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ON TO sF0RT ERIE TRACK HORSEMEN TRANSFERRING THEIR STRINGS FOR THURSDAYS OPENING. Wholesale Shipments from Windsor, Where Meeting Has Just Closed Star Wave Goes to New York to Meet Eastern Cracks. Detroit, Mich., Angust 23. Horsemen were busy yesterday and today with preparations for shipping their racers to Fprt Erie and other points where they intend racing. Among the consignments shipped to Sheepshead liay were the horses of, R. L. Thomas and John Dyment. Thomas will campaign only eight racers this fall, hut they are of more than average quality. Dyinents lot includes the good colt. Star Wave, which the owner expects to make a good showing in the east. The semi-official announcement that a race meeting of at least twenty-live days duration will be given at Latonia this fall was pleasing news to horsemen here. It is presumed that the Latonia management will attempt its racing immediately after the close of the Churchill Downs meeting anil continue until well along in November, thereby en tailing only a small term of Idleness to horsemen before the opening of the winter tracks in Florida,-California and Mexico. The cx6dus of horsemen from here to Fort Erie began in earnest today. Every indication points to a successful season of racing at the Niagara Racing Associations track. Some improvements will be started at Windsor at once, principally affecting the betterment of the transportation facilities. This was, the chief source of inconvenience to patrons of the sport this summer. With improved transportation the Windsor plant will rank with the best in the Dominion.
