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SIX FAVORITES WIN AT FORT ERIE. Polly Prim Takes the Handicap Steeplechase Goes to Russell A. Buffalo, N. Y., July 24. Iolly Brim, holder of the Kenilworth mile record, won todays feature race at Fort Urie, tlie handicap at a mile and a sixteenth. Iolly lrim carried top weight, was favorite iu tlie betting and won easily after making all her own pace. She was ridden by J. Lee and defeated among others Hie four-year-old Peter Sterling, a horse that is rated one of tlie best of the handicap division on tlie Canadian circuit. The racing was clean and a majority of the races were well contested and, better still, six of tlie seven favorites won. Tlie attendance was good and speculation brisk. The steeplechase, which went to tlie favorite Bussell A., proved a hurly burly affair witli the Held rustling at the jumps pell nicll. Not one of tlie six starters made any attempt to raise. They merely brushed through the jumps and.it appeared that every one of the lot would go downnt one time or another. J. I. Strode lias arranged with Fred Cook to train tlie two-year-olds Whisk Broom and Lattice. These horses are due to arrive from Latonia tomorrow. U. Itindsburg will ship his string to the Umpire City track Saturday. Several other horsemen have also announced their intention of shipping to the Yonkcrs track next week. Hal Booker, who got into trouble with the Jockey Club over the inconsistent, running of the horse Gilpin at Kenilworth, shippid the horse to his home at Decatur, 111., this morning. J. Lee was lined 5 for rough riding iu the t-evenlh race. While rounding the far turn Lee pulled over ami sharply cut oil Ayr Water. The horses George S. Davis, Pantoulle, Gold Spot and Judge Denton were shipped to Montreal this morning.
