pace closest and his stablemate, Malapert, moved into a contending position beginning the final turn as if about to race into the lead. Lee meanwhile was rating Dixie Smith next to the inside rail under stout restraint. He obtained clear sailing around the turn and into the straightaway. At the eighth post he pulled his whip and called on the George Smith colt, which responded readily and won going away .by a length and a quarter. Sen- ator Norris, giving fifteen pounds to the Avin-! ner, held on better than those behind him, all of which tired in the final test. R. McKeevers Watch Charm won his second in succession when he finished in front of a large band of mediocre platers in the sixth, which was at five and a half furlongs. Peter Piper dropped into second place, being collared right at the end. Carajo beat nine others. Renzetti, the stable rider, did well on the winner, rating him close to the pace and making his move in time to win by a neck. As nearly everybody expected, Shuffle Along won the Salisbury Handicap, the secondary attraction on the inaugural card. It was a race at three-quarters. Mainmast and Sarko finished second and third to the son of Luke McLuke, which completed a double for the stable of A. C. Bostwick. Sarko outran the others from the start, with Shuffle Along always in closest pursuit After straightening out Stevens set the Bostwick representative down and he drew away to win by a length. Mainmast also overhauled the pacemaker when straightened for home. The others never figured seriously in the running. Trevan gathered the laurels connected with the first race of the meeting, carrying the silks of A.. C. Bostwick. The Treviscot colt had only run once before today, having made his debut at Thorncliffe. E. Kummer saved ground with the youngster and hustled him Contirucd on twelfth page. FIRST IN HAMILTON DERBY Continued from first page. to the front in the final sixteenth and won going away from Note o Love. Night Shade beat the others in a field of six. .Mrs. B. McEachrens Top Notch sprinted into the longest early lead seen in a steeplechase in years and won by three lengths easily, with A. Ferguson in the saddle. Sans Peche and Minata divided up the remainder of the purse for the Auteuil Steeplechase, which took the seven contestants over two miles of course. When Ferguson opened up twenty lengths lead in the first turn of the field it seemed that he was making too much use of the Berrildon gelding, but the horse was equal to the task of setting such a fast pace and continued unchallenged to the finish. W. Harvey rushed Maypole off in front in the Canadian-bred race and the Brookdale Stable filly staggered home three parts of a length in front of Trail Blazer, which forced the pace all the way. Beau of the West was always third. Fred Schelke, who formerly trained for the Thorncliffe Stable, owner of Trail Blazer, saddled the one that beat their representative home. The following are the officials of the meeting opening today: Stewards, J. F. Monck, J. B. Campbell, Gordon J. Henderson, Frances Nelson representing the Canadian Racing Associations ; presiding judge, David S. Gilles; associate judge, D. Boyle; clerk of the scales, Joseph McLennan; starter, Harry Morrissey; paddock judge, J. W. Grostes; timer, W. C. McMullen; handicapper, J. B. Campbell; track physician, H. W. Wardell; secretary-treasurer, A. R. Loudon. .
