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CANADIAN CIRCUIT TO CLOSE TODAY Fort Erie Card Will Bring Canadian Racing Asso ¬ ciations Schedule to an End Buffalo N Y October 10 Todays program at Fort Erie was made up of a series of selling races and while the fields lacked class they were evenly matched and in a majority of Instances good con ¬ tests resulted Favorites and outsiders divided the honors the successful choices being Anna L Ualey Lexington Lady ami Dr Barkley Jockeys J Wil ¬ son and Goldstein monopolized the riding honors the former piloting three winners and the latter two The best contest of the afternoon came with the running of the sixth race in which four of tlie six starters finished in a compact bunch heads and necks separating them at the finish Dixie Knight won the race after a game stretch straggle with Hooray and Nethermost NethermostJockey Jockey Wilsons finish on Dr Barkley was one of the best furnished by any rider during the meeting Wilson brought Dr Barkley from last place in the stretch and in the final drive put it ail over Guy Garner who had the mount on Oxer OxerTlie Tlie fifth race was marked by a lot of rough riding half of the field meeting with interference Kokomo was hamstrung in the race as a result of being jumped on before they had gone a sixteenth and his injuries were so severe that his traiuw ordered him destroyed destroyedRifleman Rifleman broke down badly during the running of the sixth race which probably means that his racing days have come to an end endThe The stables owned by A G Weston and Grant Hugh Browne were shipped to Pimllco tonight B MIchell who races under the name of the Al ¬ berta Stable has arranged to send his horses from here to California They will probably be shipped with the Mackenzie and Pritchard horses to Toronto where they will join those that William Walker will send to the coast Those four stables will leave Toronto for California simultaneously simultaneouslyJohn John W Schorr has closed a deal with Barney Schrelber for three yearlings Two of them are by Sain and one by Banhockburn One is a sister to Dr Gardner another a brother to Lacy Crawford and the other out of a sister to Nora Ives the dam of Banives John BanivesJohn Dvment has two Sain youngsters at his farm at Barrie Ona is a suckling bay filly out of Elf the dam of Broomstick and another a yearling out of Hera by Hamburg Tara Blackburn BlackburnSight Sight ran In the namq of Fred Fox today the latter having purchased him of Mrs George Little a few days ago agoJockoy Jockoy J Wilson has arranged to ride the horses that Mrs L A Livingston may start at Pimlico this fall Wilson will T robably go from there to Jacksonville for the winter winterDetroit Detroit winner of the fifth race ran in the name and colors of C Howland this afternoon the latter having purchased him of T F Borranan BorrananThe The Mexican stallion Zacatecas has been donated to the Canadian National Bureau of Breeding by S A Clopton CloptonSteeplechase Steeplechase jockey McClain who was supposed to have been seriously Injured as a result of a fall from Dr Heard ou Saturday turned up at the track this afternoon looking none the worse for his tumble lie complained of pains in his side but said that he would be in condition to ride at PIui Ilco Saturday He will leave for Baltimore tomor ¬ row night nightTom Tom Shaw Wilfred Gerdes Harry Stringer and the remainder of the Sliaw crew left for New York Saturday but will be on hand for the opening at Pimlico PimlicoWith With the running of todays card the racing sea ¬ son of the Canadian Racing Associations tracks will come to a close In spite of the restrictions en ¬ tailed by the racing law enacted at Ottawa last winter the season has been a successful cue
