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CONDITIONS FAVOR CRINOLINE Filly Carries Top Weight to Victory in Headliner at Thorncliff e Park Blanket Trophy. TORONTO. Ont., June 5. Conceding much weight to three older performers and one other of her own age, and well ridden by jockey H. Lindberg, Crinoline, three-year-old daughter of Cherokee and Pongee scored her first Canadian victory and her first success since her winter campaign in Florida when she carried the silks of J. E. Smallman to a hard earned victory in the Sweet Caporal Purse. The race headed the program today at Thorncliffe Park. Running the distance in 1:4andVS and showing her best courage, the chestnut three-year-old earned her latest success by the shortest possible margin when she led Winged Flight, from the Erindale Stable, by inches at the end, while Shady Well, banner bearer of the E. F. Seagram stable, made things more exciting when she" finished lapped on the pair to easily hold sway over" Miss C. Badames Chrysmute and Lassies Mary, the only others under silks. The score of the winner marked a double for H. Lind-. berg, who triumphed early in the afternoon astride Sam Worthy. Trainer G. Alexandra, acting for his employer, accepted the blanket awarded by the Imperial Tobacco Company, who sponsored several of the carded events. In the main race a short delay was occa-; : sioned before Lassies Mary could be brought into line, and the start was a good one, with Crinoline first to leave and able to take the lead in the run to the first turn. Chrysmute was in pursuit of the winner, with Shady Well in third place and Winged Flight heading Lassies Mary. Through the stretch no change in this order occurred, and the field, was still well bunched going to the final turn, although Lassies. Mary was beginning to find her task too much. Coming into the stretch the race resulted in a spirited drive 1 and there was little to choose between the leaders. It was here that Shady Well found her way into command. The Seagram mare was unable to hold her place and in the final sixteenth succumbed, , when Crinoline came again to drop her nose i down right on the line to prevail by a nose ! over the fast-moving; Winged Flight,
