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RECOIL WINS THE FEATURE FIRST IN A FORT ERIE RACE IN WHICH DR. LARRICK IS A FAILURE. Track Heavy but Drying Out — Port Light Wins Luckily — Jockey Rice About Ready to Ride — Windsors Purses Tempting Owners. Fort Erie. Out.. August 9. — Recoil, racing in thu colors of the ThornclilTc Stable, ai counted for the feature race a; Iort Brte this afternoon, a dash of one mile, with .m added. It was a handicap and Recoil was favored bv weights, getting in at 88 pounds. Ridden by A. Claver. lie followed the pacemakers to the homestretch, then move,! up • n the outside aad, disposing of The Widow Moon, easily arlttotood Iardiiers challenge. The latter was on the outside for the entire way and ran a bit further than the w inm r. The disappointment of the race was Dr. Lariick. which dropped out of contention after being a contender for five-eighths. The race; were run over a drying out track, thai araa heav on ih • in-ile and last on the outer part. There was a path about titteeu feet wide and the Majority of the winners took to it in the home-stretch. Toe rloatsl finish of the afternoon eaiuo with the running of the third race, a dash of tive- .itid a half luilongs for two Year olds, in which I.. it Light jiiM saaaaged to last long enough to scramble home 1 nose in advance of Tar Brush. The latter finished with a lush after Working his wa] through on the inside in heavy going aad in an other stride past the finishing mark he was in front of the winner. Jockey Ted Rice, who suffered painful injuries an the result of a fall while riding Phil I agar at Dorval Park last spring, is back in the saddle again ami galloping horses every morning. Rice hopes to be in condition to ride at Windsor. If. L Bedwell will probably sell Runway and Barly Light. A Canadian, who is in search id material for Steeplechasers, has secured an option on both horses. Howard Oots has taken over the horses owned by J. . . Thomson and will train them in the future. The string includes among others the useful racers Argent and Omnia. Oots succeed-, W. s. Trevy. who t.mk the horses over from Jeorge Cochran last summer. J. S. Ward has decided to give Dodge a rest and will ship the colt back to Kentucky at the conclusion of the Fort Erie meeting. Dodge has no further engagements 011 the Canadian circuit. flic offer lag of . 700 overnight purses by the Windsor Jockey Club is said to be attracting the attention of some horsemen at Saratoga. Horsemen who came back from Saratoga report that the two-year old Oeorge Smith has trained down and is fully 151 pounds lighter than he was when lie swept everything before him in Canada. The selling race feud between James Arthur and Sam Louis, which broke out when the latter boosted Encore, was continued today after Margery had won the opener. Louis bid the filly up $:tlHl over her entered price of 8B8B, but Arthur retained he.. M. I.eRoy has sold the steeplechaser Velsini to W. Obernesser. Leltoy part hailed the horse from Mike Daly before the latter shipped to Saratoga. t;. II. Keene received instructions from his brother Jack, who is racing at Saratoga, to ship the Keene string from here to Windsor and at the conclusion of that meeting to Douglas Park. T. Iendergust of Kansas City, a well known racing enthusiast, was a visitor this afternoon.
