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* . ! rik EXCELLENT OUTLOOK FOR SUCCESSFUL MEETING AT WINDSOR * , j. Detroit. Mich.. July 8. — The summer meeting of the Windsor Fair Crounds and Racing Association will start next Saturday and continue until the Saturday following. .Never in the history of thoroughbred racing in the vicinity of Detroit have the prospects looked so bright for a successful meeting as now. The highest class of thoroughbreds ill the land will contest for the richest series of stakes and purses ever offered at Windsor and the star jockeys ot the United States and Canada will do the riding. Willi stables of the caliber of August Belmonts. S. C. Hildreths P. S. P. Randolphs. Joseph F. Si agraaia, R. T. Wilsons. Mrs. L. A. Livingstons and John W. Schorrs to participate in the various events, it is not difficult to realize the importance of the local turf outlook. This season has brought the most superb racing ever seen on the Canadian circuit from the raising of the curtain at Toronto in May to the close of the Fort Brie meiting yesterday. But the prospect for Windsor is even more roseate from the fact thai in addition to the cream of the eastern division of horses there will be present here next week the pick of the thoroughbreds now at Latonia. which track will close on the day that racing starts across the river. The splendid program arranged •■r the meeting calls for an average daily distribu lion of .5oo. There are live stake events during the week and the days on which these fixtures will be decided ale as follows: Saturday. July 1." -Frontier Handicap, one mile and an eighth: sixty six nominations. Monday. July 17 Edcnwnld Stakes, two-year-olds, live eighths of a mile; seventy-two nominations. Wednesday. July 19— Pontchartrain Stakes, selling. I hire qiiai ten of a mile; sixty four nominations. Thursday. July 2 — Detroit Stakes, two-year-olds, rive and a half furlongs: sixty-two nominations. Saturday. July 22 — Belle Isle Stakes, selling, one mile; fifty eight neminations. For the opening day seven races have been framed. and a similar number for each succeeding day until the final day. when eight will be carded. For the opening stake, the Frontier Handicap, the field will be drawn from such a notable list of turf pci lei lie 1 s as August Belmonts Priscillian, Whist and Flint Rock; T. R. tondrans The Nigger; S. c. Hildreths Fitz Herbert, King Jasses, Novelty. Zeus. Royal Meteor: L. Johnsons Carlton C: Quincy Stables Everett. P. S. P. Randolphs Plate Class: John W. Schorrs Star Chatter and Edda and R. T. Wilsons Cherish. The Frontier will be only one of many great races that will be decided at Windsor during the meeting. Many of the overnight purse racis will contain horses of a class never before equaled at the track across the river. The many stfenleehaae events carded for the meeting will bring out the best of the fencers iu the I sited States and Canada t" contest over Windsors picturesque course for the timber toppers. With the track remaining fast during the meeting, some new records are bound to lie established in harmony with the extraordinarily fast time re corded at ether points on the Canadian circuit this Mason. Several of the horses nominated for the Frontier Handicap and other all aged stakes already have made new marks this year. When these record breakers meet in one race further reducing of records is likely to ensue as a matter of course. A. I.. Dade, who has been making an excellent reputation as a starter on the Canadian circuit for several years, will again handle the flag here ami Charles F. Price and Francis Nelson will preside in the stand, s. e. Parmer will be the paddock judge and Fred W. Cerhardy will serve as clerk of the scales. The judges, together with Walter O. Parmer, will lo..k after the Important task of handicapping. In view of the superb class of the sport at Windsor this year, there will be no diminution in the attendance on account of the charge of .50 for men and .00 for women, the tariff which will be iu vogue.
