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MACKENZIE HORSES IN WINNING FORM Buckhorn and Melton Street Score a Double for Wealthy Canadian at Fort Erie Track Buffalo N Y August 9 The colors of R T Mackenzie the Winnipeg millionaire were in the limelight at Fort Erie again this afternoon His Broomstick threeyearold Buckhorn was winner of the mile and a sixteenth handicap while Melton Street handily disposed of a good band in the fifth race The track was in a slow condition following heavy rain in the early morning and the Mackenzie equine stars demonstrated their mud running pro ¬ clivities to advantage Buckhorn had little trouble iu repeating his performance of the previous after ¬ noon and spreadeagling his opposition won in a canter from Amos Turneys Flabbergast and Adair and Bakers Samuel R Meyer MeyerMelton Melton Street got up in the closing strides of his race to win from Ymir The Mackenzie horse was the medium of heavy support by his connections Jenny Geddes the 5 to 5 favorite ran disappointingly and was never prominent during the running runningFollowers Followers of form evened their score with the lay ¬ ers this afternoon live first choices winning The attendance was far below the expectations of the management the smallest half holiday crowd of the present season being present presentK K W Moores Joe Stein an outsider in the bet ¬ ting caught the judges eyes first in the opening dash a selling affair at threequarters The Ivan the Terrible juvenile Hodge running in the colors and interests of F J Coleman romped home an easy winner in the twoyearold allowance race while Birdie Williams won her first purse for J W Schorr in the other juvenile race Joe Knight upset calculations in the sixth race when he won in a drive from the wellbacked Hoffman and Right easy easyPrior Prior to the running of the races this afternoon W H Collins disposed of the twoyearold Hodge to F J Coleman The terms of the sale were private J W Hedrick sold Mileage to Gnllaher Bros BrosAs As an aftermath of the scandal at the recent Ham ¬ ilton meeting it became known this afternoon that a number of trainers were warned off the tracks of the Canadian Racing Associations Those affected by the latest edict of the governing body are Eddie Hathman Luke Le Blond and Thomas Shannon ShannonJockey Jockey Willie Hopkins departed for his home in Vermont last night nightW W R Engstrbm who had charge of the ring at the recent Coeur dAlcne meeting and also later operated at Butte was among the arrivals today and joined the ranks of the local layers Frank J Shannon and George Zeller came in from Saratoga Springs and cut in this afternoon afternoonThe The stewards have begun a rigid investigation into the running of the race won by Caper Sauce yester ¬ day Jockey Tealian who rode Havrock is charged with having interfered with jockey H Gray the rider of Sarolta by striking both the horse and rider with his whip during the backstretch racing racingThe The stables of G M Johnson and F J Grefer have arrived at Windsor from Butte Jockey Charlie Peak accompanied the Johnson stable C W Gasser another arrival from Butte is negotiat ¬ ing for the services of jockey Buxton for the Windsor meeting meetingJockey Jockey Gross who was injured during the Hamil ¬ ton meeting was at the track today and stated that he would not ride again until the Windsor meeting meetingHoffman Hoffman was claimed out of the sixth race by J C Gallaher for 1000
