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] • j I j : 1 | I COMMANDER ROSS COLORS 1 j 1 Carried To First Victory at Present Blue Bonnets Meeting. • Cambridge the Sccressfnl Standard Bearer In onnaught Cup Handicap — Weather Threatening. 1 MOXTRKAU Que., June 15.— The colors of Commander J. K. L. Ross were down in front this afternoon for the first time at j Blue Bonnets meeting. Cambridge, a son I i of Marathon, proved a handy winner of the I renewal of the Connaught Cup Handicap, an event for Canadian-breds at a mile and I an eighth, in which four started. Cambridges i success was an easy one. Kings Court. ! from the Seagram Stable went to the front at the start, with Cambridge in close attendance, i and on sufferance made the pace for half a mile. Claver then called on Cambridge, which moved up sturdily into the lead and was never seriously threaten.il. He finished a couple of lengths to the good ; j with Claver shaking the whip under his I nose, while Kings Court was hard ridden. Despite overcast skies and showery wea- ther the largest week day crowd of the I meeting turned out, well over three thousand | being in attendance. Maiden jockeys rode the thirteen platers i which went to the post in the opening race, a IbllH If Briers dash. V. V. Martins Just Fine, with H. Fisher astride her, was the1 winner. She showed more speed than her rivals and. saving ground all the way, barely lasted to defeat Flint. Blue Brush, closer to the leaders than usual, was pressing the first 1 two hard in third place. Taras-.on was " fourth after being a contender from the " start. I Jipsy Flyer, from the W. V. Casey stable, " , trimmed a band of six three-year-olds at a • i mile in the second. Slow to get going, as usual, Thompson saved ground with her all the way and, slipping through on the rail at the turn into the stretch, drew out at will in " I the run to the finish. Contentment also was r : sluggish in leaving the barrier and ran a 1 i good race to be second. Trigger, close up I throughout, tired in the stretch, but had enough left to save third place. Kim went ■ out in a long early lead, but tired. Ben i Franklin was under pressure all the way, but 1 was a dismal last. . I 1 Continued on six t .-.-iith pae. COMMANDER ROSS COLORS Continued from first pare.* "Walter J. Salmons Zeppelin took thfl third race at five-eighths, beating R. W. Carters Kndor by a scant nose. Cozy, also from the Carter stable, was third. K. F. Whitneys Compromise was fourth after being caught flat-footed at the barrier. Snooksie K., the remaining starter, pulled up last. Zeppelin was close to the pace throughout but Hastings rode him confidently after assuming the lead in the stretch and almost tossed it off. Kndor trailed the leaders to the stretch where he slipped through on th*; inside and finished fast, drew up on even terms with Zcpiwlin in the last sixteenth and had his head in front in the last twenty yards but could not maintain his advantage. Jack Pry re saddled his second winner of the afternoon when he sent Faddist to the post for R. T. Wilson in the fifth, the Monk-lands Purse, the second feature. Faddist Fcored after a good drive from Ceylon Prince. Arno was third. Caladium was made an even money favorite on the strength of his race Saturday in which he defeated Mainmast and Digit, but turned in a dismal per-fermance, pulling up last. The Ross Stable j*"t»red its second victory of the afternoon when Cudgeller took thr; sixth, a three-quarter sprint for maid.-ns. OH in front he raced Irish Skies into defeat in the run to the streteh and drew away into a safe lead. Half Plat was second. He wan probaMy best but was practically last to leave the barrier and then In it IT fl of trying to save gn.uud with him Ridenour rote him wide all the way. He finished running over the winner and tandoobfc dly would have baea a keen oaaaeaaVr with stronger handling. Pole Star, well up throughout, was third. •»
