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FORT ERIE CARD EXCELLENT SPLENDID PROGRAM PROVIDED FOR TODAYS OPENING OF SECOND MEETING. ,000 Dominion Handicap Serves as Topliner, with Best Horses in Training as Contestants Newsy Gossip from Canadian Circuit. Buffalo, N. Y.j July 2S. The second meeting of the Niagara Racing Association will open tomorrow witli one of the best programs ever offered in Canada. The card is made up of seven races with the ,000 Dominion Handicap as the bright and particular feature. This is a race for three-year-olds and upward at one mile aud a quarter, and sixteen have accepted the weights. Included in the lot are some of the best horses here and a higk-clasa contest is certain to result. All of the big stables have entered their best horses and Buffalo patrons of racing will be treated to some of the best sport ever witnessed hereabouts. The Latonia contingent is especially strong and additions from Saratoga and New York will further complicate things. Secretary Maginn has catered to the stayers, only two of the races being at less distances than one mile. Olambala is top weight in the Dominion Handicap at 125 pounds, with Sir John Johnson assigned only one pound less. The Nigger is bottom weight at ninety-eight pounds. Another handicap is provided at one mile and seventy yards, in which Grasmere Is top weight. There are more people here than came for the first meeting. All of the hotels are filled and the crowds about the lobbies remind one of metropolitan racing. The association has gone to considerable expense in making improvements since the close of the previous meeting. A new board flooring has been placed In that part of the enclosure where the bookmakers assemble. This will eliminate the dust and make matters much more comfortable for the layers and their patrons. It is the intention of tho management to provide seven races every day and. possibly eight on the. closing day of the meeting. Speculation on the handicap promises to be keen and it looks as if the favorite in the race should be as good as 3 or 4 to 1. Glass will have the mount on Olambala, Byrne on Governor Gray, E. Dugan on Trap Rock, ;oose on ClifT Edge, Gordon on Zeun and T. Koerner on Ocean Bound. Ayluier is well fancied by the dockers, while Cliff Edge will also have a following. Zuus worked one mile and a quarter for the race in 2:05i, Meridian one mile and an eighth in 1:55. Olambala one mile and a. quarter in 2:07, Aylmer one mile and a quarter in 2:00. Plate Glass one mile and a quarter in 2:0Sand. Governor Gray one mile and an eighth in 2:00, and the Belmont pair, Flint Rock aud Trap Rock one mile and a quarter in 2:07s. Trainer Albright arrived from Amsterdam this morning to arrange for the sale of the entire racing stable of Stephen Sanford and sons at auction hero on Thursday next. He is making an effort to secure the paddock of the Kenilworth Park course ou the Buffalo side of the river for the sale. He announced that twenty-live horses in all would be sold, sixteen of which are two-year-olds. The older horses include Herkimer, Rock Hill, Jack Wall and Granite. Dave Woodford arrived from Saratoga with four of the Beverwyck Stables horses, including Bob It., Aldrian, Lady Irma and Sir John Johnson. All look a trifle high in llesh. James Fitzsimmons is hero from Latonia with his stable. Jockey McCahey accompanied him and will do his riding. II. C. Ilallenbeck has purchased the three-year-old Stinger from C. C. Smithson for 0.500. Tho colt was shipped with the remainder of the Ilallenbeck string to Saratoga to bo rested for the fall meeting at Blue Bonnets, Monreal. Willie Knapp is here from New York and is galloping the horses trained by James Blute. The lattec has again taken over the horses owned by W. P. Austin, succeeding T. Carroll. The Schrciber string has been split in three divisions. P. M. Civill has some at Toronto. William Cahill and C. S. Wilson also have some of the Schreiber horses here. All of them will be llisposcd of. Charles Cella is here on n vacation and may join the ranks of the layers at Fort Erie. It is his first trip to Canada in several years. Woodford Clay, Peter Gaffney, Jake Marklein, Peter McGrath and about 200 others came over on the boat from Detroit last night. A. R. Louden, secretary of the Hamilton Jockey Club, was at the track this morning taking applications for stabling accommodations for the meeting at Hamilton following that at Fore Eric. The temporary grandstand which will take the place of the structure recently burned is rapidly neariug completion and everything will be in readiness for the opening. All of the big stables will ship there. Thomas Brown, who did the starting at the White Sulphur Springs meeting in West Virginia, was an arrival this morning. The meeting was so successful that there is talk of building a mile track at that point. Mr. Brown will remain here throughout the meeting. J. C. Calm, Edward Corrigan and J. S. Ward are among tho newcomers. Goose will do Mr. Wards riding here. Richard F. Carman has transferred some of his horses to bis agent, Frank Kelly, and they will rim in the latters name in future. Sly Lad and Inspector Lestrade. both of which are entered in the first race tomorrow, will run in the Kellr colors. Ta Nun Da, which was taken out of a selling rar at Windsor by J. W. Flynn, has been sold to C. A. Crew for ,500.
