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HOCHELAGA TO HEAD COVER Shows High Speed to Annex Main Attraction at, Blue Bonnets. Steeplechase Falls lo Cooncan Thornton First By a IScclc Odd Scth Wins Another Turso for C. B. Shafer. MONTREAL, Que., Sept. 18. Running under restraint and ridden by Terry Wilson Head Cover this afternoon won the fourteenth, renewal of the Hochelaga Handicap, ono of the leading juvenile fixtures of. Blue Bonnets fall racing. The son of Helmet Bird Loose showed high speed under the favorable impost of 105 pounds. Sea Fairy and Foolscap finished second and third to Head Cover. Another pleasant day and a good sized week-day crowd attended the fifth program of the meeting. The meeting will close Saturday. With it will come to an end racing in this part of the Dominion for this year. Three started in the claiming steeplechase that opened the program. Williams rode Cooncan to victory at the termination of two miles. Under a well managed ride by Pete Walls Manila won the second race for the account of Commander J. K. L. Ross. Miryachit and Duchess II. split up the remainder of tho purse. Thornton won the third race by a neck. Fair and Warmer was in second place at the end of the seven-eighths. War Tank finished third. McTague rode the Brookdale Stable horse well. C. B. Shafer reaped his daily harvest when Sharpo rode Odd Seth to victory by a neck over Equity. Black Wand was third at the end of the mile. Peter Piper had his speed in the fifth and won by three and a half lengths in front cf Tease which beat Exit by a neck. Sharpe had the leg on the winner, which belongs to F. Swenke. Toscanelli of the Seagram Stable with A. Clausner in the saddle won the final race, beating St Quentin by a neck in a contes at a mile. Georgia May made the pace but faltered in the stretch to get the third portion. Because tho apprentice allowance of J. McTague for outside mounts expired when he piloted Thornton" to victory in the third race, the five-pound aallowance was waived so that he might ride Admirer in the fifth and Tarascon in the seventh.
