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MANY HORSES FOR HAMILTON NEXT MEETING ON CANADIAN CIRCUIT OPENS THERE ON SATURDAY. Grandstand Recently Burned Replaced with Temporary Structure Bookmakers Enjoy a Winning Streak Canadian Circuit Gossip, Hamilton, Ont.. August 7. It is evident that it will be a problem to provide accommodations for the horses that are coming for the racing which will open here the coming Saturday. The Hamilton Jockey Club never enjoyed better prospects for a prosperous ami successful meeting. Conditions will he virtually the same as at the recent meetings at Windsor aud Fort Eric. Everything is in readiness for the opening day, a temporary grandstand having been erected to replace the structure destroyed by tire a few weeks ago. Racing in Canada just now has attained an Importance it never had before. All of the prominent stables and race followers from the east and west are gathered here in the absence of pretentious racing elsewhere in the country. There are more New Yorkers hereabouts now than were present at the spring meetings, and Kentucky is well represented, tot. Racing is on a solid foundation in Canada. The sport is well governed by the Canadian Racing Associations, and the oflicials at the different tracks are on the alert, with the result that the sport has been clean and wholesome. Starter Dade is doing the best work of bis career at the barrier, and soeulatiou is heavier than ever before. There was an average of thirty-two liooks in line at the Windsor meeting, and the recently closed Fort Erie meeting averaged alwut the same. The meetings at Windsor and Fort Erie were banner ones for the bookmakers. Many of the layers recouped previous losses and some of them are big winners. Peter McGrath cleaned up 0,000 on Wednesday at Fort Erie, and Tom Shaw has been doing well since the closing day at Windsor. George Odom will return to Kentucky after the close of the Windsor meeting. He is much taken with conditions at Louisville and Latouia, where the pari-mutuels are used. ., W. T. Anderson, who,..arrlveiL.from Denver a few .days ngo, contemplates racing n string at Laurel, Old., and will ship from there to Havana.
