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GOOD CARD AT WINDSOR FINAL MEETING OF SEASON AT THAT CANA DIAN COURSE TO OPEN TOMORROW Good Horses Ayailable for Racing in Spite of Compe ¬ tition with Other Points Local Conditions Favorable for Successful Meeting Detroit Mich August 24 Windsors final uieel ing for the season of 1912 will begin on Monday The association has provided an excellent card for the occasion the program being made up of seven races with the Ferry Handicap as the feature The association adds 2000 to this race while the smallest amount added to any of the overnight purses is COO The races are well balanced arid keen contests should be seen Many of the promi ¬ nent owners have entered liberally and provided the track remains in its present condition highclass sport will be witnessed witnessedDespite Despite the oposition at Havre do Grace a large gathering is here to participate in the meeting The hotels in Detroit are well filled and but few faces from among the regulars are missing Mortimer Mahoney in charge of the betting ring has appli ¬ cations from about thirty layers for positions Tho association has IKKMI particularly fortunate iu that there will lie no counter attractions here next week The baseball team is on the road and with two holi ¬ days for two of the seven days of the meeting large crowds should bo in attendance About 350 horses are on the grounds and with a majority of them ready to race there should be no lack of ma ¬ terial satisfactorilyThe to fill the races satisfactorily The latest stable to arrive was that oC Francis J Pons whose horses came from Fort Krie this morning In the lot were the good twoyearolds Judge Wright and Jack Kellogg both of which promise to develop into highclass racers Mr Pons himself arrived from Tennessee this morning after spending a couple of weeks on his farm which is located on the Gallatin Pike seven miles from Nashville He has five homebred yearlings that are now being broken They are the get of his own mares by The Commoner Lord Ksterling and Dr Bootli Next season he will have foals by the Star Shoot stallion Great Heavens and the Sain horse Tony Bonero BoneroThere There will bo a meeting of the Canadian Racing Associations in the clubhouse at Windsor on Mon ¬ day next The cases of jockeys Ambrose and But well will be reviewed and several other riders probably standingThe will lx restored to good standing The Edenwold yearlings owned by Messrs Parmer and Stone arrived from Tennessee yesterday and will be sold on Monday night They shipped in good condition and will be on inspection until sold soldNegotiations Negotiations are said to be under way for thp transfer to August Belniont of the contract that Edward Garrison holds on jockey Ferguson
