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EIGHT THOUSAND SEE RACES WINDSOR MEETING OPENED UNDER EXCEEDINGLY AUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. Downpour of Rain Follows Second Race and Changes Track Conditions — Plaudmore Wins the Frontier Handicap. Detroit. Mich.. July 10. — The opening of the Windsor Fair Grounds and Driving Park Associations summer meeting this afternoon found a record-breah-lag attendance present, fully N.oOO enthusiastic racegoers making the trip across the river to witness the sport. A high class program was provided hy the management. There were eight races, with the Frontier Handicap as the bright, particular feature. Three of the races were dashes for two year-olds. Fortunately for the cluh. bright skies prevailed until after the running of the steeplechase, when a i»er-fect deluge of rain was unloaded from dark clouds which suddenly blear up from the west and for the remainder of the afternoon sloppy going was in order. In the Frontier Handicap Plaudmore led from start to finish. He was one of the outsiders in the netting, was ridden hy Gotdateia and heat the Schorr entry. John Reardon. hy a length and a half. Seismic, the favorite, appeared to lahor all the way and the track conditions wore respolisihle in a great measure for his defeat. Tom Hayward. after showing a brilliant hurst of speed rounding the far torn, weakened in tilt? homestretch and was heaten a brad for the place in the closing strides. Favorites and outsiders divided the honors, the successful choices being John driffm II., Capsize, Planutess and Donald Macdonald. All four of these made runaway affairs of their respective races and won with plenty to spare. The surprises were Plaudmore. Thoaaoad, Ta Nun Da and Nora Emma, the last three heing at long odds. Nora Emma carried the colors of William A. Porter, and was ridden hy McTaggart, an airprentice. who showed promising form at the i/ouisville meeting. The thirty-one ookmakcrs who cnt In showed their appreciation of the move made by the Windsor jockey cluh in aliolishing the tield books in the following memorial, which was presented to President George M. Hendrie: "We. the undersigned bookmakers, desire to thank yon for voluntarily discontinuing the dollar books at your track and we fi-cl that tbe public appreciates the change probably most of all. Signed C. D. Meyers. J. S. Saunders, M. Boaslierg. j. Mellin-ger. Fred Cook. George Dickey. II. Gardner, I. Ham, S. A Ilea berg, p. .1. McGrath. S. Coha. M. Wolff. J. K. Lewis. Lee Wagner. Charles Walters. John Eltch, J. J. Donovan. S. P. Bradley. George Linden. Frank C. Bain. John Cahill. Charles B. Walter. I. Oarsen. J. M. Coburn, Frank Baer, J. McCaffertv P J. Moy-lett." After Donald Macdonald won the eighth race a stranger stepped out and lioosfed the horse 00 over his entered price of 8303. Owner Ctoptoa pro-tiM-ted his horse witli the customary advance of . Charlie Douglass, trainer for Courtlandt II. Smith, who was confined to a local hospital for a couple of weeks, was about today. It was at lirst feared he was suffering from typhoid fever. There was quite a delegation present from Chicago and Cincinnati, and they helped swell the volume of speculation, which was exceedingly brisk. John Powers evidently contemplates a Canadian campaign, as he has wired for eight stalls at Fort Erie. Mr. Powers will return with Jack Atkin, Sager and several of Harry Shaws horses. Among the riders from Latonia who are here are Oana, Warren. Dafaagri and W. Moss. J. W. Fuller, who has been racing his horses In Oklahoma, is here with his stable, and will remain for the rest of the season. Fred Cook was among the layers that cut in this afternoon. He had been operating on the Oklahoma tracks of late.
