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GOSSIP OF THE TURF A Windsor dispatch to yesterdays Enquirer says Sixty or more horses that have been racing at Windsor left by the Detroit and Cleveland Line of boats for the Foret Floret City to ¬ night Next Monday a race meeting will open at the half mile track of the Valley Fair Asso Assoc ¬ ciation caption a few miles out of Cleveland It was the original intention of the promoters to race for 100 purses According to the rules of the Western Turf Congress and the Jockey Club the lowest purse that could be offered was 250 A number of bookmakers chipped together and offered to guarantee the purses and on these conditions a number of stables racing at Wind ¬ sor soar havelbeen chameleon shipped to the Ohio city cityThe city The meeting is scheduled to last a week but if the game proves good aud Maud the attendance is up to the mark it may be continued indefinitely Among the Detroiters Detroit who will make books are Billy Howard Long John and others Allen Dale has shipped his stable consisting of Gavotte Debride Deride Rosa Duke Love Letter II and six others Schnitz Schnitzel Edwards has sent on Imposition and Kas Keas Judging from the horses sent on the meeting ought to prove a success successWith success With the imported sires Siddartha Skidder and Wood moss and a choice band of well selected brood ¬ mares Dr A W Me Alester Lester has been for sev se ¬ eral feral years quietly breeding good racehorses on his stockfarm stockcar near Columbia Mo That he has succeeded well such cracking good fillies as Belle of Memphis and Lady Cailahan Callahan fur ¬ nish knish ample evidence At Lakeside before the races Monday he will offer for sale at auction eight colts and two fillies by the sires men ¬ tioned toned They are said to be big well grown yearlings and because of their fine breeding and the speed already shown by their near relatives should be well worth paying good prices for The colt that is more than a half brother to Belle of Memphis is said to be espe ese ¬ cially calmly worthy of keen compptition competition
