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INAUGURAL AT DUFFERIN PjARK Torontos Popular Half -Mile Track Entertains Overflow Crowd at Opening Mindreader Wins. TORONTO, Ont., June 20 Mindreader, five-year-old son of St. James and Liseuse, which has been a useful racing tool for the J. H. Black stable for the last couple of seasons and a winner of an overnight race in one of three starts this season, showed his best brand of speed to account for the Little Saratoga Purse, a gallop of one mile and a sixteenth that topped the inaugural program of the Metropolitan Racing Association before a tremendous gathering at Dufferin Park today. Ridden by H. Osborne and opposed by seven other seasoned distance performers, the five-year-old gelding scored in a drive leading Semester, from the G. H. Ellis barn, with third falling to W. Stevens Zangwill, when he easily took the measure of Sass and the four others that met. Listed in fourth position on the program that was confined mostly to long distance racing, one race being at a mile and six and one-half furlongs, the eight under colors in the feature were dispatched without delay, and it saw Semester and Sass stepping out abreast of each other to show the way. These two effected a fast pace, while .Miss Gormley and Mindreader led the pursuit and for the, first six. furlongs there was little to choose between them. With six lurlongs run in 1:17, the pace began to takeiits toll on the leaders and in another furlong they were being crowded by Mindreader when Osborne began working seriously on the J. H. Black performer. Reaching the stretch, Sass had fallen prey to the pace, and Semester was also finding difficulty in maintaining his leading position as Mindreader began to show his best speed. With a furlong to go, Mindreader readily supplanted the Ellis starter and once in command slowly increased his lead until he was across the line winner by two lengths. Zangwill finished strongly after trailing along in the second flight for most of the trip and was a length and one-half back of the runner-up and well in advance of the others. Annimessic, from which much was expected, raced far below recent form and cut little figure in the running.
