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READY FOR THE OPENING AT WINDSOR. Big Bands of Racers Crowding In from Latonia and Fort Erie E. R. Bradleys Horses Are Ready. Detroit, Mich.. July 13. Irish Gentlemans victorious race at Latonia Tuesday was in the nature of a work-out for the D. and C. Selling Stakes, to be run at Windsor next Wednesday. J. II. IBaker wired Walter E. Parmer, secretary of the Windsor Jockey Club Tuesday morning to secure the services of jockey Lowder, for Irish Gentleman in the I. and C, which would indicate that the owner of that useful plater believes he has considerable of a chance of landing the richest selling race across the river. The closing of the Latonia and Fort Erie meetings Tuesday has brought hundreds of race-goers to Windsor for the meeting, starting on Saturday. Motor cars flitting around Detroits thoroughfares with Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and New York licenses attached indicate that manv of the owners, trainers and jockeys on the Canadian and Kentucky circuits come here in comfortable circumstances. Two hundred and fifty horses engaged in workouts at Windsor this morning and this number will be increased by at least three hundred before night, the Fort Erie brigade coming in on special trains. The Latonia horses, one hundred and fifty strong, may arrive late tonight. In this contingent will be the strings owned by J. II. and It. L. Raker, Harden and Spence, E. R. Rradley, William Perkins and many others. In the Rrad-ley group are P.lind ISaggage, a starter in tin; Frontier Handicap, and Frigerio. possibly the best two-year-old shown this year in Kentucky. The riding talent at AVindsor will embrace many of the best of the jockeys who have been engaged in Kentucky and on the Canadian tracks. Among the riders are Lapaille, Garner, McCabe, Cooper, Warrington, Rice, Robinson, Schamerhorn, Ambrose, MeAtee, Scherrer, Connolly, Gentry, Stearns, Drown, .Martin, Graves and Hunt.
