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WINDSOR FINISHES CLOSE LEOCHARES QUOTED AT 1 TO 6 IS BEATEN A NOSE BY MOVING PICTURE Font Scores by a Similar Margin Flora Fina Is IsReturned Returned Winner of Overnight Handicap in inWhich Which Plato Glass Races Disappointingly Detroit Mich July IS Stirring contests were tin1 order it Windsor tins afternoon The smallest of margins separated the first two in several in ¬ stances This was especially true of the Moving Picture an I Font races The judges could have hung up the numbers of leochares ami Tillies Nightmare ami there would have been no complaint The steeplechase also furnished an exciting finish Itacewell coming from hehind to beat the iioorlv handled Jaek Dennerleu a head in the final stride The strideThe sixfurlongs allowance raee for threeyear olds furnished the biggest surprise of tiic afternoon Moving Iietnre from the Holtert Davles stable beating the 1 to i favorite Leocharcs n nose in a sinewstraining liuisli With The Widow Moon scratched Leochares appeared to be in a soft spot and so certain did some of the big operators feel that the Schorr horse would win that they made the layers rub the 1 to 5 quoted and at post time the odds were a point less Leochares and Moving Pic lure rared like a team from the start with tho colt on tile inside and the lilly lapped on him Leochares had a slight advantage until well around the far turn where Moving Picture showed in front for a stride or two At the end Lewhares faltered while the tllly going on with great determination ontgamrd him and got tho decision by the narrowest of margins Ian Zareta was close up at the tinisi and ran a better race than the chart showed Plate showedPlate Glass again proved a disappointment His people were confident that lie would win the feature race a mile and a sixteenth handicap for which Flora Fina ruled an even money favorite Plate Glass threatened to make good by going to the front and setting a fast pace until well inside the llnal furlong where the filly caught and passed him and at the end drew away into an easy lead Plate Glass quit and Samuel It Meyer beat him for second money The steeplechase proved an amusing contest It was a series of mishaps right from the start Vlieii the horses reached tho post Murilla reared up and unseated McAfee She was caught only to break away again and after some little time had been wasted in an attempt to catch her tho race was started without her After taking the first jump ami while racing on the Hat Die liold stepped in a hole and broke one of his fore ¬ legs The African the oddson favorite hit one of the jumps dragged his hind legs over it and then quit Jack Dennerleu then took the lead but at the eleventh fence ho pecked and threw his rider on his neck Pearce managed to scramble back in the saddle but at the end Jack Deiinerlen faltered and Kaeewell got up in the final stride to beat him himSeveral Several horses changed hands during the afternoon at private sale J W Dayton purchased from Amos Turney the threeyearold lromoter with the idea of developing him into a jumper Plunk also from the Turney stable was purchased by 1 M Cooper Edward McHrlde bought Gold Cap back from T W Hedrick The latter took the horse from McBride out of a selling race at Montreal Sam Louis sold Working Lad back to Herman Moesel aud the two yearold Osaple to Vrancis 1 Pons Louis then purchased Judge Monck and Heal Star from W J McDermott McDermottCharley Charley Kovrner a crack rider on the Hat a few seasons back hud the mount on Dlebold in todays steeplechase It was his lirst mount on a jumper jumperTin Tin visitors at Windsor this afternoon included Commodore W J Connors who arrived from Buf ¬ falo on his yacht Mary Alice this morning Gen W It Haldemati of Louisville Jack Lory and Otto Stlfel StlfelA A It London secretary of the Hamilton Jockey Club is expected here tomorrow to allot stalls to the horsemen who contemplate racing at the Hamil ¬ ton meeting which follows that at Windsor WindsorW W Livingston has been engaged as trainer bv J W Hedrick He succeeds I 1 Bradtield
