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PARMER MUCH PLEASED WITH SARATOGA. Expects Nine Hundred or More Horses for the Second Windsor Meeting:. Detroit, Mich., August 8. "Saratoga is having the greatest racing meeting these days since the attempt to kill the sport which was made nine years ago," remarked AAalter O. Parmer, secretary of the AAindsor Jockey Club upon his return from there this morning. "No gayer place in this union exists at this time than the fashionable watering resort in New York State. Racing lias come back to its own there, and the crowds of fashionables and the wealthy have flocked there to enjoy the sport. It is u renaissance in racing, the most optimistic have wished several years to witness. During his stay at Saratoga. Mr. Parmer superintended the annual sale of the yearlings owned and bred by himself and associate. George M. Hendrie at the Edenwold Farm in Tennessee. "The prices for the thirty-eight head sold were gratifying indeed and somewhat ahead of the sums received for similarly bred thoroughbreds last year at the same track A colt by Star Shoot Ohiyesa, tlie star of the sale, brought ,700, Richard F. Carman being tlie purchaser, while a couple of Plaudit colts and a youngster by Sir John Johnson brought creditable prices. The Beverwyck Stable bought tlie sou of The Commoner Hortensia, a brother to Commensia and Marianao, which ran one-two in a race at AVindsor the other week. Several of The Commoners get, his last, brought exceptionally good prices." Mr. Parmer said several of the stables now racing at Saratoga will be shipped to Windsor for the second summer meeting starting August 10. "The easterners regard the AAindsor meetings as being tiie most animated and best patronized of any held in the middle west and they like Detroit as a summer stopping place during the races across the river," he added. "The steady advance in the purse offerings here is a strong lure to the owners at the Spa. the same as at all other points in the country. Few meetings, if any, offer purses of and a daily handicap of ,000, as is tlie case with the AAindsor Jockey Club. "AVe expect to house in the neighborhood of 900 horses for "the coming meeting, which will be nearly 300 more than we had for the first summer week. This will provide sufficient to arrange a program each day that will surpass in attractiveness any the opposition might provide."
