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FORT ERIE RACING WELL PATRONIZED Dick Welles Son Dick Roller Wins Like a Coming Good One John Carroll Beaten Buffalo X Y August 3 The layers had their inning at Fort Erie this afternoon as only two of the six favorites managed to land purses Another large attendance marked the day and the racing was spirited and close The steeplechase over the short course and a handicap for sprinters at three quarters were the features The last named resulted in a spirited struggle from the barriers rise the entire field of eight starters being closely grouped for the major part of the race John Carroll on the strength of his recent good races was made favorite but his impost of ILO pounds proved his undoing St Jeanne coupled with Superstition winning by a small margin over Chief Hayes and Night Mist John Carroll was a fastgoing fourtn and at a longer distance would in all probability have won wonThe The steeplechase was a healthy contest with an improved showing on the part of all the starters In their fencing Lights Out and Miinzano were the early leaders and the pair showed the way over the lirst ten hedges Lights Out at this point fell hack beaten anil McAllister joined Manzano The latter made a bad blunder at the next hedge and this left McAllister seemingly an easy winner but Byzantine coming with a welltimed rush through the stretch got up in the last few strides to win by a head Lights Out overhauling the tiring Manzano for third place placeThe The principal upset came in the closing race when Tom Dolan was beaten by Xeverus The Dunne representative was away running fast whereas Tom Dolan was in a tangle at the start The early ad ¬ vantage that Severn gained rtai too much for Tom Dolan to overcome and although he finished with a rush governs managed to land the purse by a half length Witli a letter sendoff Servile whirli fin ishcd beatJ third woutd have IKHMI hard to beat J B liespegs showed in Dick Roller a colt by Dick Welles what may prove to be the best young ¬ ster in these parts lie was in with a fair band of maiden youngsters in the third race and spread eagled them winning in a common canter canterThe The opening race also went to a southerntrained horse when Landlord won after a long stretch drive from twoyearoldsGolden thirteen other twoyearolds Golden Shore was much the best of a mediocre field that started iu the fifth and won off Golden Shore and Dick Roller were the only winning favor ¬ ites itesSeveral Several horsemen including Barney Schreiber ar ¬ rived last night from Quebec Schreiber character ¬ ized the Quebec meeting as the biggest burlesque race meeting ever attempted At ri6 time said he did the gale amount to 200 The people would not even accept free badges to go to the races Two hooks handled the betting which was extremely light Most of the owners who conhi ship from Quebec to Montreal left for there at the close of the meeting and will remain cither for the Blue Bon ¬ nets or the halfmile meeting to be held beginning August 17 and continue for seven days Schreiber failed to sell a single horse that he shipped to Quebec lie left friost of them in Montreal Three of his lot will be shipped to Fort Erie with the consignments of J IT Strode and L V Bellow BellowThe The steeplechaser Raining Leaves while being schooled this morning fell and broke her neck Jockey Bernhardt who rode Jier sustained a frac ¬ tured collar bone boneJockey Jockey S Flynu was an arrival from New York this morning morningBenny Benny Jacobs who developed and managed J Lee will in futttre have charge of Jockey Butler and make his engagements
