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SOME WORDS . ABOUT DEVONSHIRE PARK. Martin Nalhanson has been a busy man for several mouths, in carrying out his many Canadian engagements, but he managed to slip into town for a few-days and, in a talk yesterday, made it manifest that he is au enthusiast in regard to the prospects and possibilities of the new Devonshire Park track, near Windsor, Out., of which he is to be the presiding steward and racing secretary. "It is a bully track," said he, "wide and with easy turns. It has the best of soil and is bound to "be fast when settled. We have the best of water front a fine artesian well and no horseman could ask for better in that important essential to the health of the horses. "Our buildings, are well advanced and will be in readiness when our first meeting opens. Part of the stables are completed now and the others soon will be. We will have ample accommodations for more horses than we expect. We have secured thirty-two pari-mutuel machines, twenty-six through the courtesy of the Dorvul Park management and six elsewhere. They will be brought to our track for installment directly after the close of the Dorvul meeting. y- "We intend to give high-class racing. For our meetings of this year we are bound to rely on purses alone. Owners already had their horses engaged in Kentucky and Maryland and we could not hope to secure many of the real stake class. Next year we will offer a program of stake races that will appeal to any owner. In the meantime our purses for this years racing will be on a liberal scale. None will be of less than 00. and many -will be or 00 and 00. Our card for September 30. the first day of our first meeting, provides five SHOO purses, one of 00 and one of 00, or a total of ,500, which is pretty fair for so late in the year. "Our first meeting runs from September 30 to October 7, inclusive. Our second will cover dates from October 28 to November 4, inclusive. It is our plan and intent to make Devonshire Park lacing second to none in the Dominion. There is plenty of room and patronage for the three mile tracks across the river from Detroit. Forty-two d-ivs of racing is lv no means excessive for such a "large contiguous population, and no pains will lie spared to make Devonshire Iark comfortable nnd popular."
