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j I I ; i ANITA OUTPACES FAST JACK 0D0WD. Back Bay an Easy Windsor Winner — Borrow Goes Back East — Track Gossip. Detroit, Mich.. Aug net 17. li. ;. Bedwell, whose horses are ju particularly good form just now. m furnished the winner of the Essex Handicap fhis a. afternoon in his pood filly Anita, which beat Mile -! stone by a hall length after making all the pace, r The Ksscx Handicap was the feature race ot be T program offered by the Windsor Jeekej « int.. it - was a dash of five and a hull furlongs for two- J year-Olds and the field included all of the best 2 youngsters here. Heavy support developed for .lack ODowd, a ceil that T. 1". Hayes brought up from 2 Kentucky, and Jack ODowd threatened to make 2 good until straightened out in the homestretch, 2 where he began to tire. Ill the early |milllni he 2 raced head and head With Anita and it was only in 2 the final eighth that he gave up the struggle. 2 A sprinting handicap at three-quarters divided 2 interest with the two year-old race. Back Bay 2 led all the way and won with speed in reserve. 2 Callahan hail the mount on Back Bav and it do- 2 voionoii that I". Sheridan has naaoanced that Met-calf would net tide tor him in the future. An unsatisfactory ride on Back Bay, when the hone was beaten by The Widow M on. resulted iM the ii release of Hetcall from the contract Mr. Sheridan n hold on his servpes. - I h, re will he a ml I ting of the stewards of the ,, Canadian Racing Associations in the clubhouse at ? Windsor tomorrow. Cits Quick, a well-known follower of tlie sport, was an arrival from New York this morning. He = is here as the j;iiesl of William I.. Oliver. C 11. Keene. win. is racing a divisi.n of the Koine stable at Windsor, has arranged to ship the i stable from here to Kentucky at the oonelusion of the meeting. Mr. Keene. in partnership with his j brother. .1. . Keene. owns the Kecnelanil Farm, g near Lexington, ami will take up ten yearlings he j has on the farm upon his arrival in Kentucky, j One of the band is out of the dam of Jacoba. j There are thirty mares at the farm, some of them j of the most fashionable breeding. J. . Keene is i great student of blood lines and he has used great care in his selection of stud matrons. The stakes for the fall meetings at Churchill I iw us. Latonia. Douglaa Iark and Woodbine close I tomorrow. Frank Bruen is looking after the in- ! forests of Latonia and Douglas Bark, while Gene Flrod ami Harry F. Breivogel are attending to the Churchill Downs stakes. Joseph McLennan will accept entries to the WoouMmB stakes from horsemen iiere. Albert Simons has shi-ed the good handicap horse Borrow back to James Rowe at Saratoga. Borrow | left this morning in an express car accompanied by , a couple of attendants. Tr»tn r F. W. Footer was fined %lTt by the stew- ; arils for the Inconsistent use of blinkers on the two- J year-old Galeswtathe. J Videt. winner of the first race this afternoon. was bid up from to ,199 by J. A. Cil.soii and was retained by his owner. Sain Bonis. ■Award W. Moore today purchased from Walter Banner the four two-year-olds Jack Beeves. I.ill Simmons, Jim Grundy and CoL Slaughter. Among the prominent visitors noted on the club- house lawn were B. Kirk Bankin. Ned Adams, .lark Beeves and Wade Kirkpatriek. These gentle men arrived from Nashville yesterday and were guests of Messrs. Banner and Hendrie. They will remain for the rest of the meeting. "Kid Weller. formerly a well-known layer and a one time partner of the late Joe Illnian in the operation of one i f the biggest lnioks ever made on tin- American turf, was a visitor at Windsor this afternoon. Mr. Weller i- on his way home to hi- ■ ranch mi the Hood river in Oregon. H. J. Bedwell reports that his useful plater Pardner is down with a slight attack of fever. The horse has responded to treatment and is im proving. Mr. Bedwell is thinking seriously of send lag all of his horses ti in here to his farm at I iiii.l Ml., to Ih- fresbeiie.l for the fall meeting ; Bt Havre de Crace.
