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WINDSORS CLOSING TODAT BELL BOY RUNS A SURPRISINGLY- G 0 OD RACE IN THE ALLIES HANDICAP. Showers Help hy Laying tho Dust Guests Predict Good Racing for New Orleans Nest Winter Destination of Horses and Owners. Detroit. Mich., August 22. A surprise attended . the running of todays feature race at Windsor on the next to the last day of the meeting when Bell Boy won the Allies Handicap in a canter, beating Fountain Fay orf by five lengths. Bell Boy -was a good horse today. In tin? early running he forced :i fast pace and raced tinder restraint to the far turn, where he easily passed Father Riley. In the stretch he drew away into a long lead. Just as the horses were going to the post for the first race heavy showers fell, but the rain did little more than lay the dust and the going remained fast throughout the afternoon. During the afternoon Judge Murphv had as guests Dr. George A. McDiarmid and Dr. ilamlett Moore. Both gentlemen expressed the opinion that a most successful meeting would again be held in New Orleans next winter. George Phillips has been asked by a prominent eastern owner to put a price on the contract he holds on the promising apprentice rider B. Kop-plemnn. Owners Pons has arranged to take Miss Waters Givat Dolly and -Meddling Miss from hen? to Ottawa. He traded the mare Dicks Pet for the two-year-old Meddling Miss yesterday. Francis Pons proposes to race Dicks Pet next fall and then retire her to" his farm near Nashville, Tenn. Jockey E. Taplin left for Saratoga this afternoon to remain a few days. He will rejoin the Bed-well Stable in Maryland. T. J. Shannon has arranged to take the two fillies that Jack McDonald purchased from R. J. Mackenzie from here to Havre de Grace. He- will also take Squecler with him. The Brookdale Stable and the- horses that John Nixon is training for C. Millar will go from hereto Woodbine Park at Toronto, where they will rest. Edward Trotter will also ship to Toronto. Ray Millar was an arrival. He is here in the interest of the meeting to be given at the new Ken-ilworth track. The following stables will ship direct to the Blue Bonnets track at Montreal at the conclusion of the meeting here: Mrs. L. A. Livingston, George M. Hendrie, A. L. Austin, W. Stormont and G. II. Keene. Former jockey W. Davis, who remained in Cuba after the close of the Oriental Park meeting last spring, wites that the track at Marianao is now a veritable paradise. The shurbs and tropical flowers which were planted during the winter months have done exceedingly well. A number of new roads have been constructed about the stables and a new entrance has been built for the road which leads from the beautiful esplanade that runs through Camp Columbia and to the course. Davis will be remembered as the- lad who rode for Sidney Paget. He has two horses at Oriental Park, Change and Ball Band. He purchased the latter at the conclusion of the meeting last soring from Logan Denny. Change is owned by a planter In Cuba. C. R. Anderson has purchased Bars and Stars from E. B. Elkins. E. J. Vivell and H. G. Bedwell have arranged to ship their horses to Maryland ou Thursday. The Canadian Red Cross Society has acknowledged, through the Hamilton Jockey Club, the subscriptions made by the horsemen ut the recent meeting held in Hamilton.
