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AVINDSOR BIGGEST CROWD THRONG OF RECORDBREAKING PROPORTIONS SEE RACING AT CANADIAN COURSE Prince Ahmed Wins Pontchartrain Stakes in Thrill Thrilling ing Finish with Rifle Brlgaae Texans Hit HitLayers Layers Hard on Two Winners Detroit Mlirli July 11 The Pontcbartraiu Sell jng Stakes which was featured Itv the Windsor Jockey Club for its Saturday program resulted in one of the best contests ever run over the AViudsor truck All oC the tea carded went to me post and less than two lengths separated llv if them at the finish 11 G Bedwcll furnished the winner hi the veteran Prince Ahmed which was starting for the tirst time since the Havre ile Grace meeting last spring In his thirteen previous efforts Prince Ahmed had failed to win lie showed a good performance this afternoon Coining from behind and working his way up ou the outside lie closed with a rush in the home ¬ stretch and just mannged to get in front in the iinal stride to beat Hide Brigade a nose York ville was third a head away and then came Liberty Hall and Grosvenor The latter ran the best race of all Young Wilson got him mixed up In a jam at the half mile post and was forced to take him up until he was last of his Held He finished fast and was rapidly overtaking the leaders leadersThe The history of the Ponehartraiu Selling Stakes tirst run for in 1007 is tabled below Year Winner AWt Jockey Val Time 1U7 fantastic 3 101 Morcland 115 1150112 190S Billie Hibhs 100 V Burton 115 1009 Merrick G 112 S Davis SCO 114 3910 Lady Irma 4 111 J Henry SO 112 1511 Follie Levy 4 110 Kennedy 015 l13f 1912 Helen Barhee4 112 Loftus 013 115 1151Ji 1Ji Irince Ahmed t 11 Deromle 1153 113 113Another Another nose finish came with the running of the fifth race in which Henry Hutchison got up to biat the maiden Karl of Savoy In the last jump The mile handicap also furnished a stirring con ¬ test in which Cliff Edge just managed to last ling enough to withstand the challenge of Just Ked Ivliich came from behind iu the stretch and finished JiUo a lion Jnbu Ueardon starting for the first time iu the colors of his new owner It U Milltin wai a distant trailer iu the earlj stages and inuiltV up nnuch ground at the end But at that he was l st stThe The Texans made themselves felt during the afternoon They put over a good thing in the second race in Useeit and followed it up by winning the sixth race with Mother Katciiam Both horses were heavily backed ami the layers probably paid out more to these than on any oilier dayThe two winners of the day The attendance this afternoon exceeded by far that of tlie opening day The crowd was the largest that ever witnessed racing over the Windsor track Over 500 automobiles were parked in the enclosure set apart for machines and Detroits most exclusive set was well represented in the club ¬ house enclosure where the attendance was especially large largeThe The association is making an effort to bring together some of the best threeyearolds here and with this end in view a special handicap race luis been arranged for Wednesday next to which 700 will be added The conditions call for a dash of one mile and four of the eight entered must start The following are those to whom weights have been assigned Kuskiu 110 First Sight 112 Demirail IDS Flabbergast 107 Great Britain 100 Barnegat 104 The Widow Moon i 9 and Benanet OS OSThe The condition blanks for the stakes to be run at Churchill Downs will be distributed among the horsemen on Tuesday next when they are ex ¬ pected here from Louisville LouisvilleThe The steeplechase which was to have featured next Tuesdays program has been declared off and a race for maiden threeyearolds and upwards substituted substitutedJockey Jockey Eddie Taplin wired from New York that lie would be here on Monday ready to accent mounts mountsSam Sam Bradley and S Shimpsky were among seven iicw layers who cut in at todays drawing In all there were fortylive books in line a record number for the meeting meetingAllan Allan I Steele arrived from Porter Ind this morning with his horses His son jockey 15 Steele will be here tomorrow and will ride on the Canadian circuit until he goes to Saratoga to rejoin the Camden stable stableA A big delegation of the trotting horse contingent visited Windsor this afternoon among them Jack Murray of Iexington J Healey who is handling Hie trotters of the Ihiladelphian Mike Murphy and Nat Uay UayJockey Jockey W Andress left for his home in Kentucky this afternoon to rest for a couple of months monthsGeorge George Semi formerly associated with Hugh 1euny and one of the biggest plungers that ever eiuno out of St Louis has resumed operations after an absence of a couple of years Senn threatens to purchase another string of horses provided hu can engage Penny to train them
