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« I CANADIAN TURF GOSSIP f s $ TORONTO, Ont, May 22. Thomas McCreary, who left for New York Saturday night to look over the division of his stable quartered at Belmont Park, returned to Toronto Monday morning. Mr. McCreary will remain for the Woodbine meeting. B. Alexandra was a belated arrival from Jamaica with Care Free and other platers in his stable. Jockey J. Chalmers accompanied him from New York and will ride as a free lance. The two-year-old Rapid Transit cut himself in several places in his race Saturday. The mishap occurred in the jam at the half mile post, when Benish Way bore over from the outside. Beginning Tuesday, May 22, Kennedy Hill will be at the racing secretarys office at Thorncliffe from 8 a. m. till 10 :30 to take entries and scratches for Woodbine. Beginning Wednesday. May 23, scratch time will close at 8 a. m. instead of 8 :30 a. m. Jockey V. Wallis, who will ride the horses in the public stable that W. Irvine is training, got in from New York this morning. Exultant had a car fit en route from Thorncliffe to Woodbine Monday and was unloaded half way over. He was excused from I tarting in the seventh race by the stewards. James Dew, manager of the mutuel department at Thorncliffe Park, was an arrival irom Baltimore. W. A. Woolatt. who has taken over the old Windsor track for the season, was a visitor. He reported that an action was instituted in the courts at WinJsor asking that a receiver be appointed for the Devonshire track. Immediately following the close of the meeting J. B. Campbell will make a hurried departure for St. Louis, where he is engaged as racing secretary and steward. Fairmount Park should have a wonderful meeting this summer. A. Maclvor, an apprentice under contract to the Riverdale Stable, will have his first mount of the season tomorrow. Stanley Gillespie, connected with various racing associations throughout the states and Canada as assistant in the secretarys office, is here, having arrived from New York yesterday. J. S. McDonald is another horseman who contemplates shipping from Belmont Park to Blue Bonnets.
