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TATTLING AUSPICIOUSLY Wins Breeders Stakes on First Appearance of Year Haplite Kings Plate Winner Falls Dismally Double Victory for J K I IRoss Ross Stable TORONTO Ont May 25 The Ontario Jockey Club offered as a feature this afternoon the Breeders Stakes the conditions of which called for threeyearolds bred in Canada It was at a mile and a sixteenth and carried 3000 added This event gave the J K L Ross stable an opportunity of showing their crack twoyearold of last year Tattling It was the latters first appear ¬ ance as a threeyearold and despite the fact that she had never gone such a route the pub ¬ lic accepted a very short price about her chances Tattling went to the post a 1 to 4 favorite She was ridden by P Walls car ¬ ried top weight and found no trouble in beating her opponents She won by a length from Phanariot Taurus was third five lengths farther away awayThe The Breeders Stakes was carded as the fourth race It brpught out a field of seven with Phanariot Haplite and QuartzSinter coupled as the Seagram entry and Heretrix and Taurus as the Millar entry A bit nervous at the post Tattling began second and Walls immediately took her in hand and on the back stretch dropped in behind the leaders Tattling was under restraint until rounding the far turn and when Walls called on her she went to the front with a rush and in the stretch drew away Phanariot made the pace Haplite the Kings Plat ewinner was never a factor and was fifth at the finish finishHigh High Court ran like a real good jumper in the Hopeful Steeplechase Ridden by S Veitch he made his opponents look cheap and after making all of the pace beat Father Tom by a length When the start came High Court took the lead and kept it After draw ¬ ing away the first eighth he was taken in hand and was under restraint most of the way Going to the fourteenth jump Craw ¬ ford sent Father Tom up with a rush and for a time it looked is if he might score High Court was too good for him however and when released from restraint again drew away to win with something in reserve at the end Oyster Bed was a distant third while Jane II was beaten off The other two met with mishaps Commodore Ingraham losing his rider at the tenth jump while Plaud more Saintly fell at the fourteenth fourteenthThe The third race resulted in an easy victory for W S Kilmers Sun Lynn Walls alert at the post was off in front when the bar ¬ rier was sprung and he remained there throughout vinning easily at the end by a couple of lengths from Overlord AmenRa first time starter was third beaten four lengths for second place The winner was much the best of her rivals and the result was never in doubt after they had gone an eighth Rounding the far turn Thompson sent AmenRa up with a determined chal ¬ lenge but Sun Lynn was too good for him when released from restraint again drew away awayThe The Burkhart Stable scored another vic ¬ tory when Ensile won the Howick Plate first on the card She was ridden by Munden and was a heavily backed favorite A bit fractious going to the post Ensile was Continuid on sixteenth pnge TATTLING AUSPICIOUSLY Continued from first page taken to the extreme outside post position and when the barrier was sprung was off in front and remained there At no stage of the distance was the result in doubt for Ensile always held her opponents safe for speed At the end she had an advantage of two lengths and a half over Sea Lady which in turn beat Danger Signal by a length and a half for second place placeMr Mr Pepp Token and Lieutenant II staged a great stretch battle in the Falmouth Plate Handicap and at the end this trio passed the winning mark as samed necks apart Lieu ¬ tenant II started out with a rush taking the lead in the run to the first turn Stott hugged the rail and in the first half mile raced Kings Court into submission The leader was racing under restraint and when Kings Court quit Butwell sent Mr Pepp up with a challenge Hounding the far turn it looked as if Lieutenant II held Mr Pepp safe Butwell never gave up however and straightened out for the run through the home stretch Mr Pepp again made a desper ¬ ate effort Tlight at the end Lieutenant II began to weaken and Mr Pepp passed him as did also Token It was a desperate battle between them and Mr Pepps victory was in a measure due to the rousing finish that But well put up upThe The Ross stable made it a double when Hi jo beat a cheap band of maidens in the Ilnwick Plate Like Tattling Hi jo was a shortpriced favorite Claver had the mount The start was a sort of ragged one Just as the barrier was sprung Hijo reared up and this made the start look worse than what it really was The Seagram entry Sun Swept was away clear and fast and Thomp ¬ son making the most of his advantage rushed him away into a two lengths lead Round the far turn Claver made his move with Hijo and the latter went to the pace ¬ maker with a rush and entering the home stretch took the lead Once in front Hijo remained there but at the end he weakened