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j 3 1 , , : ; FORT ERIE RACING NEAR MEETING TO OPEN TOMORROW WITH EVERY PROSPECT POINTING TO SUCCESS. Many Fino Racers in the Valuable Dominion Handicap, with Borrow, Boots, Rancher, All Smiles Pif Jr. and Others Expected to Start. Fort, Erie. Out., August 3. With the meeting of the Hamilton Jockey Club at an end, the stables that have been patronizing the Canadian circuit meetings were transferred here today enmasse. Three special trains arrived during the day from Hamilton laden with horses that will participate in the meeting of the Niagara Racing Association, scheduled to open on Saturday. There already was a considerable colony of horses at the track before the arrival of the Hamilton contingent, quite a number of stables having remained here since last months meeting. Naturally interest as to the opening days card is centered in the valuable Dominion Handicap with ,000 added at one mile and a quarter. The field promises to be the best sent to the post in Canada this year and will embrace, Oscar Lewisohns Boots, fresh from a successful campaign 011 the New York tracks; Harry Payne Whitneys Borrow: G. M. Hendries Rancher; E. T. Zollicoffers All Smiles, winner of the Hamilton Cup yesterday; R. L. Bakers Pif Jr. from Kentucky; It. J. Austins Commonada; W. It. MizelFs Itobert Bradley; M. C. Moores Marion Goosby. and others that hav.e been racing on the circuit. Horsemen v.-ho have been following the Canadian circuit are looking forward to a wonderfully successful meeting at Fort Erie. The recent meetings at Windsor and Hamilton were remarkably well patronized and there seems to be every reason for believing that the approaching meeting here will be the most prosperous in the history of the Niagara Racing Association.
