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SATURDAY AT DORVAL PARK Showery Weather Hurts the Attendance and Mars the Racing. Redstone Captures Lord.Shaughnessy Cup-Rumor of Meeting Closing Prematurely Denied. MONTREAL, Que., Sept 6. Redstone carried the colors of the Seagram Stable to victory in the Lord Shaughnessy Cup, a handicap at a mile and an eighth and the feature at Dorval Park this afternoon. Four lengths behind the gelding came Opperman which beat Flag of Truce by half a length. Fredericktown finished fourth and last four lengths behind the placed three. Wilson rated the winner in second position behind Flag of Truce until straightened out. Then he called and the Seagram representative drew away without effort. Flag of Truce began to tire at the same time and Opperman caught him in the closing strides. Fredericktown left the post several lengths behind his opponents. He made up the ground in a little more than half a mile while the others were galloping along under restraint but weakened when put under punishment at the half mile post. The weather today was a puzzle. Showers in the morning were followed by sunshine. Then later another shower came along for the feature race. Throughout these vagaries it remained too cool for the complete enjoyment of the racing. The crowd was as large as could be expected on such a day, about 3,500 saw the program run off. The bad weather and the attendant slump in attendance at the opening yesterday coupled with the abandonment of the meeting in Quebec City gave rise today to a rumor that the current meeting would me closed prematurely. Fred Richard, vice president of the association, emphatically denied the truth of the report. "We will go through the program if it snows," was his comment. "Please deny the report." WANDERLUST IN FRONT. The long streak of ill luck in which L. P. Phelps has been playing, was broken in the first race when his Theo Cook Gloire de Verdun filly, Wanderlust, finished at the front of the procession. Running true to the form displayed by the Theo Cook in the mud, Wanderlust showed her usual high speed and held on better than usual to win by a length from Petition. Aggie got up in the closing strides to take third money. Renzetti rode the winner. Atlantida set the pace in the three-quarters of the second race, which engaged five Canadian-breds, but Pete Walls brought J. M. Ritchies Wych Elm around her on the turn and drew away from her in the stretch to the extent of a length and a half. Atlantida beat Warehouseman by length for the second portion of the purse. Renzetti rode his second winner of the-afternoon when he got home two lengths in front of Capt Clover with. W. Wicks Par-thema. He was in front all the way with the daughter of Rapid Water. Blue Brush forced the pace into the stretch and then tired. Capt. Clover gained steadily from a slow beginning and finished with good speed. Planet and Park Hill, sons of Zeus, from Black Silks and Edna Collins, respectively, finished first and second in the fifth. It was at a mile and seventy yards. The winner was ridden by Sharpe and carried the silks of C. B. Shafer. He followed the pace easily and closely, went to the front on the far turn and won from there on easily. Anne was third. The sixth race was at a mile and seventy yards and fell to Tarascon, from the barn of O. Viau. McTague rode the winner well. Pedestrian closed fast for second money. Nivlag tired but saved third.
