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CHANGE IN WINDSOR GOING HEAVY DOWNPOUR LEAVES THE COURSE HEAVY AND WITHDRAWALS ARE MANY Southern Maid Is Returned Winner of Edwenwold EdwenwoldStakes Stakes Without Serious Opposition Attempt Attemptto to Poison Flabbergast Fails Detroit Mich July 17 The races at Windsor this afternoon were run under lowering clouds and oven a heavy track Interesting contests re Miltcd horsemen and the public having an excellent line on the mud runners as was evidenced by th afternoons results which showed six of the seven favorites first at the finish Some of the winners were held at exceedingly short prices but in these instances they appeared to outclass their oppositiou and it was a case of any price being a good one Amos Turiiey took two purses OIK with Flabliergast and the other with Hustling Prass Both were at oddsoii and faith had to be hard ridden to score by narrow margins marginsThe The EUeuwohl Stakes was robbed of much of its interest by the withdrawal of Hoots and Saddle and Vandergrift With these two scratched it re ¬ moved all opposition to the Davies entry Southern Maid aiid the latter ruled a prohibitive favorite The race proved little better than a good exercise gallop for Southern Maid and she won hard held by half a dozen lengths Czar Michael and John I Nixon both of which were added starters finished second and third as named namedThis This was the third running of the Kdenwold Stakes Its brief history is as follows Year Winner Wt JocKej Val Time Timeiill iill Moisaut Ill G Hums Oir l02f 1012 Leocbares 105 Butwell ir 103 i 1913 Southern Maid 115 W Knapp 1157 1OJ Hearts of Oak added another to his long list of victories in the opening race a dash of one mile for Canadianbred1 Hearts of Oak outclasses all of the Canadian breds shown during the past few years and when he is not overweighted is almost rtaiu to win In todays effort he showed rare TUUy as a mud runner and won with much In Reserve ReserveThe The committee of the Canadian Hacing Associa ¬ tions met this morning but little business was trans ¬ acted aside from the licensing of trainers and UKkeys The suspension against jockey Deronde was raised but the lad was lined 50 for striking Snyder witlt his whip in one of the races rnu on the closing day at Kurt Erie The recommendation by the Fort Krie stewards that jockey Turners mounts lie confined to the horses of his employers Amos Tnrnev and William M Martin was confirmed This means that Turner cannot accept outside mounts in the future The lads handling of Carl ton C and Hlacklord in particular was far from pleas ¬ ing to the officials Cross handling of Dynamo also came in for criticism as did W Wards hand ¬ ling of a couple of horses horsesThe The following is a list of the licenses granted at todays meeting meetingTrainers Trainers H C Airhurt J It Adkins J S Bald ¬ win W II Baker H K Campbell James S Evor man J W Foreman George Ham T P Hayes William Hurley W O Joplin John Lowe H louden J H Mead 1 J Miles L A McGroarty Hobert McMillan J F McCanlev H S Newman William Perkins H J Powers Kay Speuce W J Speirs and John Walters WaltersJotkeys Jotkeys W Andress J L Callahan H Goose Ted Koerner J MeCahey K Martin W W Taylor F Teahan and A Shipton ShiptonH H i Hedwell arrived from Hamilton this morning with Prince Ahmed Billy Venderveer and Patou PatouGreen Green B Morris arrived from Porter Ind as did Kay Spend They had four horses between them themAn An attempt was made last night to poison Amos Tnrncys racer Flabbergast the colt that won the mile dash at Windsor this afternoon One of the stable hands on his return from town last night at aliout I oclock saw a man come out of Flabber gasts stall just as he reached the stable Some of the men about the stable were aroused and on enter ¬ ing the stall a silk sponge soaked with i slimy gray substance was found at the stall door The culprits evidenty had been frightened away before the sponge could be inserted into the nostril of the horse The grounds were searched but to no avail Detectives have been put on the case but it is doubtful if the guilty ones can be caught as the description given of the man seen running away from tin stable was meagre meagreCarroll Carroll Held was a visitor at Windsor today hav ¬ ing morningJohn arrived from Cincinnati this morning John Hcardon was claimed out of the seventh race by H G Martin for 1350
