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GIVES WAR SAINT A SCARE Deedie Makes Game Finish, hut I Up a Little Too Late. Best Race of Closing Day -at Kenilworth Park Provides Excitement Dome Is Blocked at the Start. WINDSOR, Ont., Aug. 20. The best field of the closing day program at Kenilworth went to the post in the three-quarters mile of the fourth. This test engaged nine good ones from the plater ranks. The finish was one of the most thrilling of the season when War Saint, the consistent son of St. James and War Goddess, after opening up an apparently safe advantage, just held on long enough to defeat J. E. Smallmans Deedie. The show position went to S. S. Friedleins Quorum, which gained his part of the purse by the scantiest of margins from Broadway Lights. Deedie, alert at the post, was first to show in front but lacked speed to hold her position and dropped back. Maier was hustling War Saint along, and he forged to the front before a quarter mile had been covered. Rollin In, which had been racing forwardly, found the pace too rapid and dropped back. War Saint increased his lead until he had opened up daylight on his nearest pursuer. It appeared to be just a matter of how far his rider cared to win when Deedie began her charge. Dougherty steered the Smallman mare through his field and succeeded in getting going in her best style when straightened out for the run to the finish. War Saint was holding to his lead in determined style in that closing drive and the leading pair swept past the finishing line so closely aligned that the official placing had to be displayed to determine the result. The leading pair were a length clear of Quorum, and it was just as bitter a battle for the minor award when the latter earned that part of the award by a nose from Broadway Lights. The largest throng that has visited Kenilworth this season was on hand getaway day to bid farewell to the thoroughbreds at this track. It was an ideal summer day and the track was lightning fast. There was a long post delay in the opening race that brought out the limit number of platers under claiming conditions. This saw the victory of Fort Worth, which received a good ride from apprentice H. Dabson. Fort Worth was kept under steady restraint while racing on the inside and in close pursuit of the leader. Finger Tips and Little Gyp were setting the pace, while Dabson was biding his time on the inside with Fort Worth. As the leaders swung wide on the turn for home, Dabson rushed Fort Worth through on the inside and went to the front before the sixteenth post had been reached and drew away with every stride thereafter and was a length and a half to the good at the end. Finger Tips, tiring slightly, barely saved second from Little Gyp. A small but evenly matched field of Cana-dian-breds started in the second race on the program. The Hastings Stable supplied the winner in Star Crest, sporting silks for the first time this season in Windsor. His victory was only achieved in a thrilling finish when he got up in the last seventy yards to defeat Shorelint, from the Thorncliffe Stable, and the early pacemaker, Easter Dandy, earned third place. Easter Dandy, after beginning tardily, was rushed into a good lead while Star Crest and Shorelint were his closest rivals. As the stretch was reached Easter Dandy began shortening strides and both Shorelint and the winner moved up. Star Crest, on the inside, forged to the front and in a ding-dong battle managed to gain a half length lead over the Thorncliffe Stable starter while Easter Dandy was only a head further back. An unfortunate incident occurred at the start of the juvenile test of the afternoon when Saint Louis wheeled directly in front of the favorite, Dome, which blocked him,, and also ruined whatever chance that Poly-phote may have had. Joe Macaw, fortunate in leaving in his best stride, went to the front in the opening quarter, never to be headed, and reached the finish line better than two lengths in advance of Grimace. The latter came fast after leaving the back stretch and enjoyed a wide margin over Lacquer for the place part of the award. Lacquer was away in motion and held on determinedly in the final test. The winner proved one of the biggest upsets of the meeting when a ticket on hia chances rewarded his backers with 0.90.
