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GOOD RACING EXPECTED AT HAMILTON. Many Good Horses at the Track and Ready for Action Gossip of tho Course. Hamilton, Out., July 25. The second and final meeting for the season of 1010 of tin; Hamilton Jockey Club is scheduled to begin tomorrow. Secretary Loudon has provided a good program and it is predicted that the meeting will be equally as successful as the one which preceded it. The feature races for tomorrow include tin; Prince Edward Selling Stakes, for three-year-olds and over at one mile and a sixteenth; the July Sidling Steeplechase; the Royal Canadian Handicap, at one mile, and the Han ford Handicap, at three-quarters. Other stakes to be run during the meeting are the Nursery Plate, for two-year-olds at three-quarters; the I!ra:itford Selling Handicap, over the turf course, and the Hamilton Cup. at one mile and a quarter, with .1110 added. The other stakes will have ,500 added. Steeplechasing will be featured. There are a great number of jumpers here, probably seventy-five. Several stables from Kentucky will participate in the meeting, the most prominent of which will be the string of Jerome J!. Rcspcss. Jockey T. Parrington has entirely recovered from his recent illness and will resume riding here tomorrow. J. 1. Misick and former jockey James Watley are arrivals from the half mile circuits with their stables. Three big special trains bringing horses from Windsor arrived today and there are more horses hen; than for the first meeting. The only big stable missing is that of II. J. P.edwell, who went to Chicago from Fort Erie. A number of the purses have been increased to 00. The horses in the Mrs. L. A. Livingston stable have rounded to form, and some of them should cut an important figure at this meeting. Jockey M. Anderson is here with tlie P. Sheridan stable and will be seen in the saddle during the meeting. lie has recovered from the injuries sustained as the result of a bad fall at Ottawa last spring. William Garth, who has been at Saratoga looking after the horses he has there, returned to Canada to take up the division of his stable that has been at Hamilton resting. At the conclusion of the Saratoga meeting Crimper may be shipped to Canada to fill his stake engagements on this circuit. Fred Williams is to ride the Garth jumpers in the steeplechases here. W. Allen is also here ready to ride. The Hamilton mooting will give an opportunity for the working out of a change in the selling race rule, under which a winner, when claimed, will cost more under the original rule by tin; value of first money. At present, under tin; rules prevailing, all selling races are simply claiming races, unless it is provided that tin; winner be sold at auction. There has been no request from the horsemen in the matter, though there is much discussion and difference of opinion as to the best procedure, and the Hamilton Jockey Club has decided to eliminate the auction feature from all unclosed selling races, except the handicaps. The announcement by secretary Loudon reads as follows: "In all unclosed selling races to be run during the meeting, excepting selling handicaps, where it is a condition of the race that tin; winner shall be sold at auction, the selling clause is hereby eliminated and all horses starting in a selling race, including the winner, shall be liable to be claimed for the entered price plus the value of the purse to the winner." The officials will be the same as at the first meeting.
