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YOUNG KITTY SCORES AGAIN « Brilliant Seagram Filly Outstays Mr. Gaiety by a Nose. • Act omits for Taluable William Hendrle Memorial Handicap, Closing Pay Feature at "Woodbine Park. . TORONTO. Out., May 25.— Young Kitty, the four-year-old filly by Old Koenig which races for tlie Seagram Stable, added another victory to her long list of winning efforts when she beat Mr. Gaiety in the running of the William Hendrie Memorial Handicap at Woodbine Park this afternoon. This race was decided over one mile and called for three-year-olds and over bred in Canada. It was the feature race of the closing days program at Woodbine. It carried a purse of ,000 added and was run as the fifth race. A field of seven went to the post and Young Kitty was a 3 to 10 favorite. She carried 121 pounds and conceded lumps of weight to everything in the race. J. Maiben bad the mount and he put up one of his famous finishes. Beginning rapidly. Young Kitty outran her opponents to the turn and on the back stretch Maiben took her in hand and rated her in front. At the head of the stretch Mr. Gaie*y moved up with a rush and got on even terms with Young Kitty at the eighth post. Both jockeys were driving in desperate fashion and both horses were hanging on with great courage. They came to the winning mark almost aligned, and it was a mighty tight finish between the pair, one of the sort that takes the official placing to decide the winner. Eight lengths back came Attack, which beat Troutlet by a head for third place. The race had a net value to the winner of J3.930. In her maiden effort as a two-year-old Young Kitty was beaten by Dushka and in all of her other nine races she won. Five of her victories were as a two-year-old. She started but twice last year and won, after which she was taken sick and retired for the season. Additional attractions were the Queens Hotel Cup and the Minto Steeplechase, and both races furnished interesting contests. TWO FOB HARRY GIDDINGS. Harry Giddings saddled a couple of winners during the afternoon when he sent Guest to the post for H. C. Hatch in the Patricia Plate, and R. W. Cowies Kingsway in the running of the Alexandra Plate. Both horses were ridden by Townrow. A stirring finish came with the running of the first race, a dash of a mile and a sixteenth, under claiming conditions, when Guest, Aversion and Sucky fought it out all through the home stretch to finish in the order named, nose and heads apart. Aversion made all of the pace, closely pursued by Sucky. Guest was on the inside next to the rail in close quarters, and Townrow was unable to get through. Entering the home stretch, where the leaders bore out a bit, Townrow found an opening and was quick to take advantage of il. He sent Guest through, but Aversion still had a bit in reserve, and Sucky also was hanging on gamely. It was a desperate drive between these three on the last eighth, and at the end Guest proved the gamest and was up in the final strides to win by the shortest of margins. The running of the Minto Steeplechase furnished an interesting contest, and the W. J. Salmon Stables Huffy was the winner. Ridden with good judgment by Albright, Huffy followed the pacemakers until going to the last jump but one, when he moved up with a bold challenge and at the end out-gamed Fathallah to win by half a lengtn. Winoya was third, six lengths back, and Primed was fourth. Special Account started out with his usual brilliant speed and raced into a long lead the first quarter. At the third jump he made a bad landing and unseated his rider. Fathallah then went to the front and led until the last jump, where Huffy caught and passed him. ANOTHER FOR PANUCO. Panuco came back with another winning effort when he scored a runaway victory in the running of the Queens Hotel Cup, a handicap over one mile and seventy yards, for which he went to the post favorite. There ■were six starters in the Queens Hotel Cup, Patricia J., Wandering Minstrel, Gaffsman and Campanini being withdrawn. McCoy had the mount on Panuco and when the start came he assumed the lead before they had gone a dozen strides, and in the run down the back stretch opened up a five-lengths lead on his opponents, which he increased to Bix on the far turn. Mann began to drive William T. at the three-eighths post and the latter made a determined effort to get to the pacemakers in the stretch. In the last sixteenth he tired and Maiben, bringing the Seagram gelding, Beau of the West, from behind with one of his rushes, got up in time to get second place by a nose. Panuco had a margin of a length and a half at the end. Kingsway, the chestnut gelding which races for 1". W. Cowie, showed that his race the other day, when he beat Free Thinker, was no fluke, when he came back to score over the Seagram Btablea Pandorus in the Alexandra Plate. Kingsway set all of the pace and in a driving finish outlasted Pandorus to win by half a length. Kingsway began fast and quickly assuming command, led throughout. In the early stages he stalled off determined opposition from Star Crest and then from Fair Portune and in the stretch fought it out with Pandorus. The latter began in a tanjrle and after gaining much ground, tired when he got to the leader. Another driving finish came with the sixth race when Fair Anita came from behind in the stretch to get up in the final stride and beat Rundale by a neck. General Bullan! started out like a winner, taking the lead directly after the start. General Bullard drew away in the run to the half mile post and on the far turn increased his advantage until he had a lead rf three lengths. He led until the sixteenth post and when he quit he simply collapsed. Fair Anita raced in third place for the first half mile and entering the stretch was taken to the outside of the leaders. , ; | , ,
