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ANOTHER WINDSOR TRACK , i LAND BOUGHT FOR A NEW COURSE NEAR THE PRESENT ONE. Strong Organization to Operate the Enterprise and Will Ask Membership in the Canadian Racing- Associations. Unless something unexpected intervenes to prevent it. Windsor is to have an additional race track or tracks. The neeessary buildings and equipment in general are to he finished in time la permit two meetings of seven days each, one hy midsummer and the other in the fall. The location of the proposed plant is on a farm adjoining the Michigan Central Railway and the Suburban Electric Kaihvay. which runs trom Windsor to Leamington. It is situated about two and one-half miles from the ferry dock at Windsor and aboat three-quarters of a mile from the present Windsor track. The area of the land purchased is about eighty- five acres and is of triangular outline. Two mile traeks have been surveyed on the tract, but whether one or both will bo finished and used is undecided. The names of those behind the undertaking are said to be Charles Millar, the rich Toronto lawyer, wboae colt Tartarean won the King"s Plate at Toronto last May. and is heavily interested in the Havana, Cuba, track with H. D. Urowu: H. I. Brown, of the Havana track, A. M. orpen and Thomas Hare, owners of the Dufferin Park and Hillcrest half -mile track at Toronto and the King Edward track at Montreal. A charter of a club lias boos revived, which gives the right under the lhuninious laws to conduct, on any incorporated clubs track, fourteen days of racing in any one year in two meetings of seven days each, which must lie at least twenty-one days apart. It is proposed by the interests controlling this charter to apply for membership in the Canadian Kaciug Associations.
