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WINDSOR RACING POPULAR OPENING OF SECOND MEETING OF YEAR ATTRACTS LARGE GATHERING. Plate Glass Reduces Track Record for Ona Mile to 1:33 in Winning Stake from Good Opposition Canadian Circuit Gossip. Windsor, Out.. August 2S. It is really remarkable how the Windsor Fair Grounds and Driving Park Association has gained in popularity during the past few seasons. The liberality of the club and the clean and wholesome racing has attracted a strong clientele of race-goers and the better class of horsemen. Thirty-six layers were in line at this afternoons opening and a large crowd for Monday, was present. The,eard, which was a well balanced one, produced keen sport, the finishes in some of the. races being close enough to leave the winners in doubt until the official placing was displayed. In the feature race, the D. B. I. and W. Ferry Companys Handicap, a ,500 event, Plate Glass showed a return to his good form by making a runaway victory of the race and wiuniug easily by three lengths after being well in hand for the first six furlongs. The mile was run in 1:383, which marked a new track record for the distance. It was Plate Glass first appearance since the meeting at Fort Erie. The horse ran a couple of dull races and his trainer decided to freshen him a bit. The letup worked wonders with the horse and lie held safe the good opposition he met in todays stake from start to finish. In the steeplechase Ticket of Leave also showed a good performance by shouldering the heavy impost of 170 pounds and leading all the way to win with case. He fenced faultlessly. Monto Carlo made his first appearance of the year in this race aud made a good showing under the circumstances. The halter men are again busy. After Bounders victory in the sixth race he was bid up from 00 to ,205, at which figure he was bought in by his owner, Ral Parr, in whose colors Ticket of Leave also scored. Albert Simons. J. B. Respess and Sam Louis were jointly responsible for the ruri-up. Jockey T. Rice rode two winners. Bounder and Plate Glass. McCahey also piloted two. Taboo and. Elma. The layers had none the best of it today, as four of the public choices finished in front. Some of them were heavily supported, especially Taboo, whose odds at one stage were as low as 5 to 2. C. II. Knebelkamp purchased from Sam Louis this morning the three-year-old Forehead. Mr. Louis took this colt from J., B. Respess out of a selling race at Hamilton about ten days ago. It is understood that Mr. Knebelkamp acted for Mr. Respess in the matter. News from Kentucky is that J. E. Madden has mated the stallion King Hanover to some of his choicest marcs at Hamburg Place. One of R. T Wilsons best yearlings, a colt by Broomstick Lady Navarre, broke his leg while galloping .in his paddock a week or ten days ago and was destroyed. James P. Boss, superintendent of the Lexington track, was an arrival this morning. His mission here is to interest horsemen in the stakes to be run at the Kentucky Associations fall meeting and ho will probably remain for the rest of the meeting. Harry Meyers, a prominent Cincinnati politician and a friend of J. B. Respess, arrived today and was a visitor at the track this afternoon. Fourteen yearlings, eight by The Commoner and six by Lord Estcrling. arrived from The Edemvold Farm near Nashville. Tenn., last Friday. They are the property of Walter 0. Parmer and will be sold privately during the present week. There are a couple of extra good lookers among the lot, a brother to Ida Ledford being a favorite with horsemen who have looked them over. The following is a list of the layers in lino: Frank Tyler, C. Walters, Lee Wagner. George Cafferetta. E. J. Ryan. W. Beverley. M. Harris, Ed Colell. Sam Stephens. M. C. Lewis. H. Hanff, Al Hanff, George Zeller. Oharlcs Pcnn, J. Spillane, Sam Frank, Gene Austin, John Mellingcr, John Lewis, C. Porter, Henry Haines, A. Slessinger. C. W. Watson, A. R. Klein, M. Wolff, II. Stickler, M. Boasberg, I. Hammer-schleg, John Monohan, H. Regan. T. J. Shaw. Eolo Pearsall, P. J. McGrath. C. Pritchard, M. Marks and Roy Offutt. J. S. Ward returned yesterday from Kentucky, where he has been looking over some yearlings. Jack Lory of Memphis was an arrival, as was Phil Hyams, who has been spending a month at Atlantic City. John Howard returned from New York after an absence of a month and Col. R. T. Holloway, who has become a regular on the Canadian circuit, was also seen on the clubhouse lawn. Society folks from Detroit were well represented about the club enclosure aud fully 350 automobiles were parked there.
