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THORNCLIFFES LAST DAY » Commissioner, at Odds-On, Easily Best in Brockton Purse. ♦ MeCranns Poor Hide Beats Flying Cloud, Smallest of Margins Separating Him From Deronda and Roseate II. » . TORONTO. Ont. June 8.— After a weekend, trying to dodge the Intense heat, followers of the sport were not so keen on patronizing Thorncliffe on closing day as they might otherwise have been. They reckoned without a south wind, however, that blew right into the stand, making conditions more than bearable, than on any other day of the meeting. The program offered was a fair one, having three sprints and four races at distances over the mile and, while the scratches were numerous, the fields still remained large, with no particular standouts. G. C. Dennys Commissioner was made an odds-on choice in the fourth race, the Brockton I Purse, the chief offering of the closing program, which was at five and a half furlongs, and he ran according to expectations of his backers. Following Pictin to the stretch and then moving up without effort, he assumed a quick lead and was under restraint down the stretch. Pictin was just as much the best over the third horse, Candy Maker, for second place. The rest furnished no contention in the stretch run. Flying Cloud was much the best in the fifth race, which was at a mile and a sixteenth, but the poorest kind of a ride by McCrann resulted in his finishing third, beaten two noses by Deronda and Roseate II. Flying Cloud,, on the rail, was first to leave the barrier, but McCrann showed timidity in taking up just past the judges stand and was crowded back to fifth place. He was then taken to the outside and allowed to run wide at the three-quarters chute. ! After moving up menacingly going around the turn into the homestretch, McCrann took up again and went to the outside. Flying Cloud finished fastest of the first three horses, which were noses apart at the end and was still on the outside. Deronda hugged the rail down the stretch and just was able to stand off Roseate II. and Flying Cloud long enough to get the verdict.
