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ALL IS READY AT WINDSOR f FINAL MEETING OF 1911 AT THAT TRACK WILL OPEN TOMORROW. All Indications Point to Duplication of Remarkabla Success of First Meeting of Season at Same Place All Important Stables on Hand. Detroit, Mich., August 20. The Windsor Fair Grounds and Driving Park Associations final meeting; of the present season will open Monday and after the usual seven days session of racing here, horsemen and race-goers will depart for Montreal. The first mooting at Windsor was the bannur one of the Canadian season, the attendance being greater than at any of the other tracks and speculation being keener. Present indications arc that this final meeting will be equally as successful as that of a month ago. Secretary Parmer has provided a program of seven races, with the D. B. I. and W. Ferry Company Handicap as the attraction. This Is a dash of one mile and a really good field is named to go to the post. Plate Glass is the top weight at 117 pounds, while Edda, at 02 pounds, is the bottom weight. In ita present conditon tho track is fast and. provided no rain falls In the meantime, the going will bo better than at any time during the season on Monday. All of tho important stables are here witli the exception of that of S. C. Hildreth, and even he has sent a division of his horses in charge of William Garth. There are six in this lot. two of which are the jumpers Dinua Ken and The Welkin. At the conclusion of the Windsor meeting they will be shipped to Sheepshead Bay to be sold at miction, together with the rest of the string now quartered at the Long Island course. Mortimer Mahoney, who will be in charge of the Windsor betting ring, is on the ground making preparations to accommodate the layers who will operate here. With Detroit, Cleveland. Toledo. Chicago and Cincinnati to draw from, Windsor has become one of the really important meetings of the country and speculation is as brisk here as it was in the old days at Toronto. More big operators gather here than at any other track on the circuit and a great number of them stop over at Mt. Clemens during the meeting. Spellbound will be on tho shelf for a time in consequence of his collision with the two-year-old Alamitos. SpclllKiund was in grand condition when the mishap occurred and promised to be an Important factor in the handicaps and allowance races during; the fall meetings. Richard Pending arrived from Saratoga yesterday with two jumpers, Monte Carlo and Agnier. Both have been in training for two months and are said to be ready to race. .Monte Carlo looks exceptionally well and should race well. Pending himself has retired from the saddle and will in future devote his attention to handling his own horses. Tom Brown, who acted as one of Mars Cassldys assistants at Juarez last winter and at the Kentucky tracks during the summer, is here. He will leave for Chicago early next week to fill an engagement as starter and racing secretary for a three-days fair meeting to be given at Joliet. Jockey Eddie Taplin, under contract to R. J. Mackenzie, will do William Garths riding during the Windsor meeting in races in which his employer does not have a starter. Jockey Byrne, who. lias been riding for Mr. Garth all season, went from Hamilton to Montreal with his employer, Capt. P. M. Walker. Before leaving Canada. S. C. Hildreth sold the two-year-old, Jawbone, to Albert Simons.
