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RAIN DETRACTS FROM WINDSOR RACING. Celto Takes the Feature Race — Barnepat Wins the Teciimsch Handicap with Ease. Detroit, Mich.. August 10. — A heavy rain, which toll be*ot» Hto h wee went to the posl for the hist race, turned the track at Windsor into a lane of mud. The change to heavy going resulted in untnei ous withdrawals. The urogram in its original shape was a good one. but the absence of the best hor ■ entered, robbed the racing of some of its Interest. Uood contests resulted, however, and iii several tf the finishes the winners were under hard driven. Iie of the eleven end red for the Ontario parse, the feature race, wet" scratched. The .1. S. T.vreo stable furnished the winner in Celto. which beat Hat-hard a length. The Widow Moon started out with her usual dash of speed, but collapsed after they had gone live eighths and at the end failed to linish among the irsl three. The mare was a heavily backed favorite. Harnegal scored a Tandy victory in the Tecum seh Handicap when he beat Fountain lay. Incidentally it was the second parse that the Watklna stable has won on the Canadian circuit this season. Among the visitors here today was II. D. Br04n who arrived from the west yesterday. Mr. l.r w u is on ins way to I.uflali and Toronto, where be will remain for several days. He will lie at Saratoga next week and from there will go t i New Sort p. sail for Havana. Mr. Btowa SB houneed that a force of men would be tint to work on the track at Marianao on his arrival in Cuba. The track has settled and will l»e regrade.l and eight inches of sand spread over it. During the summer tin- lamlsraiie gardeners have been it w oi i. and a gnat number of palms, shrubbery and II .wet-beds have boon set out and all of the : ppt i !;• a to the course have been beautified. The CuIkm government has pnaaed a bill donating ;,ooo to a stake to be known as the Cuban tJrand Nallot 1 Handicap. The slake «ill be divided as follows: 0,009 to the tirst horse. .,000 to the second horse and ,000 to the third. Mr. Brown will announce his plans for the meeting when lie returns to the United states. H. 1.. Laudeinan of Lexington, and former sheriff •I. Hammond of Hamilton County, came up from Kentucky to enjoy a tew days racing. Jockey Joe Notter tofl tonight lor Saratoga. He was recalled by .lames Kowe to ride Regret in a stake race tomorrow. Notter will not return and in the event that either Hollow or Slumber II sluts during the meeting inekey Phil Goldstein will have the mount. Albert Simons has arranged to leave with the division of the L. S. Thompson stable that he is racing in Canada for Belmont Park at the conclusion of the Windsor meeting. He may dispose of a couple mote honea before having. •I. B. Campbell was a visitor here today. He will have tomorrow for Saratoga in the interests n the slakes to be run during the fall meetings at I.atonia and Douglas Park. W. L. Lewis has s-ciired tirst call on jockey .1. Acton lor the remainder of the Mason, ending -with the fall meetings in Kentucky. Jockey F. Cooper, the promising apprentice who has been riding but forty six days, torn already scored tifty tour victories in that time. Kay Bpenee has decided to take in the meetings at Ottawa and Montreal. He has arranged to snip Hodge and others in his stable from Windsor on Saturday next. The twelve yearlings belonging to the Hendrie estate have been purchased by Sir John S. Hendrie. They are by Voter, Charles Kdward. Martinias and Harvey They are now being broken at the II -:i-drie farm near Hamilton, W. Cottrell. who is here in charge of the string owiud by c. l.. Blackford, dtopoaed of two atari: buses today. lie sold the two-year-old Wanco to George F. Rlchlngs and Marigold to .1. A. Damr.i-cbelle. Cottrell will return to Oklahoma and take up the band of yearlings by Meelick at the Blackford farm. He will probably race I hem at JTuarec Dr. Lanick will ship the .1. S. Tyree stable from here to Havre de Grace al the conclusion of the meeting. W. It. Mizcll will also send his string to tin- Maryland track from here. The following horsemen will ship to Kentucky next week: P. M. civill. .. c. Cahn, Gallaher Bros., S. M. Henderson. J. o. Keene. W. L. Lewis. .L Livingston, M. U wenstein, R. McMillan. T. P. Hnyes, I B. Bespess. W. Cer-t and .1. D. Stevens. Howard Qots and Francis .1. Pons will send a division of their stables to Ottawa; the remainder Will be Bea4 to K ntuck; .
