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CHEAPER HORSES COMPETE Toronto Fans Have Difficulty Locating Winners on Mondays Card at Long Branch Track. TORONTO, Ont., June 15. With the better class performers confined to the shelter of their barns after being engaged in competition on Saturday, a program .embracing seven events, all of which were under claiming conditions and made up from platers recruited from the cheaper class, was the entertainment furnished by the Long Branch Jockey Club for the fifth day of the spring meeting at the York County plant on Monday. With no attraction of special interest down for decision, the assemblage was above the average for a week-day, although they suffered repeated reverses in the selection of the various winners, the majority outsiders. The nearest to a favorite to triumph in the first four races was Cardamon, which turned back a limit band of sprinters in the third race, while the outstanding disappointments of the day were the failures of W. J. Watermans Gay Sympathy and Black Cohort, short-priced choices in their respective engagements. The disappointment of Gay Sympathy came in the fifth, for horses bred in the Dominion of Canada, and which attracted an indifferent lot. The best the Waterman filly could accomplish was to finish fifth in the field of nine engaged, and it was the first time she finished unplaced since beginning her local campaign. The winner turned up in Acajou, from the F. H. Schelke stable, when she came from behind to lead Mrs. G. Hogarths Roche DOr to the end by a narrow margin, with Mrs. H. L. Munsons Dainty Rose third, before J. C- Fletchers Momiji. F. Vallee rode the winner, and his strong finish enabled the Schelke six-year-old mare to prevail by a neck at the end of the contest, while Roche DOr was a length before Dainty Rose, and Momiji a like distance in advance of the ruling favorite.
