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NASSAU AND HARRY BAKER Win Chief Attractions of Tues ¬ days Racing at Dorval Park Bedstone With Better Hide Might Hare HareBeaten Beaten Hassan Marjorie Cs Third ThirdStraight Straight Success MONTREAL Que June 23 The Queens Hotel Cup at a mile and a sixteenth and the Lake Shore purse at a mile and seventy yards featured the program offered racing patrons today at Dorval Park The two j attractions around which a well balanced card was built and the fine weather brought nearly 0000 persons to the courss The track heavy yesterday had dried out con ¬ siderably and it was in good condition by post time With no more rain it will be fast again tomorrow tomorrowThe The Queens Hotel Cup was marred by scratches which reduced the field to three It was won by S N Holmans Nassau which beat the Seagram Stables Redstone by a half length E K Brysons Setting Sun the remaining starter was a distant third Away flying Kennedy took Redstone under choking restraint and he had so much taken out of him fighting for his head that he yielded readily when Nassau challenged on the far turn He came again however in the stretch and finished lapped on the win ner There is little doubt that if Kennedy had let him run freely as he has shown a liking to do in all his races he would have bsen returned the winner Baker rode Nas sau and handled him well Following the race Hon Athanase David secretary of the province of Quebec pre scnted Cecil Howard trainer of the Holman stable with the beautiful cup The Lake Shore Purse fell to Harry Baker the oddson favorite Bullet Proof was first to give chase to Harry Baker but he killed him off in the run through the back stretch Here Barracuda took up the task of forcing the pace but the Joyce colt had him whipped at the head of the stretch Pixola moved tip with a strong challenge at this point but lost whatever chance he had of winning by going extremely wide He recovered gamely but by this time Harry Baker had moved away into a safe lead and Bourassa had to turn all his attention to beating Wavecrest for second place placeThe The first two races of the program were split dashes at threequarters The opener attracted ten starters and witnessed th i i triumph of Venus Seguin had her up in a powerful drive to get the verdict by a nod nodifrom ifrom Dr T S Dabney DabneyWarehouseman Warehouseman toyed with a band of nine in the second From a walking start Moore took him right to the front and he led for fori somethingI i the entire distance winning with something to spare spareMarjorie Marjorie C won her third straight race on the Canadian circuit when she accounted for the sixth in a thrilling drive in which she defeated Contentment by a head headMiss Miss Fortune which ran absolutely last in a race yesterday was refreshed suffi ¬ ciently by a nights rest to win the final dash and paid the generous price of 7100 It was one of the most marked form reversals seen in Canada this year Yesterday she was always a distant trailer but she was a different horse today going to the leaders with a rush coming into the stretch and standing a long drive gamely to beat Sasper a head The latter was five lengths in front of Polite PoliteJockey Jockey Petie Walls was under the weather due to his teeth which have been giving him considerable trouble since his fall at Wood ¬ bine He accepted no mounts during todays racing
