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SELLING PLATERS RULE AT FORT ERIE Big Crowd Sees Ordinary Racers in Action Over a Heavy Track Buffalo N Y August 13 Conditions were any ¬ thing but favorable for good racing at Fort Erie this afternoon But this did not prevent a big attendance The speculation was the keenest of the meeting and tldrt3seven layers a record number here drew In and were kept busy attending to the wants of those speculatively inclined Todays inclinedTodays card was a poor one composed of selling races but furnished a good medium for much bet ¬ ting on account of the even caliber of the starters startersChoices Choices and second favorites were successful in the lirst five races Helen Bs victory over La Fayette in the closing race being the only good break to favor the layers La Fayette was strongly supported probably tlie best backed of any starter during the afternoon and should have won but Pickens made the mistake of keeping him in the worst part of the track during the first threequar ¬ ters of the trip and it caused him to tire in the stretch stretchP P T Chinn turned loose a good thing in his firsttime starter here T II Rood which won handily from Dr Ilolzberg In the second race Chinn again had designs on the purse hut a poor ride by Kennedy upset the plan and caused Joe Gallons to be beaten a neck bv the favorite Dan de Noyles Thirteen sprinters of the selling variety went to the post in the third race and the preferred ones Snake Mary Marmorean and Stoner Hill fin ¬ ished in the order named namedThe The poor sendoff in the fourth race was partially resHiisible for the victory of Edgely over Piinky The latter was away in a tangle and forced to go wide throughout Witli an equal sendoff with the winner he would have won Estella C running to her best form had no dllliculty in proving her su ¬ periority in the going over a fair band In the fifth Several of the Valley Farm horses that have been resting at Toronto since the close of the Windsor meeting arrived at Fort Erie today In charge of trainer Dlxon DlxonThere There was a rumor this afternoon that the pro ¬ posed halfmile track meeting that was to have taken place at D E Lorimers park Montreal after the close of the Blue Bonnets meeting will not be held the Montreal Jockey Club having leased the around
