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READY AT DETROIT. ] Detroiters are looking forward to a racing j ;season .of more than, ordinary interest, and 1 •there is good reason to think that the meeting - which "begins at Grosse Point track to- -• /morrow will be generously patronized. Con-,*cernlrig - its prospects the Detroit News of f Friday says: j [ ] j 1 - -• - f "Things are booming at the Grosse Point 1 track these days and arrivals of big strings 1 are of daily occurrence, the opening of the meeting of the Detroit Jockey Club, which is but three days away, bringing the fast ones by the dozen. In all, over 150 horses are now stabled at the track and the barns surrounding the inclosure are being rapidly snapped up. The track itself is lightning fast, and, while the most of the trainers are getting their animals settled in their new homes and galloping is the rule, a few fast tryouts have already taken place. "Yesterdays arrivals at the track include the stables of Finn and Ross, Hatfield and Own- ; bey, J. E. ,Cushing and others. Finn and Ross brought a nice string from St. Louis, including Flintlock, Blanco, Maghoni, Ben Lear, and others. "The steeplechase course was completed. It will be in the shape of a figure eight, and . should make an attractive race. The water jump will be in front of the stand. "At Highland Park, where fully as many Horses will be stabled during the Grosse . Point meeting as,, there are at the track where the racing will take place, there is a bunch of selling platers and jumpers that would furnish the material for a very respectable meeting right now. Telegrams were arriving all day yesterday at the down town headquarters of the track, requesting stable room. Among the owners who will be represented are many who have not heretofore had their colors sported on a Detroit track. Among those already on the ground and expected daily are the strings of Mayor Fleischmann of Cincinnati, 15 head; J. H. Baker, 14 head; Ed Moore, 8 head; L. B. Dickerson, 10 head; W. Robinson, 7 head; J. James, 5 head, mostly two-year-olds; F. W. Torreyson, the one-time Grand Rapids base ball magnate, 3 head; W. S. Laird, 5 head; C. Hak and Sons with four jumpers; B. Brown, with 7 head, Frank Dolan, with 5; J. Cochran, father of the famous jockey, with 5 head; W. T. Towns, with 6; J. Fox, with 7 jumpers; J. Tevis, with 7; J. Howell, 6; W. L. Hazelip, with 15; H. J. Perry, better known as a judge on the trotting tracks, with 5, and C. T. Waltring, with 15. "There are also a considerable number of horses in training at Highland Park, the property of Detroit people. Captain Algers Sam Parmer is expected to get into the brackets this year; there are three horses in the Baylor string and W. S. Trevy, who has the old jumper, Terry Ranger, will also train four head for George R. Smith of this city. "President George M. Hendrie, of the Highland Park Club, was at his office for a short time yesterday afternoon, having just returned from Toronto, where, he says, the Woodbine meeting is setting new records for attendance so far as the history of rac-; ing In the dominion Is concerned. Mr. Hen- drie also formally confirmed the rumors re-; latlve to the dates which have been ar- . ranged between his organization and the i Windsor Club. "S. Wagner, who is promoting the Wind-5 . sor meeting, has arranged with the Highland . Park Club for the last week of its racing . season, thus shortening the Detroit or-1 . ganlzatlons fall meeting by six days. The s | meeting was to have closed September 19. . It will close September 12, arid racing at t Windsor will begin September 14. What the j intentions of Mr. Wagner relative to the 3 length of his meeting are have not yet been x disclosed, but it is thought probable that, if f 1 1 the game is good, the horses will perambulate about the Canadian track till the chill of winter puts an end to the alleged sport of kings."
