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OTTAWAS HOLIDAY CARD Hr ! Devoid of Feature But Nevertheless Big- Crowd Turns Out. Leatherwood First in Best Contest of Day Ambroses Good Judgment Aids Tarascon to Victory. .J- OTTAWA, Ont, Sept. 1. Labor Day brought out the largest crowd of either or. the Connaught Park meetings. There were about 6,000 persons in Vhe assemblage. The day was warm and ilear. The card was below average, through the failure to . fill the scheduled feature. Despite the fact that all the races were claiming contests, tho sport was spirited and formful. The first race was for two-year-olds. Prince Theo from the Seagram Stable finished a length and a half in front of Wine Jug. Trigger was third. Wilson rode the winner. Play On, which T. J. Donohue trains for C. L. Whiting, won the second race on the card. The son of Play Square was with tho leaders throughout the three-quarters. He passed Tease in the stretch and held on well in a drive. Rachel Potter was third. Mc-Tague had the leg on the winner. Ambrose used good judgment on Tarascon in the third while the O. Viau representative was being outrun in the early part of the mile and a sixteenth. He sat still while the leaders were cutting out a killing pace but moved in time to get to the front in tho final sixteenth and won by a length and a half. Sir Galahad II. was beaten a length for the second portion by Flint, the pacemaker. Teas Ready won all the way in the fourth. Pie carried the silks of the Thorncliffe Stable. E. Ambrose rode him. his second winner of tlie day. The Tea Caddy colt went to tlie front shortly after the rise of tho barrier, showed the way under good rating and easily held a three-length advantage throughout the last three-eighths of the race. Zanzibar closed fast , for second money and beat Toscanelli half a length. The best field to answer the bugle call in the afternoon ran three-quarters in the fifth race. Six made the contest Leatherwood beat the others home, but was under pressure at the end to win by a nose frp.m Odd Seth. Admirer was third. Leatherwood went to the front shortly after the start, raced Miss Domino into defeat in the first half and shook off a challenge from Montifringilla before being called on to stand off Odd Seth. Wilson rode the winner. Mrs. G. H. Abbotts Wedding Prince won the sixth. It was at a mile and seventy yards. The gelding was close up all the way under the good riding of Baker and won by half a length from Blossoms, which closed fast. War Tank was third. Stonewall won the final, beating Royden a good length in a contest at a mile and an eighth. Cordelier was third, two lengths farther back. Baker rode the winner, his second of the afternoon. Baker, Wilson and Ambrose each rode two winners. Mrs. J. D. Misick owns the winner.
