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ATTRIBUTE RETURNS TO FORM Wins by Length Prom Wrigley Field on Opening Day at Hamilton. Oracle Dries Out Rapidly After Tuesdays Bain, but Favorites Meet With Scant Success Rapscallion Beaten. HAMILTON, Ont., Aug. 2. The Hamilton Jockey Club ushered in the final lap of racing in Ontario today with a card that was mostly given over to the cheaper grade of racers. No special offering was scheduled and the nearest approach to a feature was the mile and one-sixteenth fifth race, which attracted a half dozen of the higher-priced distance performers. Six met in this and the victor came from unexpected quarters when Attribute suddenly recovered his best form and captured major honors. Following the winner to the end of the test and defeated by a length, came Wrigley Field, from the J. H. Black barn, and third was accounted for by C. V. Whitneys Banderlog which just succeeded in downing Bushman for that part of the purse, leading Espinetta and Southard. Attribute was first away, after a delay at the barrier, and he went along closely aligned with Wrigley Field when Riley sent the Black performer out to lead the way. Charging resolutely to displace the front-going son of Sand Mole, Attribute took command as the main stretch was reached and was well ridden to the finish by J. Paradise. Wrigley Field, after being displaced, readily held to second position, earning that part of the purse by a half length. Banderlog outlasted Bushman. While the card prepared for the introduction of the second meeting was not of high quality, a crowd of excellent size turned out to welcome the thoroughbreds back to this sector. The racing was over a fast course that had dried out rapidly after the heavy rain of Tuesday. Outsiders accounted for practically every event. The Niagara Purse, an allowance affair for three-year-olds, at six and one-half furlongs and furnished as the fourth race, was the number of secondary importance and in thia the public received their worst setback when they installed C. V. Whitneys Rapscallion a pronounced choice, only to see him fail, when the best he could accomplish was to finish in third place. The winner came from the J. Hoskins stable, when Dark Colleen, coming from last place, earned major honors in a thrilling drive to score over Siss from the H. C. Hatch stable, while the choice, Rapscallion, was an easy third before J. Salems Aleeta and the others. There was an excuse for the failure of Rapscallion, and it came about when the son of Pennant Traffic, while moving up to Siss, tho early pacemaker, ran out badly on the turn for home and, with the loss of considerable ground, was unable to finish I better than third. The third was another sprint over the six and one-half furlongs route and it brought out a field of ten that came out of a split of the opening event of the day. The winner for this turned up in Mrs. W. A. Lears recently acquired Poets Dream when he took the measure of Federal Reserve, Dark War and the seven others that started. The winner, an outsider, was the third to score in as many races and his victory resulted in handy fashion when he reached the finish leading the Four Ls Stable representative by two lengths, while Dark War took third a length before W. H. Wrights Incessant. The favored Fall Apple finished in seventh position. Poets Dream was right at the heels of Don Vern, Federal Reserve and Incessant as they raced closely lapped vieing for the leadership and it took little effortlo come around the pair when moving to the front on the stretch turn. With the early pacemaker well spent, Federal Reserve held on tenaciously to save second by a head, while Dark War outstayed the tiring Incessant for the short end of the prize. Al Newman vanned Royal Gold and More By from Latonia and L. R. Hazell arrived from Beulah Park with Woody Simon and Pauly. The C. A. Marone performers that were engaged in racing at the recent meeting at Niagara Falls were unloaded in good condition at Hamilton. Lloyd Gentry, trainer of the combined H. C. Hatch and J. C. Milan stables, shipped nineteen racers from Kenilworth Park. Jockey G. Riley and E. McLaughlin accompanied the shipment, which arrived without mishap. Projectile, recently acquired by H. C. Hatch from Adolphe Pons, was left at Kenilworth Park by trainer L. Gentry along with three others of that stable to be freshened up.
