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WINDSORS STAKE OFFERINGS THIS YEAR. The Windsor Jockey Club has issued its summer prospectus, which calls for six stakes and the two futurities, the double events of 1913 and 1911. In the cours • of the Two meetings, July 18 to July 22 and August 10 to August 23. ninety-eight races will be run at Windsor, which means a cash distribution of nearly 00,000. The daily *«■*• offerings average 00 and are the largest in average ever hung up by the local jockey club. Fur the six stakes, exclusive of the two double events, the money offered is 4,500. The value of the Frontier Handicap, the big event of the first day of the July meetiu;j this year, will be in the neighborhood of 1916.sh,500, the added amount being ,000 or SI. 000 in excess of the added value of the stake last year. The distance of the Frontier will be a mile and an eighth as usual and the announcement of weights the day before the race. The augmented Frontier amount enables the Windsor Jockey Club to advertize for nominations to a stake which is more important from a financial viewpoint than any other decided on the Canadian circuit with but two exceptions, the Kings Plate and the Toronto Cup being those exceptions. The I. and . Stakes, at a mile, has a cash valuation of ,500; the Edenwold. for two-year-olds at five-eighths has ,500 added, and silver plite to the owner of the winner; the Ferry Handicap, at a mile and a sixteenth, has ,000 added: the George Hendrie Memorial Handicap has ,000 added, and the Canadian Handicap has ,500 added. In addition to these fixtures the second half of the Windsor Double Event for Dominion foals of 1913 will be run, which calls for ,500. silver plate and fifty per cent of the subscription fees up to the running of the first event for then two-year-olds. Should the race be won by the same horse that captured this race as a two-year-old last year, the owner of such horse will receive an additional ,000. The other Futurity will be the Windsor Double Event of 1914. the two-year-olds to contest it this year and the same entries to contest it next year as three-year-olds. The values of this race run about the same as the Doubl" Event of 1913. By reason of the liberal stake and purse offerings. Secretary Panne;- says he expects a larger number of eastern horses nominated to the Windsor Jockey Club fixtures than ever before. Entry blanks were mailed Saturday to representatives of the Jockey Club at Howie, Md., the Kentucky tracks and to New York. The dates assigned the Windsor club are practically the same as it has had the last four years. Three Saturdays are included in the assignment but no special holidays. The stake entries close Thursday, May 11.
