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DEVONSHIRE PARK MEETING AT AN END. Big Attendance and Heavy Speculation Features of the Closing Afternoon. Windsor, Out., October 7. A crowd of about S.000 persons visited Devonshire Park todav, the closing day of the inaugural meeting of the Western Racing Association. Speculation in the pari-mutuels was the heaviest of the meeting and, as a result, the prices paid on the various winners were liberal. The meeting has been a grand success. Although the plant was not quite completed when the meeting opened, it has gradually been finished and will bo in fine order for the second meeting, opening October 28. Kdward Tribe arrived last night and assumed the duties of starter today. He got the fields away without any marked delay executing in the second race, for which u number of bad actors were entered. It was reported today by trainer J. S. Whatley that his consistent plater. Two Royals was badly cut down yesterday. Whatley will ship the horses in his care to race at Kenihvorth next week. W. A. McKinney and J. C. Fcrriss will ship their stables from here to Latonia tomorrow. They have both been successful at this meeting. Most of the other stables here will remain over for the Kenihvorth and Devonshire second meetings. The feature race today, a handicap at one mile and a sixteenth, was won by H. L. Grains Star of Love after a hard drive through the stretch. Greenwood ran a game race and might have won riders reversed. R. L. Frazier claimed Foxy Griff for ,700 from J. J. Coalter.
