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WINDSORS BRILLIANT END REDUCING OF TWO TRACK RECORDS MARKS CLOSING DAYS RACING. Eye White Makes New Mark for Five .and a Half Furlongs and Azo Cuts Time for Two Miles All Red Wins Stake. Detroit, Mich.. August 21. The Windsor Racing Associations summer meeting of nineteen days, racing terminated this afternoon with the largest attendance present in the history of the track. As a getaway offering eight races were carded, of which the 1. B. I. and Windsor Ferry Co. Handicap, at a mile, a steeplechase over the short course and a handicap for sprinters were the principal features. The racing proved interesting throughout and aroused keen enthusiasm. Most of the best-backed; starters were successful and this circumstance added greatly to the enjoyment of the major portion of those who witnessed the sport. Lon Johnsons All Red was thC victor in the stake race, scoring in handy .fashion, after a sensational final quarter sprint. During the early stages he was a distant trailer, the speedy Centre Shot being iu front, with Gren Seal as her closest attendant. Tin pair, however, found the route a trifle too far under their steadying imposts and the three-year-old passed them when called on for the supreme effort. Toureiine took second money from the uncertain Gretna Green. The steeplechase brigade attempted a coup on Manzano. but Lizzie Flat led him to the finish. Bonnie Kate, the favorite, bolted after going over the fourth hedge, and broke down after resuming the course. Class Leader came to grief at the seventh fence. Eye White, running to his best form, ran a sparkling race in the juvenile feature and iu winning ran live and a half furlongs iu 1:05. which was two-fifths of a second faster than the former track record made by Pemi. The latter finished second to Eye White in todays race. Little Osage showed smart Improvement over nrevious efforts here iu the sprinting handicap and led from start to finish. Sewell was closest to hlui at the end. with Tom Hiiyward third. Azo. T. H. Stevens long-distance racer, made a show of Ills opposition in the twO-mlle race, for which be was air overwhelming favorite, and Incidentally reduced the track record for the distance from .3:31 to 3:29ji. Doubt just managed to lead Oberon for second place. J. W, Fuller took a nurse when Iniury outfooted ten other in the seventh race. The Shaughraun was much the best in the . closing race and had to be to successfully overcome the interference he suffered from. He got up In. the last stride to beat Ragman. Most of the horsemen who engaged in the racing here will return to Fort Erie for the meeting which begins there on Thursday next for a period of nine racing days. Two carloads of horses, the property of various owners, will be sent to Quebec for the short meeting there, n. McDaniel. in charge of the It. L. Thomas string, will ship eight horses to Shoepshead Bay to be raced there. Jockey Kennedy was fined 5 by the judges for rough riding in the seventh race. Charles F. Price, -who acted as presiding judge here, will leave for an eastern resort, to remain sev. eral weeks before returning to Louisville to preside at the Churchill Downs fall meeting.
