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PLUMS FOR HORSEMEN AT WINDSOR. More Than Seventy Thousand Dollars in Overnight Races Alone in Fourteen Days. Figuring expenditures in overnight purses ulonc nt an average of for each race, the Wiiulsop Jockey Club will award to horsemen that compete at its plant July 11-21 and August l.",-22 more than 0,000 in fourteen racing days. This amount is exclusive of a little more than 0. 089 that has been apportioned in stake and baadicap races, the foremost of which is the Frontier Handicap. 0,000 added. During the fourteen days of racing there will be ninety -eight races ,f all descriptions decided. Ten of these are the fixtures, leaving eighty eight overnight baadicap and selling races. Tie- total amount to be distributed exceed- §168,800 by 00. For the minor races the total rewards will be 0,000, the average of for them reaching that figure. Every day of the fourteen there will Im- at b-ust six of those affairs, days on which a fixture is scheduled drawing that many. Me— is. Hendrie and Farmer, president and secretary respectively of the Windsor Jockey Club. have. as well as making the stake events attractive, planned to encourage the small fry owners to show their cetera at the pioneer track in Windsor this year. At no time in the past has the Jockey Club, internationally known through its lateral policy in dealing with horsemen, approached the rewards it will give in return for their ■■apart this year. Next to the Kentucky Derby, the Frontier Handicap will be one of the most valuable handicaps in America, worth more than most of the similar races anywhere else on the continent. In addition to the Frontier there will be the Windsor Jockey Club Handicap. $."..000 added, and. eight fixtures that will have no less than ,000 added money each. If money will appeal to campaigners of racing stables as the club anticipates, it will be the greatest season in the organizations history.
