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WHITNEYS HORSES DEFEATED Miss Monoa Gains Decision Over Redress in Richmond Handicap. Esplnetta Is Winner of Queen City Plate at Hamilton, With Banderlog Close Second Attendance Improves. HAMILTON, Ont., Aug. 5. The Hamilton Jockey Club furnished the outstanding program of the present session, featured by the Richmond Handicap, a test of six and one-half furlongs, and the Queen City Plate, a gallop of one mile and a sixteenth. A large Saturday gathering saw the races. In the Richmond Handicap Miss Monoa, recently acquired by B. Stuart, showed the way to a shifty band of sprinters over the abbreviated distance, defeating C. V. Whitneys Redress by two lengths. Third was landed by J. E. Smallmans swift sprinter Golden Fate. J. B. Jewells Friend Charley was fourth and in advance of Wise Anne and Higher, which completed the field of six under silks.. Higher stepped, out with a high turn of speed to lead the way, while following at his heels and offering stout contention as the others raced closely aligned, came Friend Charley and Miss Monoa. Higher was displaying much speed as he continued in the van, but on reaching the turn began to shorten strides as Townrow endeavored to keep him at his task. With the others closing in, especially Redress, the field came to the main stretch abreast, although Miss Monoa soon supplanted the front runners. Going smoothly once in command Miss Monoa readily resisted the C. V. Whitney three-year-old to reach the finish mildly urged, while Redress was gradually going away from Golden Fate. The Queen City Plate was the fourth offering and the triumph of Mrs. M. Weiners Espinetta was clean-cut as she registered at the expense of the Hastings Stables Attribute, another three-year-old. At the end, after the pair waged a stout argument all during the closing drive, Espinetta was in command by a neck, while the older C. V. Whitney starter, Banderlog, was three lengths away as he led Bright Beauty and Prince Fox, both of which were separated by a half length. Espinettas effort was her best of the season, and it marked her initial victory in the Dominion. With the biggest attendance of .the meeting on hand, pleasant weather made it ideal for the fourth day of the final summer meeting. Racing was conducted over a track that was slightly on the slow side from the recent heavy rains, but fortunately the racing was of high order with choices making good in several events. Sprinter platers contested the six furlongs of the opening dash, and the sport was ushered in with a surprise when A. J. Halli-wells seven-year-old gelding Black Diamond, under a strong ride by T. Vercher, reached the finish showing the way to Dark Colleen, Chatwater and nine others that made up a limit field. Favored by an inside position at the starting point, the Halliwell gelding, showing much more speed than usual, went along in the first flight and, displacing Mintmagi when reaching the turn, held to his task gamely thereafter and was over the line winner by two lengths. Dark Colleen, with her usual belated rush, managed to land in second place in the last few strides from Chatwater, while the lukewarm favorite, Meridian Queen, was just a half length farther back. Another successful choice scored for the public when Shorelint, from the Thorncliffe Stable, made a show of the other ordinary home-bred performers that raced one mile and a sixteenth in the third race. This saw the winner opposed by seven others as he. dominated the race for the entire journey, and his triumph was achieved by five lengths as he led home N. McLeods Mythical Lore and Floria Zel was a driving third to beat Marie Gaiety and the others. J. Mattioli guided the Thorncliffe veteran and, permitting the fast son of Oil Man-South Shore to take command going to the first turn, rated his mount along and, without encouraging the Thorncliffe performer, was never threatened. Mythical Lore and Floria Zel, however, both furnished a spectacular finish for second place and it was the McLeod performer that earned the decision by a head. Marie Gaiety was just a half length back to lead the others.
