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HORSES DEPARTING FROM FORT ERIE. Fort Erie, Out., July 13. It was shipping day at the Fort Erie track and big train loads of horses departed, the heavy consignments being those to Windsor, where Canadian circuit racing will be resumed Saturday with the running of th! Frontier Handicap. Attention across the river will now be devoted to preparations for the second summer meeting, which will follow those at Windsor and Hamilton, opening August 5. for a seven-days meeting. At that time the Dominion Handicap, with 000 added, for three-year-olds and over, one and one-quarter miles; the Iroquois Hotel Stakes, with ,500 added, for two-year-olds at five and one-half furlongs, and the Edward AV. Mnginn Memorial Handicap, with ,500 added, for three-year-olds and over, one and one-sixteenth miles, will be contested. At Windsor a splendid meeting is anticipated. It is announced that there will be no lack of horses, despite the fact that the meeting will be paralleled by the Hawthorne racing in Chicago. Many horsemen have gone to Windsor from Latonia and some of Kentuckys best will compete with the Canadian circuit stars in the ,000 Frontier Handicap. Turf folk are paying not a little attention to the coming Chicago meeting, for it is appreciated that in the event of a successful renewal of the sport, a new racing field of importance will be opened.
