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WINDSOR OPENING TODAY ISED AT TRACK NEAR DETROIT Patrons of Sport to Find Plant Remodeled and in inSplendid Splendid Condition SevenRace Card Provided with Frontier Handicap Stellar Feature Detroit Mich July 12 With the people of DH troit hungry for racing the lirst meeting of the Windsor Fair Grounds and Driving Park Associa ¬ tion for the season of 1012 promises to be highly successful Interest in the sport in this locality has been constantly growing during the past few years and the local club has kept up with the timed by remodeling its plant The immense grandstand that was formerly at the Grosse Point course has been moved across the river and reerected at Wind ¬ sor This gives the Windsor track the largest and most uptodate grandstand and betting ring iti Canada Uverytbing has been fully completed and the plant is in readiness for tomorrows opening which brilliancyThe promises to be of exceptional brilliancy The club has furnished a splendid program of seven races with the Frontier Stakes a handicap at one mUe and an eighth as the feature Addi ¬ tional attractions are a steeplechase over the two mile course and an allowance race at six furlongs which will bring together some of the best sprinters on groundThe the ground The weather man has promised bright skies for to ¬ morrow and with the track In splendid condition a recordbreaking crowd probably will be in attend ¬ ance Mortimer Mahoney who Is in charge of tho betting ring here arrived from New York on Tues ¬ day and is located at Mount Clemens Several f the New York layers who are here ready for busi ¬ ness are stopping at the same place including Sol Lichtenstein Frank Howard and E J Callahau In ¬ dications are that close to forty layers will be in line lineAll All of the ollicials are on hand Judge Charles P Price having arrived from Louisville yesterday while starter A B Dade has been here for several days daysAmong Among the newcomers here are jockey Buchanan and Clem Clevering This is the first time in ii dozen years that Cleveriug has raced on the Canadian circuit The last time he was at Windsor he raced the good horse Ulysses Buchanan took out a li ¬ cense this morning and will do the riding for tho Clevering stable stableIlugh Ilugh Penny who arrived from Fort Erie yester ¬ day with W P Austins horses reports the sale of King Avoudale to E II Ames the former rider who purchased Eagle Bird not long ago These two thoroughbreds are destined for racing at Bombav India They will be shipped from Fort Erie to Boston next week and from there to India via Liver ¬ pool EngW Eng W M Northey secretary of the Montreal Jockey Club was a visitor at Windsor this afternoon He will tomorrowLovctie remain over for the opening tomorrow Lovctie which came over from Fort Erie in chargo of Tom Healey will be an important factor in the Frontier Handicap tomorrow if work counts for any ¬ thing Before leaving Fort Erie he worked a mllc and an eighth in 154 easily This morning he was brought out on the Windsor track but the best his boy could get him to do was five furlongs In 111 The blinkers were then put on him and he worked half a mile around the harrows in 47 Schuttinger will have the mount on him tomorrow Before tomorrowBefore leaving Fort Erie Mike Daly shipped Chocorua and Tom Kirby to A Henry Higginsons farm near Boston Mass where they will be schooled through the field Mr Higginson purchased Tom Kirby lastAlbert from G II Whitney on Saturday last Albert Simons has released jockey Guy Burns Simons stood by Burns for a long time and gave the lad every chance Ambrose and Butwell will do the futureThe riding for the AVhitney stable in future The Canadian Racing Associations will hold a meeting in the clubhouse at the Windsor track to ¬ morrow morrowCaptain Captain W F Presgrave purchased from Harrr Payne Whitney the promising twoyearold Ollver Lodge The colt was shipped to Montreal MontrealThe The horses of the Quincy Stable and the horses that Jack Goldsborough was handling for Thomas Monahan were shipped from Fort Erie to the Graves end track where they will rest for the fall meet ¬ ings in Maryland Textile which went wrong at Hamilton is among the Monahan lot This horse has been improving right along and it looks as 1C he againThe will stand training again The Sanfords of Amsterdam N Y will race a small stable this fall Two fillies were reserved last year and two this year for breeding purposes A threeyearold colt Cooper by Caughnawaga Retaliation was also reserved for breeding pur ¬ poses These five are being trained by H Albright and probably will race at the new Havre de Grace track In September The names and breeding of the horses that may carry the Sanford colors are Autilli b f 2 by Isldor Aranza II Bally Cliff b f 3 by Clifford Ballyroe Cooper ch c 3 by Caughnawaga Hetallatlon Isarose b f 3 by Isldor Rock Rose Lackcllir b f 3 by Clifford La Tosca II Among the workouts shown this morning were Any Port Threequarters in 119 Ballyshe Fiveeighths in 103 Buckhorn Mile in 145 Confido Fiveeighths in Ii02 Inquesne Threequarters in 119 Flabbergast Threequarters in 119 Fountain Square Threequarters in 110 Hearts of Oak Threeeighths In 30 Horron Threeeighths in 30 Kate Kittleberry Fiveeighths In 102 Quartermaster Threequarters in 110 Uncle Obie Threequarters in 119 Upright Half mile in 50 50Ocean Ocean Bound worked one mile and an eighth on Wednesday last as follows 113 120 140 153 Cliff Edge worked the same morning in 114 127 140 153 Bunch of Keys ami Burnt Candle fiveeighths In 101 Smoke House fiveeighths In 101 and Ondramon threequarters in 110
