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LADIES DAY AT CONNAUGHT Brings Out Large Attendance Despite Unfavorable Weather. Seagram Stables Oland First In Main Race Sister Josella Beats Dr. Charles Wells By a Jfose. OTTAWA, Ont, Sept. 2. Observance of a ladies day at Connaught Park this aftex-noon brought out a large crowd despite unfavorable weather conditions. It rained hard this morning and clouds hovered oyer the course through the afternoon but no more rain fell. The card lacked an outstanding feature but the third race brought out a field of two-year-olds that were more evenly matched than the contestants in any of the other six races. There were eight starters in this race and Oland of the Seagram Stable was the favorite and winner. The son of Olambala was always close up while Note o Love was setting the pace and when the latter tired drew clear to win by a safe margin. Caduceus, a first-time starter, won the opening race. It was at five-eighths. He beat Lydia Drew by a length and a quarter. Samosata was coupled with Caduceus and finished third. Pete Walls had the leg on the winner which carried the silks of Commander J. K. L. Ross and rated as the best juvenile in the barn. He is a well formed son of Cudgel or Sir Barton from Melody. Wych Elm beat a bad band of Canadian-breds in a contest at three-quarters. It came second on the program. Atlantida and Game Scrapper divided the remainder of the purse. Atlantida was a head in front of the winner until after the turn into the stretch. C. B. Shafers Sister Josella triumphed by a nose over Dr. Charles Wells in the fourth race of the day. Sharpe rode the Meelick i filly. Marie Maxim beat the others over tho three-quarters route. Marie Maxim had the speed but tired under 117 pounds in the going. Black Wand won pulling up in the fifth. It was at a mile and seventy yards. Howard had tho leg on the J. A. Harper representative, which caught the pacemaker, Ombrage, opened up a lead entering the stretch and won from there on under restraint, being six lengths in advance of Wrack Ray at the end. Ombrage held on for third money. The major portion of the purse in the sixth fell to Park Hill upon which Howard was riding his second winner. He went to the front in the backstretch, raced Vendor into defeat and won by four lengths. Vendor saved the second portion. Attorney Muir got up in the closing strides to be third. The winner belongs to R. E. Vickerman. P. L. Ciceris Tiger Tim came from third place to victory in the final half mile of the seventh which was at a mile and a sixteenth. He was tiring at the end and Bour-assa had to ride hard to keep him going long enough to beat Scraps half a length. Ti-cacey was third.
