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1 J i • j : ] j I ! t * ; i I 1 r f 1 t i r s - t 1 . ■ r " s BORUOW IN FRONT AGAIN VETERAN WHITNEY STAR DEFEATS HODGE AND RANCHER IN A CANTER. Venetia Proves Herself a Fast Filly — Windsor Meeting Opens with a Great Attendance and Good Track — Taka Has a New Owner. Detrf.it, Mich.. August 14.— Borrow, aged son of Hamburg and Forget, owned by Harry Payne Whitney, and running in the colors of L. S. Thomp son, added the Detroit and Windsor Perry Co. Handicap to the list of notable victories he has scored this year when he beat Hodge and Hancher and won in a canter by three lengths at the Windsor track this afternoon. Borrow, ridden hy Joe Notter. was rated behind the leaders under stout restraint until Notter found an opening on the inside when Bearing the quartet-post, where he went through with a rush and raced int.. a decisive lead in a sixteenth of a mile. The contest was over as they straightened out in the homestretch, when- Notter again took the big horse under restraint and at the end he was lighting for his head. Hodge, which made several challenges in the race in an effort to get to the front, easily disposed of Rancher in the last smarter. The hit ter quit badly and his race was a distinct disap pointmeut. It is just possible that the horse i-besl on a hard track, such as prevailed at Fort l.i ie on the closing day of that meeting. The track at Windsor today was a tritle dull as a result of rain which fell during the night. This was the seventh running of the Detroit ami Windsor Ferry Co. Handicap, which has been growing in favor and value with each succeeding year. its condensed history follows: Year. Winner. A.Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1000 All Red :5 97 C. Ross . . .,l.riiJ 1 :4 iy- Ittltt Fort Johnson. u 10t; Tapliii 770 1:43% JtHl Plate Class..." 117 T. Rice 1.15-j 1:38% 1912 Bnckhorn ...:j 102 Teahan 1,490 1:4."W- 1013 l.ochiel .". 102 Beaton 1.830 1 :4.V- 1!H4 Nightstick ..4 113 J. Callahan.. 2.230 1:401a l.ll.i BoTBOW 7 133 J. Notter .. 2,."i20 1:47 Run at l mile prior to 1012. Windsors second meeting opened under most favorable auspices and an Immense gathering was •n hand to witness the sport. Predictions are that it uii! exceed in paint of iinporta nee that of the first meeting, which was the most successful in the-clubs history. All of the overnight purses this afternoon were of 00 value and the stake carried r-.ll added value of $.!.MMI The Ste. Clair purse, second in importance only t.. tin stake race, went to P. Sheridans greatly improved lilly Venetia. which won with much speed in reserve iron-. Kewes-a. Harry F. Preivogel was a visitor at Windsor this afternoon. He is a recent arrival from Laurel. Where he attended a meeting of the directors of the Maryland State Fair and Racing Assooiati m. Incidentally. Mr. Kreivogel is interesting horsemen in the -takes to be run at Churchill Downs and I.aurel this fall. Laurel has come out with an imposing list of fixtures for its fall meeting. During the twenty si days of racing, seventeen stakes carrying an added gross value of ."i.0 tO will be run. The National Handicap. .."i K added, one mile and an eighth, is the principal fixture. Mr. Rrei-vogel announced that the purses at Laurel thfcf fail would be increased in value. At the conclusion of the Windsor meeting he will leave for Saratoga. Albert Simons today disposed of the two-year-old lilly. Taka. to George Seiin. The latter is in the market for several more useful horses for a campaign at one of the winter- tracks. His sprinter. Cardigan, is rounding to after a let up. Tyree Hates, at one time a well-known breeder of Tennessee, is a visitor here. He is one of a big patty of Nashville iieople that came to Detroit to take in the races at Windsor. Walter Tearce cam. up from Louisville to take in the opening day of the meeting. Mr. Pearce is busy preparing the condition books for the fall moet- htgl at Douglas Park. Churchill Downs and Latonia ami they will be ready for distribution among the horsemen about September 1. John W. Murttschell today purchased Kali Inhi from 0. I.. Blackford and his intention is to make a -i. ■ plechaser ..t him. W. P. Fine shipped the two year old Revero to TL i. P.edwell- farm near Laurel. Mil., where he will be rested up uutil the opening of the fall meetings in Maryland. P.edwell sent Khvah. Lady Lightning and Nellie B. to his farm from I, it Erie. Jockey- R. Shilling has been released by i. W. Scott and I lu- boy is now riding as a free lance. His engagements are being looked after by Frank C,ar- rett. The latt.-r ha- arranged to take forkeya Buxton and Kederis to New Orleans next winter. There will be a meeting of the stewards of the Canadian Racing Associations in the clubhouse at the Windsor track on Wednesday next. Between Is has ix-eti placed on the schooling list by starter Dade. The conditions- books lor the Montreal Jockev Clubs fall meeting at Blue Bonnets arrived this morning and were distributed among horsemen bv Joseph McLennan. The latter is doing good mission ary work for the club and many of the owners of tiie best stables racing in Canada have promised to participate in the racing there. Frank J. H.iien, wh i is looking after the inter-r ests of the id a -American Jockey Club, expects H. D. Brown to be at Windsor some day during the litter part of the meeting, when some Important announcement regarding racing in Cuba next winter will be made. The race won by Venetia was privately timed in 1:12-. by several watches and tjie closing race was similarly timed in 1:54.
