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ANOTHER FOR LEONARD B. » Bastone Racer Has Unbeaten Record on Canadian Tracks. ♦ Scorns !n $: ,000 Added It. J. Mackenzie Memorial Handicap at Tiiorncliffe Part — Overflow Crowd. TORONTO, Ont. June 2.— A tremendous gathering turned out at Tiiorncliffe Park this afternoon. It was a record crowd for the track. Every available space In the grandstand was packed and the overflow made themselves as comfortable as possible on the spacious lawns or any other place that they could find standing room. Pleasant weather and a splendid program proved a magnet the racegoers could not resist. There were five distance races and two sprints, both of which were over three-quarters, which meant that the starts were made out of the standing stalls. The big attraction of the afternoon was the 55.000 added It. J. Mackenzie Memorial Handicap, a dash of a mile and a sixteenth, a race provided as an annual feature at the" spring meetings at Thorncliffe. No better band of borsea ever went to the post in this stake than those that faced the barrier this afternoon. Ten of the fifteen entered sported silks, Pygmalion, J. Fred A., Drawing Board, Contemplate and Patricia J. being withdrawn. Frank Bastone furnished the winner In his consistent racer Leonard B. Justa Farm Stables Bucky Harris was second and F. B. Smiths Prickly Heat third, with C. L. [Whitings Dignus fourth. Starter Cassidy sent the field away to a moving start immediately after they lined lip at the barrier. It was a splendid start, the field leaving the post ahgned. Leonard B. was quickest to bgin, but in the run to the turn Little sent Dignus to the front and Schaefer took Leonard B. back, permitting the mare to set the pr.ee. Dignus drew away Into a two lengths lead on the back stretch, With Leonard B. in second place and under Slight restraint. VXDER MILT DRIVE. Passing the half mile post. Schaefer released Leonard B. from restraint and the colt moved up with a good burst of speed, going to the outside of the pacemaker. Straightened out in the home stretch, Leonard B. drew away into a three lengths lead, but at the end he tired and under a mild drive lasted long enough to win by a length. A length and a half separated the s:cond a«d third horses and three lengths further back followed Dignus. The stake was worth ,100 to the winner. The handsome silver trophy which went to the owner of the winner was presented to Frank Bastone by Mr. Scott Griffin, the president of the Thorncliffe Racing Association. Since his arrival from New York, Leonard B. has started three times in Canada, once at Woodbine and twice at Thorncliffe, and on all occasions he has been returned a winner. There was enough contention in the first race to satisfy the most exacting. The finish of the race found the first four horses fighting it out heads and noses apart. The winner was Dannie, which came from behind in the run through the home stretch to close with a rush that landed him in front of Gymkhana in the very last rtride. It was only a nose that separated the first two, and then followed Laddie Buck, beaten a head for second place, and another head away came Bellarion. Another cIo?e finish came with the running of the second race, the Piccadilly Purse, a dash of one mile for Canadian-bred horses, when the Seagram Stables Ferry of Fate beat Ichitaro by a neek. The result might have been different had Carlisle made a better judged ride on Ichitaro. In the early running Carlisle permitted Ichitaro to drop out of it at the half-mile post, and was ten lengths back of Ferry of Fate. The latter was out in front racing head and head with Bloomtip. Hounding the far turn, McGinnis sent Ferry of Fate to the front and opened up a six lengths lead. Carlisle then made his move, and, when he did, he sent Ichitaro up with a rush, closing much ground in an eighth of a mile, and, coming into the home stretch, was on almost even terms with the leader. Ichitaros effort told wdien it came to a drive and he tired, with the result that he was beaten by a neck in r. race that he should have won. Bloomtip was a tiring third. Miss Prim scored a runaway victory in the third race, a dash of a mile and an eighth, when she beat the favorite. King Carter, by a length. McGinnis had the mount on Mis-Prim and it was the second winner he rode during the afternoon. In the run around the first turn Miss Prim raced to the front and, in th • early stages, raced Ed Pendleton into submission. When the latter quit McGinnis took Miss Prim in hand and, at the end, when the pinch cam?, the mare had a bit in reserve to stall off King Carters challenge.
