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FINE CARD FOR OPENING- PROMISING PROSPECTS FOR MEETING WHICH BEGINS AT FORT ERIE TODAY. Followors of Racine Pouring Into Buffalo in Un-precedented Numbers Additions to tho Riding Brigade from East. Buffalo, N. Y.. August 25. Everything is in readiness for the opening tomorrow at Fort Erie of the fall meeting of nine days, which will terminate the Niagara Racing Associations racing for this season. After the close here, horsemen will in sue cession Journey to Montreal. Toronto, Hamilton and Windsor before migrating south for a winter campaign. Present conditions indicate that the coming period of sport will eclipse in brilliancy the preceding meeting held here, which was accounted the banner one in the history of the track. With few exceptions, all the horses that engager in the racing at Windsor returned here. They will be augmented by strong strings from Saratoga, including the big band of racers campaigned by H, G. Bedwell, who arrived today. The list of jockeys who will sport silks has received accessions, many of the lads who rode on eastern tracks having reached here today. During the afternoon followers of racing poured into Buffalo from various sections of the country, nearby Canadian cities being especially well represented, and the opening promises to exceed in point of attendance any former gathering. The track is in splendid sbaiie, a trille hard, but this will be remedied, as far as possible, by liberal sprinkling during the night. Secretary Magiuus opening day card compares well with former offerings on any of the Canadiati courses and promises splendid sport. The remarkable success that has attended the sport at all the tracks on the northern circuit this season has been unparalleled in the history of Canadian "racing, and all the horsemen agree that the formation of the Canadian Racing Associations as a governing body has done much to bring about the present desirable conditions. AH are hoping that the sport-loving citizens in the Dominion will let well enough alone and that the Canadian Racing Associations, which has made such an auspicious beginning, will be left to work out the many minor reforms necessary to the welfare of the sport. There was some grumbling by a few disgruntled owners when they learned that the conditions for all the raees here entailed an entrance fee of 0. This entrance money goes to the winner and a ma ioritv of the owners deem this move to be one ."in the right direction, as it will tend to hold the .fields down to contenders and eliminate the qualifying process sometimes resorted to.
