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TRIPLE FOR SEAGRAM STABLE • Waterloo Establishment Enjoys Great Day at Hamilton. ♦ Visionary Hour, Circulet and Hobnob Triumph, While Solace Misses by Inches in Main Race of Afternoon. 1 HAMILTON, Ont, June 24.— The Seagram Stable, for years Canadas largest money winning establishment, came into its own with the opening of the Hamilton Jockey Club summer meeting today, when no less than three members of that outfit were winners of their respective races on the introductory program. Incidentally, each of the triumphs took place in a feature, and the victories in two instances were decided through the official placing. Visionary Hour, a first-time starter, inaugurated the triple by accounting for the juvenile race that was run as the opening event. Circulet followed by earning a close decision over the home-breds that opposed him in the Mount Hope Purse, and Hobnob finished by winning the Mountain Valley Plate. A fourth victory was averted when Omareen took the major honors in the Salisbury Purse. Jockey E. Legerc played a prominent role in the Seagram triple. The Salisbury Purse brought out the best grade performers at the course, and was run as the fifth, with a field a field of six starting. Omareen, racing for C. N. Mooney. and well ridden by F. Dainty, was able to lead for the entire journey, but it was only ■ in a drive that he outstayed Solace, the of the Hamilton Jockey Clubs first sum-by a length. Third fell to Montanaro, from the H. C. Hatch stable, and the good homebred, Mr. Gaiety, showed a return to his good form when he led home Footmark and Wrackell. Ideal conditions prevailed for the opening hope of the Seagram Stable, to be winner mer meeting, and throughout the course of the afternoon the sport and entertainment was provided from among the best racers quartered on the grounds. Jockey E. Legere made an auspicious beginning for his contract employers, the Seagram Stable, when he rode Visionary Hour, a first-time starter, to a hard earned triumph in the juvenile purse, which was the introductory race. Nine others opposed the swift running son of Lucky Hour — Dream Girl II., and it was Rose Twig, bearing the silks of the Elmtree Stable, that finished within a length of the Seagram colt, while Centermrrch lasted to save third in a tight fit with Sun Tweed. Twelve platers of ordinary grade met at six and one-half furlongs, the second offering, and this resulted in a spectacular finish in which Mrs. M. Baldwins Nae Breeks, under the capable handling of jockey F. Mann, was returned victorious. Second was accounted for by F. Pyotts Federal Reserve, and F. Sansones Yeggman landed third when he took a close decision over Florida Gold. Homebreds of the better class furnished the entertainment in the third race, the Mount Hope Purse. This saw nine starters and the finish brought about another triumph for the Seagram Stable when Circulet led throughout to get the judges verdict by the closest of margins over R. W. R. Cowies Kingsway. Starcrest saved third for the Hastings Stable. Circulet, racing into command at the start, was closely pressed by Kingsway and Star-crest, while the others, with the exception of Shorelint, which was away slowly, were in rather close attendance. Circulet was well ridden and as Legere went to a drive in the final furlong the Seagram colt responded and in a bitterly fought finish just managed to last long enough. There were many in the crowd that disagreed with the placing and a wild scene was enacted for a brief period and it was not until after the official placing that calm was restored. The Seagram Stable brought their suc-*" cesses to three for the afternoon when in a driving finish Hobnob scored over a good band of youngsters in the Mountain Valley Plate. This race was run as the fourth, and it was J. Whyte-Kilmer starters that divided second and third honors. Judge Bartlett, racing for F. H. Schelke, proved to be the first successful choice of the day to make good for form followers, when he led for every stride of the mile and seventy yards of the sixth race to capture the honors in rather easy fashion. At the end the Schelke starter retained a four-length margin over Eager Play, from the Seagram Stable, and Sam Pass, from the H. C. Hatch Stable, well entrenched in third place, as he showed the way to the five remaining entrants. . — — — — — A
