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C i is s t t 1 y i s i i l i i i i : I 1 1 i i i WINDSORS NEW KENILW0RTH TRACK. Course in Fine Order and of Ample Accommodations List of the Meetings Officials. Detroit, Mich.. August 31. An army of workmen putting the finishing touches on the newly-constructed Kenilworth Park, where racing will begin the coming Saturday. The plant, while not entirely completed in minutest detail, will not be lacking in thoroughness and come up to every serviceable expectation. The grandstand is a massive affair. 41i feet long and 105 feet wide, having a seating capacity of nearly 5,000 persons, and thera is sufficient space on the lawns to com porta bly care for 10.000 more. The mutuel betting arrangements are ideal. There is ample space for forty pari-mutuel machines, though only thirty will be used on the opening day. Directly to the right of the mutuel machines is space for fifty cashiers. On the opening day there will be forty cashiers employed, and additional ones if required. In point of equipment this track will surpass all other Canadian courses when fully completed. .Manager A. M. Orpen. has not been sparing in expense to make the plant a modern one in every detail. The transportation facilities to the course will be tin? equal of any iu the country. The Michigan Central has arranged to run special trains on a half hour schedule after 12:30 p. m. direct to the grand-stand. The running time for tiiese trains will be twenty minutes from tin; Detroit station and the fare for the round trip will be twenty-five cents. In addition to the train service, the Interurban road which passes the grandstand, will run its cars from nearby the Windsor Ferry on a regular schedule and nuto-mobilists will find a good road to the track. There is airple parking space inside the grounds for machines. Secretary W. R. Norvell stated this afternoon that there are now nearly four hundred horses quartered at the track and more are due to arrive tomorrow and Saturday. Among the prominent horsmen who will race here are: J. B. Respess, A. L. Kirby, P. M. Civill, W. II. Fizer, F. J. Pons. G. Alexandra, II. G. Bedwell. J. J. Mark-lein and W. T. Anderson. The track itself pnmiss to be lightning fast. It has long stretches. To safeguard against accidents the fields in all races will be limited to twelve starters. In surveying the track a 10-foot mistake was made : nd the ellipse is at present sixteen feet over one mile. In all races under one mile, those of one mile and twenty yards and in those of one mile and seventy yards the correct distances will be run. but iu r.ices at one mile and iu those of a mile and one-sixt-enth and over the horses will 1 have to run sixteen feet more than the scheduled route. The racing officials for the meeting will comprise the following:. Kd Cole, presiding judge and steward; Malco:n N. Macfarlane, steward; W. A. Hewitt, steward: P. A. alien, associate judge; W. R. Norvell, racing secretary, clerk of the scales and associate judge: Frank McGinity. starter; C. Woods, patrol judge. The mutuel department will be in charge of Eugene Elrod, assisted by Fred Hinkel and Des Dresden. The following rule, pertaining to claiming races, will lie in effect at this track: "All horses entered in selling races or selling handicaps, including tin winner, are subject to be claimed for the entered price, plus the purse, by owners or authorized agents only that have a horse in the said race. Horses claimed out of a race must remain the property of the claimir for thirty days." 1 I 1 1
