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FORT ERIE MEETING ENDS NIAGARA RACING ASSOCIATIONS FIRST MEETING BROUGHT TO SUCCESSFUL CLOSE. Royal Meteor Wins Fort Erie Selling Stakes for S. C. Hildreth in Sensational Finish with Baby Wolf and Cohort — Shilling and Dugan in Form. Buffalo, x. v.. July s.— The closing day of the Niagara Bnctag Associations meeting attracted! a liauner crowd at Fort Kric. A splendid program was provided by the management and keen apart ♦■nsued. There "was much contention lo the racing Hiid a majority of the ■■bases found the leadens routing down ihc homestretch under the whip with the outcome in doubt until the official placing was displayed. Jockeys C. II. Shilling and E. Dugan both rude in splendid form. Shillings linisli on Royal Meteor was aloM responsible for the Hildreth horses victory. Shilling could have won wiib either of the first three in this rate. In the Trap Beck race. E. Dugan was driving the Belmont colt from the liead of the Stretch to the linisli and the youngster, displaying speed and courage, just lasted to beat Hamilton Court a head. The feature race, the Fort Frie Selling Stakes. brought out a good lot of sprinters. Cohort and Royal Meteor each had a large following, with the Carman horse a slight favorite. In the early run iiing Cohort drew away from his company and opened , a four lengths bad rounding the far turn. In the homestretch Royal Meteor and Baby Wolf both closed strongly, while Cohort kept hearing out. All three were under a gruelling drive through the last furlong and Koyal Meteor just did manage to win by tti« smallest of margins from Baby Wolf. A crowd gathered around the stand after the race expecting a runup and they were not disappointed. Royal Meteor was entered at ,100 and Sam Louis Carried him to ,800. S. C. Hildreth bid an extra |S and retained his horse. He then claimed Cohort out of the race for .S00, which proably means that K. V. Carina n probably will now cut into the boosting game. All of the winners were heavily backed and the lavers suffered big losses on the day. Mortimer Mahonoy received word from George M Hendrle that arrangements bad beeu made for the ■ .layers to book under cover during the coming nieet-"%ing at Windsor. The running of the mare Top Note is under investigation by the judges, and the case of jockey Byrne, who rode her recently, has been referred to the Canadian Racing Associations. Fines of 0 were imposed on jockeys Shilling and Dugan for indulging in an altereatiou after the run ring of the Derby here on Saturday last. There was some talk that Shilling grasped Whists bridle during the running of the race and Judge Nelson has also referred this matter to the Canadian Racing Associations. J. W. Schorr claimed Topland out of the seventh race on Friday after his filly Fulfill was boosted. H. F. Carman has arranged to ship twenty horses to Windsor on Monday. The remainder of his string will be left at Fort Erie tititil the next meeting. John Duffy will also stay here with The Nigger until the next meeting. A heavily laden special car left for New York tonight and another will leave for Detroit tomorrow morning.
