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FOREMAN COLORS IN FRONT « Remedy Triumphs After Furious Drive With Bucky Harris. » Jockey Harvey Ouiiidrs Wyatt in Spectacular Finish — Flowerful Takes Sixth Race — NikI in Driving Finish. HAMILTON", Ont., June 28.— G. W. Foremans Remedy triumphed in one of the bitterest-fought duels to be witnessed during the present meeting at Hamilton when he earned the main share of the purse in the running of the Advance Handicap, the best race on todays program. In a furious drive with the Justa Farm Stables Bucky Harris and, with credit largely due to jockey W. Harvey, the good son of Apothecary — Hero-phila just managed to hold to his task long enough to earn the verdict. Bucky Harris was four lengths clear of Patricia J., which races for Senator P. F. Joyce, which took third place, and then followed Aucilla, Dignus and Helenita, in the order named, to complete one of the best fields of sprinters that have sported silks at the current meeting. Dignus was the fancied one for the main offering and, as usual, she dashed into the lead with the rise of the banter to set a fast pace. Of the others Dignus was possessed of the most speed and he was the one to offer the winner the most argument in the early stages, although tho closest he could get in the first three-eighths was within three lengths of the Whiting filly. However, at the turn into the main stretch Dignus began tiring and Remedy, equal to the occasion, took the lead and, under Harveys good finish, in which he outrode Wyatt, he was just able to stick it out long enough. Bucky Harris was considered best as the race was run, but Wyatt was of little help when it came to a finish, while the others were unable to threaten the leaders with the exception of Dignus. The winner covered the route in the good time of 1:13%, which was the best thus far recorded during the meeting. With clear and summerlike weather prevailing, another good crowd witnessed the sport at Hamilton for the fourth day of the meeting and the chief attractions were the fourth and fifth races, both of which were sprint affairs in which the better grade horses vied for honors. Vitalize proved a disappointment in the five-eighths of the initial race, for which she was confidently backed, when, after leading for the greater part of tho journey, she tired during the final stages, with the result that she succumbed to the onrush of H. Neus-teters Catlc-ttsburg and in a drive the latter finished just a half length in the van of the favorite, while Lucky Tide, after a rough race, drove into third place to take the measure of Sun Meta and the five others that started. Tulasco was the one to offer the winner serious contention in the first half mile of the journey while the winner was leading the others. Through the final stages Ralls, in a desperate effort, went to the whip on Vitalize, but his efforts were in vain, as Catlettsburg proved the gamer, while Lucky Tide, after getting clear, finished with a rush that found him gaining steadily and, with clear racing room he would probably have reversed the verdict. A tight fit for premier honors developed in the mile and a sixteenth second race, which was for the cheaper class of platers, when three of the seven contenders finished so closely aligned at the end that the official placing was necessary in deciding the result. The verdict in this particular race went to J. Wakemans Niki, when she just managed to drop h"r nose down at the critical moment to get the decision from Paul Ciceris Real Artist, and a nose further back was Helen Carter, leading Lang Syne and the others. Tahoma was the one that absorbed the most support but, after racing withing striking distance of tho leaders for seven-eighths, she dropped back.
