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! 1 1 ■ • ■ 1 ■ f [ 1 : f 1 • 1 i !l l . f» l s . s 1 t 1 s • t V RANCHERS SUPERIOR SPEED WINS THE CANADIAN SPORTSMAN HANDICAP AT FORT ERIE IN FAST TIME. Fast Track and Good Weather Combine to Attract a Great Crowd — Close Finishes a Feature of the Last Day of the Meeting. Fort Erie. Ont.. August 11. Caataa M. Ilendries three year-old Rancher showed a high-class perform ance at Fort Brie this afternoon when lie won the Canadian Sportsman Handicap, beating some of the beat handicap horses in training in Canada. Kanohor was ridden by J. Smyth and. under stout restraint for five-eighths, went to the front and. drawing away into i long lead in the last smarter, was fighting; for his head at the finish. The pace was fast from the start, the mile being run in 1:37% and the mile and a sixteenth in 1:45%. At no stage of the running was tile result in doubt. Coiiimon-ada. the early pacemaker, was second and Water bass third. Ranchers victory this afternoon marked his second during the meeting. Today was the thirteenth running of the Canadian Sportsman Handicap, which was tirst run in 1903 and each year since. Its condensed history follows: Tear. Winner. A.Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1903 Albula 5 106 Minder .1. " » 1:47 I.mh War wiioop ..:; !M» Romanelll .. 1.160 1:47 1905 Hans Wagner.fi 112 D. Roland .. 1.150 1:47 CUM; John Carroll.. 4 124 W. Fischer. ■ 1.150 1 : t:» ,:, 1907 Peter Sterilng.4 115 V. Cowers .. 1,150 1:45 1908 Minnie Adams..". IPS Nicoi 1.150 1:40 unci Gretna Green. 5 Km G. Ruins ... 1.150 1:43% 1910 D. Mac.! .mild. 1 12» A. Walsh ... 1.150 1:I7:;-. Oil Star Charter..:: 103 J. Wilson ... 1.150 1:53% 1912 Plate Class. ..; 11!» B. Martin .. 1.150 1:50 1913 Donerail 3 109 Goose 1,155 1:45% 11*1-1 Barnegat 4 102 F. Coleman.. 1.156 1:52 1915 Rancher ?, 109 L Smyth ... 1.050 l:45Vf. Today marked the closing of the Niagara Racing A sso.-iaf ions meeting and an iinmciiso gathering turned out to witness the sport. Ike track was i:i latter condition than at any time this season and, Willi well balanced fields going to the post, keen contests attetided the running of a majority of the races. In the opener Late Hours beat Mi-s fay a heal. In the second rate Lady Mexican .just managed to get up ia the closing strides to nose out Hold Gap. III the third race a mishap came, just as the barrier waa sprung, iu which the heavily-backed favorite Betwen Da stumbled and unseated his rider. Jockey Joe Natter left here for Saratoga tonight t.. ride the Illy Regret in one of her engagement--. at the Spa. He will return to Windsor to ride. R. now and llarinonicou in their engagements at that meeting. Jockey fe.l Rice, who was injured at Dorval last spring, had his tirst mount sim-e his accident when he rode Waterbass in the Canadian Sportsman Han-r dicap this afternoon. Charles Cells, prominent as a bookmaker some few years back, was a visitor at Fort Erie t lii -t afternoon. Mr. Cella and his family are here on a vacation trip from SI. I.ouis. He will probably vi-it Saratoga before returning homo, J. R. Campbell, a well-known racing official. lost his pocketbook last night on a RufTalo street. Mr. Campbell is minus about .".0. James Arthur will send one horse. Baaa Around. lo Win. Nor. The maiden Charles Francis, that he was training for u. w. Feaehter. was also shipped to Windsor, F. W. Moore and H. H. Redwell were the first. horsemen to depart for Windsor al the conclusion «.r the races this afternoon. Three big special trains will leave for Windsor tomorrow and there should be no dearth of racing material for that meeting.
