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i i I j ! ! j j j i ! | i ; j , ; i ; | j I | : ; I I | ! ! , ] j j [ • , i WINS IN THE LAST STRIDE i General Thatcher Scores in King Edward Hotel Gold Cup. i Coronation Slakes to Seagram Stables Pnan- arlot With Stable Companion, Hap- lite, Finishing Second. • TORONTO, Ont, May 27.— In a head and head finish General Thatcher got up in the last stride to win the twenty-first running of the King Edward Hotel Gold Cup for the Nevada Stock Farm, with E. F. Whitneys Joy Smoke second and Wilderness, the pacemaker, only a head back. The Gold Cup was presented to George Wingfield, owner of the Nevada Stock Farm Stable, by presi-: dent Alvert E. Dyment Seldom has a better stretch duel been wit- nesscd as that furnished by the three placed horses. Wilderness was off in front, closely followed by Digit and Redstone, with Joy Smoke and Wilkcs-Barre right behind and General Thatcher within striking distance. Redstone was the first to drop back. Digit repeating the performance at the lower stretch turn. At the stretch head Joy Smoke moved up to Wilderness and the battle down the stretch began. At the eighth post Joy Smoke assumed a head lead and the race looked to be at his mercy, but General Thatcher came with a great burst of speed on the outside to win by a small margin. The race down the stretch was a hard one and the pace throughout a hot one. as the time of 1 :45%, only three-fifths behind the track record, attests. There was much improvement in weather conditions and a crowd above the ordinary journeyed to the Woodbine today, over twelve thousand people being present when the bugle sounded for the first race. The King Edward Hotel Gold Cup and the Coro- nation Stakes, each with ,000 added, were generous offerings for mid-week racing and the public responded in a remarkable man- ner. While there was considerable of a breeze blowing into the stands, it was not really cold and, where the sun cast its rays. it was really enjoyable. The Coronation Stakes, with its ,000 added, fell to the Seagram Stables Phan-ariot and Haplite, running first and second. with Mrs. L. A. Livingstons Fear Not third, an added starter. Lancet, on Haplite, could have won the race with. Haplite, but he chose to let the verdict go to Phanariot, which bore Continued on sixteenth page. WINS IN THE LAST STRIDE • Continued from first pnffe. out all down the stretch, finishing in the middle of the track. Phanariot did not take long to rush into the lead, with Fear Not in close attendance and South West next. Haplite and Heretrix were back, but not too far away. Entering the stretch Phanariot ran wide and Fear Not and South West closed on him. Meanwhile Haplite moved up and disposed of South West and Fear Not, with the latter holding on the longest. As Phanariot bore out in the stretch, Haplite passed Fear Not, taking the rail and could have gone on had Lancet chesen to beat his stablemate, which was allowed to win on sufferance. There was a thrill in the first race, when Uusovias saddle slipped when about haif way down the back stretch and A. Abel hit the dirt. Cudgeller was thrown off his stride by Rusovia and losing Albert Claver, who was astride the Cugdel colt. Abel was quickly on his feet and walked back to the jockeys room, but Claver required an ambulance. The race the first division of the Howick Plate, for maiden two-year-olds at three-quarters and J. P. Orogans well backed Harrow was an easy winner from Mrs. Kinley and Candymaker. Harrow was the inside "good thing" and was backed down from 15 to 3 to 1. The winner, making his first start, was ridden by H. Howard and he | J quickly went to the front to gain an easy : victory. When the webbing sprung, Mrs. I Finley, Harrow and Candymaker were off ; I in the first flight and dominated the running | throughout Harrow quickly took the lead from Mrs. Finley in the back stretch and th? , | three raced to the wire in the same position i j as they finished, without varying the gap between them. Wrackhorn was the easiest kind of a win- j ner in the Victorious Plate at a mile and i [seventy yards, fifth on the program, over-: hauling Muskallonge in the stretch to win by j a wide margin. Fornovo was third. In the Hendigo Plate, third on the card. Clapper came from behind in the stretch to beat Topsy in the last stride while Foreman, which had been third throughout, finished in that position without much opposition. There was an unusual occurrence prior to the running. E. K. Brysons Twinola, lagging! behind the field and appearing quite lame in j the parade to the post. Starter Morrissey got down from the stand, examined her, making her jog up and down and then decided she must face the barrier. She ran the full distance but was last. The winner paid 22.20 for a two dollar ticket to win. 7.55 i to place and S.35 to show. The price was the largest paid at the meeting. It is not often that the Ontario Jockey Club stages eight races or that any association for that matter, runs a race without betting, but that is what happened this afternoon at the Woodbine course. The Minto Steeplechase failed to fill, only two entries being received, although the purse was ,000, so the jockey cluh decided to keep faith with the owners of the jumpers and with the public decided to allow the two j horses. Ipsal and Hlaek Fox to contest for the purse, permitting no wagering and substituting another race to round out the days program, something that was hardly necessary with the calibre and number of horses competing, but it was a tribute to the Ontario Jockey Club to do what they did. For a two-horse race it was a nice contest both horses jumping cleanly and well all the way and the margin between them was never more than two lengths until the last fifty yards when Black Fox tired and dropped back to lie beaten about five lengths. Ipsal was slightly in the It ad from the start, sprinting off again every time Black Fox threatened which was often, and the winner at all times looked to be the better of the two. In the second division of the Howick Plate, Slieve Hoi. which races for H. I,. Humphreys, was a handy winner, running from Seven Oaks in the stretch and won easily in front i.f Triekey Take Off and Chlquita. The winner is one of the f.w gray colored hors-s racing and is a four-year-old cult. Tho but gray horse to win at Woodbine was Toscanelli. Mintstick, which has started twice already at the meeting, unplaced on both occasions, is atiother gray.
