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WINDSORS MEETING MOST PROSPEROUS PROSPEROUSNew New York and Latonia Troubles Helped to Success James Bluff Was Successful and Well Stopped StoppedDetroit Detroit Mich July 25 The Windsor meeting was by far the best ever held at the course The meeting began at just about the time the crusade began in New York This helped the local sport greatly as not only were many good stables at ¬ tracted here from the metropolitan circuit but betting men also forsook the unsatisfactory hide and seek methods made necessary in the wist for the practically open booking of the Northern Cir ¬ cuit Resides all this before the meeting was half over the spring racing at Latonia came to a sudden termination when L A Cella and Joseph L Rhinock concluded they could not got along without the slates up Thus many more good horses as well as turfmen of means were attracted northward northwardThe The tightness of money has l ccn felt here as elsewhere and while the speculation was exception ¬ ally good under the circumstances it was not really of the volume that one might have expected from the big crowds in daily attendance at the meeting More highclass horses were gathered at the course than ever liefore raced here and the equaling and lowering of track records was a matter of almost daily occurrence when the track was in condition for really fast running One of the most brilliant per ¬ formances of the meeting was that shown by Polly Prim when this sterling mare but recently arrived from Latonia set a new mile mark running that distance in 138 and winning handily from good op ¬ ponents As the previous track mark was 139 it can be seen that Polly Prims effort was consider ¬ ably above the average On top of that she came right back conceded big weight on a lumpy and dead track and beat good horses over the seven furlongs route in fast time considering the state of the going goingDuring During the latter part of the meeting Fred Cooks horses were just beginning to get into good racing fettle Lawrence P Daley a colt that Cook last year refused to sell for 25000 ran three or four sparkling races and it looks as though in fast going lie should be able to take the measure of any other thoroughbred in the west from now on He won an excellent race from Martin Doyle another highclass one but performed as though deep going was not to his liking as he did not seem able to extend himself freely There was some talk that Lawrence P Daley had been leased to W A Gor ¬ man of Cincinnati but that deal appears to have fallen through as the colt is still running in Cooks name and colors colorsFor For a time Detroit was threatened with the half mile track nuisance Joseph James a former Can ¬ adian poolroom operator who owned i plot of twelve acres of land adjoining the Windsor property set about constructing a queerly designed merrygo round The land is In the shape of a triangle and the main track necessarily had to be kiteshaped with the turn so narrow at the apex that it would have been utterly impossible for horses to have raced around it even at half speed Besides that the land has a rocky formation and when ploughed up the track was so full of stones and pebbles that no owner having a halfway good horse would have raced over it However James pushed his construc ¬ tion forward so rapidly having a big force of men at work and made his announcements with such posi tiveness that there wa a general local feeling the thing might be some soft of a go A week before the meeting ended the Windsor Association put at rest all anticipations of an allsummer nightmare here similar to that at New Orleans through the theEurchase Eurchase of the property The acquisition of this Hid will give the Windsor people the opportunity to affect many needed improvements among them improved street railway terminal facilities the build ¬ ing of a clubhouse of additional stables and the construction of a seven furlongs chute which will permit the runners to travel that distance at future meetings over only one turn The price James got was 12000 about 350 per acre over its market price nowadays nowadaysNo No announcement has yet been made as to future Windsor plans Some of the horsemen assume to believe than another meeting may be given follow ¬ ing the Fort Brie meeting and conflicting in part at least with the Montreal meeting Enough horses are now OH the Canadian circuit to make two meetings at such widely different points as Wind ¬ sor and Montreal profitable even If run on conflict ¬ ing dates But what may be done in this respect will probably only be determined by future developments developmentsS S B Weems
