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FAST RUNNING AT WINDSOR JOHN GRIFFIN II. MAKES NEW RECORD AND FRIEND HARRY EQUALS ANOTHER. Latter Runs Sparkling Race in Winning at Seven, Eighths — Jockey Pease Suspended on Result of Caper Sauces Defeat. Detroit, Mich., July 22. — Keen contests were the order at Windsor this afternoon. Heavy showers that fell during the morning did little more than Settle the dust and what rain fell made the track faster than on any previous day of the meeting. Most of the winners showed keen speed and ran in close to record time. Friend Harry. Ed Alveya main reliance for the 0,000 Dominion Handicap, to be run on the opening day of the Fort Erie meeting, showed a sparkling performance in his race when he overcame a lot of early interference, closed a big gap and won going away by a couple of lengths. Friend Harry ran seven-eighths in 1:254 which eqaaled the track record for the distance. Warren, who will have the mount on him in the Fort Erie stake, rode him this afternoon, trainer Hatfield having decided to ride Musgrave on Pinkola. Six of the finishes found the winners under hard drives and in four of them heads and necks separated the first two. The feature race of the program, the Essex Handicap, for two-year-olds, at five and a half furlongs, found Cismont the winner. Cis-niont. ridden by Jimmy Rei.1. took an easy lead soon after the break and led throughout, although lie was forced to stand punishment through the stretch- to stall off a determined challenge from Solid Comfort. The latter covered much more ground than the winner. She broke from an outside position, was carried a bit wide on the different turns and, under the circumstances, her race was a good one. Reid figured in another rood ride on Osorine in the seventh race, in which the latter heat Martin Dovle a head. As a result of the running of the opening dash. Which called for horses foaled in the Dominion of Canada, the apprentice jockey Pease was snspende-d, and recommendation will lie made to the license committee of the Canadian Racing Associations that his license be revoked. Pease had the mount on Caper Sauce, the 3 to 5 favorite, which was beate* half a length by Mill on the Floss. Musgrave. who had the mount on the latter, rushed her into a long lead in the early stages, while Pease, on Caper Sauce, left the Iwirrier slowly. The starter reported that the bay appeared to deliberately pull to the outside when the break came. At all events he dropped completely out of the running the first half mile, but entering the homestretch moved up with a burst of speed that landed him on almost equal terms with the leader at the furlong post. Peases effort in the last riateeath was what got him into trouble, the officials being satisfied that his finish was a very weak effort. In the steeplechase Tourney, which finished second to Bergoo, was disqualified for fouling the wiuner at the last fence. Joekey McKinney went whipping to this jump with Bergoo, and loaf as he got to the leader Tourney ducked to the outside right In front of Bergoo. Fortunately no accident occurred but the interference certainly bothered the latter. Bergoo, however, came again in the stretch to win bv a head in the final stride. The judges deemed the interference so palpable that they took second money from Tourney, and the change in placing advanced Dacka into second place and Stellaland into third position. Lucas was fined 5 and suspended for the remainder of the meeting. John Griffin II. created a new record for three-quarters of a mile in the third race when he ran the distance in 1:12. The uufashionably-bred sprinter took the lead at the start and never relinquished if. beating Emperor William in a long and hard stretch drive. Musgrave never struck John Griffin II. with his Whip, but kept threatening him with it through tlie final furlong and the old horse raced on with rare courage. Barney Schreiber. who arrived from the west this morning, made a trip to the paBlMci in this race "to look over the bushwhacker that had the nerve to tackle Jack Atkin so many times," as he expressed it. Several of the horsemen here contemplate sending part of their stables to Saratoga. John Dvment. the young Canadian trainer who is well known on the metropolitan tracks, will ship his good Voter filly, Solid Comfort, and his eyaea three-year-old. Chief Kee. The latter has recovered from his recent lameness and worked a mile in 1:48 this morning. John Walters will send the two-year-old Mclvor and My Gal. and will take John G. Greeners shiftv three-year-old. Countless, with him. The Dvmenf and Walters horses will go east in Richard E. Watkius car. Jockey Jimmy Reid will leave for Empire City tomorrow night to join the Sniithson Stable. Jockey .1. Wilson, who was suspended bv the judges yesterday, has left for his home in Wisconsin. John Dynieiits g.o.l colt. Chief Kee. is in strong work again and will be sent from Windsor to Saratoga, where he has many good engagements. Chief Kee has been laid up for a month because of a Hamilton druggists substitution of wood al.ohol for iho real spirit in a liniment lie compounded. The horses leg was poisoned by the application of the inferior article.
