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PLATERS MONOPOLIZE CARD + No Outstanding Feature on Program at Connaught Park. » — Jane Rinehart Scores in Best Race of Day — Cross Word Makes Amends for Recent Poor Showing. OTTAWA, Ont., June S. — What was meant as a feature for Fridays sport at Connaught Park, but which was not titled as the attraction, was the third offering of the day, a dash of five-eighths, for juveniles, for which there were seven starters. The winner turned up in E. A. Raymonds Meridian filly Jane Rinehart, when, after forcing the pace set by Showery for the first half mile, she went into the lead an eighth from the finish and, under stiff pressure from her rider, M. Fishman, was able to withstand the fast closing rush of W. J. Salmons Glacial, to earn the winning share by a neck. Showery lasted to take down the minor award from Green Flag, which raced for Joe Edwards. Stern Chaser, Bolt of Thunder and Emile F. completed the field, but they found the opposition too fast and finished well back in the order named. Another day of ideal weather brought out a good attendance to Connaught Park for the third day of the meeting and an interesting program was offered those that journeyed to the Aylmer course. There was no outstanding feature listed and each contest decided during the afternoon carried the claiming clause. Charles Ferraro supplied the winner of the five and one-half furlongs dash that opened the sport for the afternoon, when Farceur registered over the rather good band that sported silks when, in a drive, he took the lead inside the final eighth and. displacing Column, went on to lead The Code across the winning mark by a length, while the latter secured second honors in the last few strides to beat the tiring pacemaker. Column, a half-length for the place portion of the purse. Conde, one of the well-backed contestants, after being outrun from the start, reached fourth place to lead the others in the field of twelve. RANK OUTSIDER FIRST. Blue Rose, a rank outsider for the five and a half furlongs of the second race, a test that was given over to the cheaper caliber of sprinters, earned the decision for the major share of the purse in a terrific drive. After being penned in on the rail when Silas sent her through on the inside of the leaders at the eighth post and forcing her way through a narrow opening, she continued to race well and. in the last stride, dropped her nose to the fore to take the measure of Blue-mont, another that received but scant support, while Magnus, one that raced grouped in the field, was third to lead Mountaineer and the nine others that made the issue, for which Patsy McDonald was an odds-on choice. The latter performed so dismally that she was only capable of leading one of the dozen at the end and her showing was the worst setback encountered by the players since the meeting started. Magnus was the cause of much crowding against the first two. Cross Word, racing for W. A. McKinney, after a poor effort on the opening day. showed to better advantage over a firmer j track, when she accounted for the mile and | seventy yards fifth race, to emerge victorious by a scant head over M. C. Cunninghams-Sir Barley, while J. A. Parsons furnished the third horse in Teiurid? when in a drive he custayed John William II. for the minor award. Sir Barley went out to set the pace in this particular race and. after reaching the back stretch, opened up a winning lead of four lengths. CrooS Word raced in second place most of the way and, when called on for the final drive, wore the Cunningham starters margin down gradually and in the final twenty yards drew away slowly to earn the verdict. Teluride was beaten five lengths for second place with the others, save John William II., strung out. Support, after a good effort recently, turned in a winning performance for C. F. Clark in the running of the sixth race, in which he was installed the choice for the mile and seventy yards race and, after leading all the way, crossed the winning mark two lengths in advance of Impossible, a rank outsider, while old Tippity Witchet earned the third share of the purse from the fast-finishing Beaverwood. A
