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SECOND DAY IN SUCCESSION ♦ Riverside Stable Again Carries Off Feature at Connaught. ♦ Attack Victor In Chateau Lanrier Purse — King Charles Scores His Second Success of the Meeting. 1 OTTAWA. Ont., June 11. — For the second day in succession the Riverdale Stable furnished the winner of the feature contest at Connaught Park, when Attack, the good daughter of Atwell — Gallant Foe, sporting the silks of the Canadian owned establishment, made a show of her opponents in the mile and seventy yards of the Chateau Laurier Parse. In addition to earning the big share of the purse. Attack lowered the track mark for the route when she covered the distance in 1 :43 flat. Second to the winner and beaten a margin of eight lengths came Thestylis, racing for H. R. A. West, while Troutlet. another Canadian-bred starter, landed in third place to take the measure of Noine and three others that started. Attack, following back of the pace established by Thestylis, moved up to the latter with excellent speed when called on by Mac-Iver and, taking command before the field entered into the straightaway, drew out into a rapidly increasing lead and she appeared to have much in reserve in her record-breaking performance. Thestylis, under strong urging, managed to saved second place award by two lengths, while Troutlet was a length before Noine. Weather conditions were again ideal for the sport at the Aylmer course and a surprisingly large crowd attended. FIRST FOR BROWN THISTLE. Brown Thistle, from the Highland Stable, earned the first purse at the meeting for that establishment when he received a close decision from Campfire Maid in the first race of the afternoon, over five-eighths, for juveniles, that found a field of six striving for honors. Skirt raced into third place and Washington Rose led the others that started. Campfire Maid was in command from the start, but Kurtsingers overconfidence proved the downfall of the Wilson starter, as he appeared to take things easy after drawing clear at the stretch turn, and Dougherty, on the winner, outrode him when it came to the final drive. A. Seguin furnished the winner of the second race, and, incidentally, the winner caused a big surprise when he defeated the public choice, Johnny Agee, which earned second place just a head before Saratoga Maje. Lenny, the winner, a sadly neglected factor among the field of twelve, raced in second place while following the pace of Saratoga Maje. displaced the latter entering the stretch and in a drive passed the winning line a length to the good. Hobcaw, one that was well backed, was on his usual bad behavior, and being away with the tail-enders, was not persevered with when his task looked hopeless. BY SMALL MARGIN. Perriehon, which has beer, performing consistently since the meeting started, scored his first success after many attempts when he measutvd strides in game fashion with a rather shifty band of sprinters that came together in the third race, staged over the three-quarters route. In a sinew straining drive he was able to earn brackets in which his margin was just a nose over Mrs. O. F. Burkarts Balai dOr, while Reddy Fox landed third, a scant neck in advance of the favorite, Dunkirk. T. Sullivans King Charles raced to his second consecutive score at the present meeting when he mastered an ordinary band that opposed him in the mile and one-sixteenth of the fourth race, for which he was the choice ; incidentally, the first victory of the afternoon for form followers. In nearest pursuit of the winner at the end of the gallop came Vernon to get a close decision over Shup for the place award. Afton led the others in the field of nine. Golden Arrow, making his initial appearance under colors for P. L. Ciceri, made good at the first asking for his i ew owner when he accounted for the sixth race, for which he carried the bulk of support. In a driving finish he won just three-quarters of a length to the fore of Campanella, from the Middle-burg Stable, while third fell to Mrs. J. Zoellers Saints Fancy, A
