view raw text
RECORDS AEE IN DANGER HORSES CONTINUE TO RUN FAST OVER THE COURSE AT WINDSOR. Flora Riley Reduces Mark for Mile and Three-Six-teenths and Old Honesty Equals Mile Record Lucky Ford Disqualified. Detroit, .Mich.. August C Todays good card served to bring out at Windsor one of the best crowds of the meeting. Most of the finishes were close and exciting. The winners all came in for liberal support, and the layers again recorded losses. Ihe mile and three-sixteenths race, in which some rair sol ing platers met. resulted In the closest finish of the afternoon. Flora Riley beating Reidinoore. the favorite, in the last stride after a determined stretch drive. Tin? former track record of 2:00i was reduced to 1:50. UtL mllu "lrs,! which featured the days car 1, the best racers in this section met and fur-nishod a thrilling contest. Victory rest with Old Honesty, which beat Hanbridge. the favorite, by a scant margin The pace in the race was fast anil SJrf recor.1 of l::t8 was equaled. During tlm m? Vi n,lKr "i"1 V,,,u A It"ted in the le d u n 0I, lloiiesty in close Hi1! i ." attendance. At the 1ohi .d Vi.m.i ,,I.,Io-Kst-y, nyed up.with a rush ami joined Hanbridge the in last sixteenth. Iloth "l?. yVV, "ut u a Iliirl rive, at the en.I of which Old Honesty triumphed by a head. John A. third f place"" W"S l Sti""1 ofC t,,u otutrs fo" The first disqualification of the meeting came with the running of the mile dash in which maiden jockey" rode .A. Rurton landed Lucky Ford first bv a close margin over .Mary Camlelmas and Gwendolyn F ,!!., ,Vil,K Tor fouling and the purse was awarded to .Alary Cnndolmas. Gwendolyn F. was .placed second and The Thorn third. Rurton cut sharply across soon after the start and several of the contestants. narrowly escaped going down. .eueral Marchmont. a recent arrival from Texas. r,ntIu mti,,s,r,f n fair band of sprinters in the fourth race, but his victory was somewhat of a fluke. klv!innoVil1 ,,is, ,,,"ot was Kty-or rough rid ing. Rllly Dodomor being the principal sufferer. Galvesea scored impressively over Inflection and Uanlves in tho opening race. A change in riders from J. 1 lynii to J. Iteld worked well in the ruu-ning of .Minnie Rright, and she disused of her opponents rather handily in the second race, for which Youthful was the favorite. The latter failed to get any portion of the purse. The closing dash, also for maiden jockeys, was taken by Ceremonlus, the favorite, in a close finish with Uncle Toby. Posing landed third money. Jockey Moorehouse, who had the mouut on Occidental, one or the early leaders, fell when his mount stumbled after passing the .three-quarter post. He struck the fence and sustained a deep-gash on the head, which left him unconscious for a period. He recovered his senses upon being taken to the jockey quarters and was hurried to a nearby hospital for treatment. Nothing further has developed in connection with the night riding" allegations. Some contend that -several exercise Iwys were involved. No complaints havo been made to the ollicials here relative to the matter. P. McKenna, a well-known eastern operator, was among todays arrivals. Several horsemen here have signified their intentions of shipping to the Ingalls Park track at Joliet for tho mixed meeting to be held there beginning August 23.
