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KENILWORTH PARK MEETING A SUCCESS. Balance on Right Side of Ledger Orphan Lad Wins Genesee Selling Stakes. Buffalo, N. Y., July 7. Today "marked the closing of the most successful meeting that has ever been held at .Kenilworth Park. The treasurer reports that instead of a deficit, lie 1ms a balance on the right side of the ledger. The usual half holiday crowd todays -was-iric;iased -j-elarga- n!jrojp.r..iik Canadians taking advantage of the excursion of the Toronto Athletic Club. A special train was run from Toronto to Buffalo. The feature of the card was the running of the Genesee Selling Stakes for two-year-olds, while only five youngsters went to the post, It was a race from start to finish. Orphan Lad was installed the choice of the public and It was due to the skill of Koerner that those that backed him cashed. The colt under his urging finished with a terrific rush and got the verdict by a head. With riders reversed, Lucy Marie would have won. Racine 11. repeated his performance of yesterday and won by a narrow margin from Thomond. whicn was let off In the rear of the others under instructions of the judges, it lieing dangerous to the other starters. Had he gotten away on even terms he would have won easily. Alencon, in the fifth race, won in a canter and as lie was pulling up, one of the horses in the rear jumped on him, cutting him badly. Perry McAdow got mixed up in the barrier In the last race, unseated Koerner and made a tour of the stables before he was caught, but his wanderings did not seem to affect his speed. He got off In a good position and made every jost a winning one. Sunray, the favorite, might have won, but when lie got tb the head of lie stretch he bolted to the fence and finished on the extreme outside.
