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ANOTHER STAKE TO MOISANT ALBERT SIMONS DIMINUTIVE FILLY IS WINNER OF IROQUOIS HOTEL HANDICAP. , Her Successes Include Four Stake Victories on Canadian Circuit Cliff Edge and Blackford Score Double for Watkins Stable. Buffalo, N. Y., August 1. Albert Simons diminutive Moisant, liv Hamburg Ascension, today added to her string of victories by winning the Iroquois Hotel Handicap, the feature event of the card offered by the Niagara Racing Association at the Fort Erie course this afternoon. .Moisant met and defeated a baud of two-year-olds of fair class. She carried 122 pounds, made all of her own pace and beat Sherlock Holmes a scant half-length in a driving finish. Burly, Hamilton and Sherlock Holmes were added starters. In her eleven starts this .season Moisant has won seven times, finished second once and ran unplaced three times. The Detroit Stakes and Edenwold Stakes at Windsor and the Victoria Stakes at Woodbine, in which she was given first money on a foul after Vestibule had beaten her a neck, are among her successes. . Spirited racing was the order this afternoon, the finishes in the last Tour races finding the winners under hard drives to win by small margins. K. K. Watkins furnished the winners in the fifth and seventh races in Cliff Edge and Blackford, both of which got np in the closing strides. Each of them ran within a fraction of a second of the track records. Volthorpp was the "good thing" of the day. Heavily backed he just did manage to get up in the final strides to beat Startler a nose. Loftus rode a desperate finish. There were a number of arrivals this morning, many of whom are prominent in the turf world. John Sanford came from Amsterdam to superintend the disposal of the racers that he will offer at auction at the Kenllworth track on Thursday. Mr. Sanford pronounces his two-year-olds the best-looking lot that ever left Amsterdam. The horses arrived in good condition this morning and are stabled at the Kenllworth course on the American side of lierivcr. Other visitors included l- H. Brnnell of Chicago; Herbert Turner, who accompanied Mr. San-forrt from Amsterdam: Hal Pair of Virginia; Mortimer Mahoney, who is here in the Interest of the stakes offered at Iimlico this fall by the Maryland Jockev Club: Brownie Kneale of Sheepshead Bay: Charles T. Boots of California, who is ou his way to Maine; W. T. Anderson, who came on from Colorado to attend the sale of the Sanford horses, and steeplechase jockeys Tom Donohue and Fred Williams, who came to ride in the Grand Canadian Steeplechase, which will be run on Thursday. Mr. Boots reported that he is still breeding thoroughbreds and that lie expects to continue doing so. He stopped off here to meet some turf acquaintances and will probably remain a couple of days. U. T. McKeever received a cablegram which brought the news that his good jumper Sanctus yesterday won a steeplechase stake at Ostend, Belgium, worth ,000. The horse will lie shipped to Baden-Baden tomorrow to fill engagements in two stakes at that noted European resort. Mr. McKeever lias arranged to dispose of his black colt Voltaire aiid take Springmass abroad. He will probably leave after the Fort Erie meeting. Willie Kuupp, who arrived from Europe a couple of weeks ago. says that He Munds sensational trials while schooling at Auteuil were the talk of he continent and that the horse was looked lqion as the best steeplechase prospect In Europe. George St. Clair, alias Stevens, who was arrested liv officers Duhaiiie and Shevlin of the Pinkertou forces on Saturday last on the charge of sending information to poolrooms hi violation of tin; provisions of the Miller bill, has been released on ,000 bail. His trial will take place at Welland on Friday. Capt. W. F. Presgravo, who is summering at Saratoga, wired his trainer. A. C. Weston, that he would 1m- here on Thursday. He will look over the horses offered at the Sanford sale and probably will lie a purchaser. .lames McManus anounced that lie would sail -for Europe August 10 and remain abroad for a month. He will return in time for the opening of the Lexington fall meeting. Jockev Carroll Shilling left for his home in Texas this nioVnlng. He will not return to Canada until lacing is resumed at Montreal. He plans to ride at Blue Bonnets and Woodbine. Shilling will ac-.couipunv S. C. Hildreth to England the coming fall Baron Rothschild has obtained second call on Shillings services according to that rider. Shilling claims that he will receive a retainer that will lie qulvalent to the salary paid for first call in this country. Mr. Hihlreths contract on Shilling ex-liiies October SO, but Shilling will remain under his management on the other side. R. F. Carman will probably sell fifteen or twenty of his racers in the paddock at Fort Erie on Saturday. He is trying to arrange with the Fasig-Tlp-loii people to handle the sale for him.
