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MR. GAIETY MAKES AMENDS ♦ Wins Caledonian Handicap at Thorncliffe in a Canter. » Hoity Toity Sent to Post with Blindfold and Stewards Bar Further Entry-Care Free Wins. ♦ TORONTO, Ont., May 30. — The running of the Caledonian Handicap at Thorncliffe Park this afternoon gave Mrs. E. Glasscoa five-year-old gelding Mr. Gaiety an opportunity of redeeming himself for his defeat at Woodbine when he came back to win in easy fashion. Carrying top weight and ridden by C. Phillips, Mr. Gaiety won in easy fashion when he galloped home with a lead of three lengths. His victory was all the more impressive in that he was ridden with none too good judgment by Phillips. In the early running Mr. Gaiety was permitted to drop back to last place but one, and at the half-mile post was eight lengths back of the leaders. He was under restraint and when Phillips let go his hold, Mr. Gaiety went past the others as though they were tied. In the stretch he easily disposed of Attack to win much in reserve. Attack managed to stagger in a nose in front of Trout-let. Attack may have done better had she been ridden in different fashion. Mooney was quite anxious to get to the front and the first half-mile Attack raced head and head with the speedy Mineralogist. The result was that when Mr. Gaiety challenged in the final stages Attack had nothing left and she was under a desperate drive at the end to save second place. The stewards issued a ruling during the afternoon barring the further entry of the plater Hoity Toity. It was without their knowledge that the blindfold device was used on the mare, but at all events she is a bad post actor and not only a menace to the other horses but riders as well. CANADIAN-BRED HORSES. A field of twelve went to the post in the first race, the conditions of which called for three-year-olds and over foaled in Canada, and the J. C. Fletcher stable furnished the winner in Dushka, which beat the Riverdale stables Forecast II. by five lengths. Rose Lady, quickest to begin, led in the run down the back stretch but, at the half-mile post, Forecast II. caught and passed her. The latter showed in front until straightened out for the final run, where Dushka assumed command and, in the stretch, drew away from her opponents. At the end she was in hand. Rose Lady, tiring badly under punishment, just lasted long enough to beat Humberside by a head for third place. Care Free, the twelve-year-old son of Colin, showed that he still has to be reckoned with when properly placed, as he scored a runaway victory over some good platers that went to the post in the second race. This was his first winning race of the season. In his two previous starts he finished second and third. In todays running McGinnis permitted him to race right along from the rise of the barrier and, before they had gone an eighth, he shook off Rock Thorn and opened up a lead of one length. He increased his advantage rounding the far turn until he was five lengths in front. In the final eighth the old racer began to tire and, at the finish, McGinnis was forced to ride him out to beat Malcolm by a length. The latter was three lengths in front of Circus Rider, which beat Rock Thorn a head for third place. Storm King was eased up at the end, finishing last of his field. Some sort of a new contraption was used on Hoity Toity, the odds-on favorite for the third race. It looked like a bandage tied to a string under blinkers, the purpose of which was to blind the mare while at the post. It is presumed that the rider was to pull the string when the break came and this released the bandage and permitted the mare to see. At all events, whatever it was, it ruined whatever chance Hoity Toity may have had. When starter Cassidy released the barrier, it looked like it would be a splendid start, but when Hoity Toitys rider pulled the string to release the covering over her eyes, she propped and pulled up. A couple of the others began slowly. Hobcaw, quick to get in action, went to the front and opened up a lead on the others. Mooney kept him going all the way and in the stretch he had enough left to stall off Mac Maxims challenge to beat the Bedwell horse by a length. Reighburn was third, four lengths further back. OMAREEN GOOD AS LEFT. When the barrier was released for the fifth race, Omareen reared up and was as good as left at the post. Stevens appeared to have an attack of stage fright and in the early running evidently did not take his chances seriously and Omareen galloped along with the tail-enders. At the end he was closing with a belated rush, finishing fourth, beaten off about three lengths. The winner turned up in Mulatto. W. Curran rode and he hustled his mount to the front in the run to the first turn and for the remainder of the race never relinquished the lead. At the end Mulatto was forced to stand a hard drive to outstay Snelboc, which he beat by a head. Laftar was third, beaten three-quarters of a length for second place. Kinkajou, a recent arrival from New York, ridden by a green apprentice named Sullovey, was winner of the sixth race when he beat a band of platers over the one mile and an eighth course. There was some doubt as to Sulloveys ability, but the lad rode a pretty heady race. In the early stages he took Kinkajou in hand and permitted Real Artist and Plain Dealer to go to the front and set the pace. The only mistake that Sullovey made was in running into a blind switch at the turn out of the back stretch. He waited, however, until he found an opening at the head Of the home stretch, which he was quick to take advantage of and, going to the front with a rush, Kinkajou drew away to win by two lengths and a half from Real Artist. which beat Chairman a length for second place.
