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MUD RUNNERS GET A CHANCE Heavy Showers Fall at Windsor and Track Condi ¬ tions Change Hearts of Oak Takes Handicap Detroit Mich August 21 The mud runners had an opportunity of showing their merit at Windsor this afternoon for the first time during th meeting Heavy showers fell about noon and the going soon became muddy As the afternoon progressed the footing became worse as the time would Indi ¬ cate Small fields ruled but despite this form players found the task of picking the right ones a ilillicult proposition and the days results showed only two winning favorites favoritesThe The Giddings colt Hearts of Oak showed a good performance in the Canadian Handicap a dash of one mile He picked up 130 pounds conceded lumps of weight to everything iu the race and won in a canter by three lengths lengthsThe The Canadian Handicap dates hack only to 1010 and its brief history is as follow Year Winner AWt Jockey Val Time 110 Denharn i 121 Foden 70 140 140i i JJll Denuum 7 125 lcCahey 805140 8051401I12 1I12 Ilaviock 4 107 Loftus 805142 1013 Hearts of Oak KiO W W Tor 1155 140 140The The other feature u selling handicap at one mile went to Jenny Geddes which came from behind In the lengthsHodge stretch to beat Elwali a couple of lengths Hodge scored his fifth straight victory when he made a runaway affair of the fifth a dash of live and and a half furlongs for which he was an oddson favorite He was ridden by Small and was in hand most of the way wayWayne Wayne O Joplin is another Kentucky horseman who has changed his plans about going south He will ship his stable from here to Ottawa and con ¬ tinue on tht Canadian circuit during the remainder of the season He has arranged with Jockey Obert to ride for him at Ottawa The latter however will go to Porter for a few days daysGeorge George Ham Bob McMillan and A L KIrby havo arranged to ship to Lexington ou Monday next Kirby will take a division of J B Respess horses with him Mr Respess himself will go to Ottawa with a few horses On his arrival in Kentucky Kirby will take up several horses that are turned out at the Respess farm and shape them up for winter racing He will probably go to Charleston with them themThe The following horsemen shipped from Winilsor to Porter this aftennoon A D Steele J K Allen Bob Campbell Capt W F Cisco C W Gasser and Howard Oots OotsWillie Willie Shields announced this afternoon that the horses he is training for T F Ryan and L J McGraw would be sold at auction at the conclusion cf the Ottawa meeting meetingBefore Before leaving for Porter A D Steele sold the racer Battling Nelson to W P Fine FineWalter Walter O Parmer found it necessary to post ¬ pone the sale of his yearlings until tomorrow owing to the heavy storm which came up just prior to the time disposalA set for their disposal A M Orpen was the guest of Santo Sotile at a dinner tonight It Is said that Orpens mission here had something to do with the taking over of the Charleston track As yet the deal is to IK closed but in the event of Mr Orpen purchas ¬ ing the stock held by Francis J Pons and others the management of the track will he placed In the hands of II D Brown BrownC C 0 Smith was a visitor at Windsor this af ¬ ternoon iu the interest of the coming meeting at Ottawa privilegesTrovato where he controls the ring privileges Trovato winner of the seventh race was bid up from COO to 1105 by Sam Louis and J W Ifedrlck but was retained
