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BACERS FLOCK TO AYINDSOR HUNDREDS OF HORSES NOW QUARTERED AT CANADIAN TRACK OPPOSITE DETROIT Starter Bade Comments on Evidences of Wonderful WonderfulPopularity Popularity of Racing in Canada Windsor WindsorMeeting Meeting to Be No Exception Detroit Mich July 9 Four hundred horses ar ¬ rived at the Windsor track yesterday ami today Iliiin Kurt Krle where they raced last week The advance guard for the summer meeting across tin river aro already here Many owners trainers and attaches of the various stables arrived by boat Mon uay morning and every train has since Illought its quota quotaStarter Starter A 15 Dude who will handle the harrier at Windsor as usual was among the early arrivals lor the meeting which is to start on Saturday next Mr Dade has had unusual success in Ills starting this season He olliciated at the harrier in Toronto Montreal Hamilton and Fort Erie and at each track was in rare form There has not been a murmur against the starting at any point on the Canadian ircuit tills year I have done the starting on the Canadian circuit for many years said Mr Dadt last night and have noticed the size of the crowds Increase each season Hut this year the throngs al the tracks have exceeded by thousands anything ever witnessed in the past The sport of racing is surely mere popular than over before ou the Canadian cuirsfs cuirsfsI I look for no exception to the rule at Windsor where of course the patrons come from Detroit anil the American side of the International boundary J believe even the most optimistic will be surprised Jiy the size of the crowds that will turn out for the IllieK here next week weekEach Each year the Windsor meeting has l een growing in importance but for the coming meeting prospects j re iKtler than ever before A handsome new steel grandstand has replaced the old structure and with imiiiy other Ininrovements the course is made thor dglily modern in all of its appointments appointmentsfor for the coming sevendays session the sort or lurses that will take part are of letter duality than In former years and the manner in which the var jous stakes have tilled suggest that they will he keenly contested For the opening day the feature will be the Frontier Handicap one mile and an Jab with Ocean Hound Plate Class Froglegs Star Charter Kound the World Countless Bob II Mill more than thirty others among the eligibles eligiblesSo So far as the twoyearold division is concerned It has been half a dozen years since the youngsters lIble for the stake contests have been of the qual llv seen this season With one or two exceptions ieeplcchasing will lie a feature of the daily card of even or more races The steeplechase course has beiii improved improvedThe The Pontohartrain Stakes to be run on Wednes ji v inlv 17 is at thrcenuarlers of a mile Hel ¬ met Lady Irma Bettie Sue Vreeland Moisant Ben Loyal Cherry Seed and other useful platers are eli ¬ gible gibleTiie Tiie Detroit Stakes for twoyearolds one of the oldi t of the Windsor fixtures has sixty nominations The Edenwoid another juvenile stake promises a jrreat contest contestOn On the closing day of the meeting Saturday July 0 tl 1 C will be the feature This race at popular distance of one mile has sixtyone nomi
