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| I NO DOUBLE WINNER OF FRONTIER HANDICAP. Windsor Jockey Clubs Popular Race Never Won . by Same Owner Twice. Detroit. Mieh.. March S, — In the matter of competitive history the Frontier Handicap, the Windsor Jockey Clabs 0,000 inaugural for 1917, is not unlike the Kentucky Derby. Theeaaghbred history relates that there is no record of an owner ever repeating in the quest for victory in the Kentucky Derby and the same fact applies to the Fn.ntier. the richest prize offered to horsemen who will campaign their stahles in the Dominion of Canada this season. Sixteen years sg3 St. Hera, owned hy Joseph W. Paga, chief of police of Coving-tea, Ky.. captured the first Front iei-. and from that time to the present era. without a break, a different hone and a different owner flashed aeross the herizon of the thoroughbred world locally. Several trietl to break the spell, hue the stage never was set for an encore. Some of the winners performed creditably in big events after capturing the Windsor feature, while others passed on in the natural course of events to retirement. The next year. 1903. Claude, celebrated as the iron horse, took the measure of a gsad hand after finishing second in the American Derby 111:1 over the Washington Park track in Chicago. M. J. Daly saddled Claude ami his son Johnny hail the mount. Z.irkee. bred in K ntueky and award by a resident of that reaamoa wealth, Lester Weadet, heat everything in tin- 1904 renewal and the following year George Headries Kiag of Troy, was the winner. Nashville. Tenn. claimed the honor in 1MB, Peter sterling, from the stable 1 f A. Btawa J. Co., fulfilling the confidence his own rs placed in him. Charley atcCafJerty*! laesaui succeeded to the honors a year later, then Qeorge II. llemlrio. well-known horse breeder ami president of the Windsor Jockey Cluh. satisfied a desire when Charley Gilbert stilt!: his nose past the judges first in 190S. Race for Three -Year-Olds Until 1903. Intil 190! the rate was for three-year-olds stri.t ly anil the distance was the name as now. a unhand an ighth. Thereafter the scope of eligihility was widened to permit horses of three years clover to compete. The history of the race up to the change in conditions is as follows: Year. Horse. Owner. 11I0J St. Hera Joseph W. Paga 190:: Claude M. J. Daly ISM Zarkee Lester Wtaiel l9o" King of Tray George Bendrie 1900 Peter Sterling ... A. Hrown and Co. 1907 Tat mas Charles HcCafferty IMS Charley Cilhert 6. M. Ilendrie Under the revised condition Green Seal, campaigned by I. II. Wheater ft. was the first winner Beat year Tomato was hracketed with 1laudmore as the winner. J. H. Diane saddling him. K. F. Carman, wealthy New Yorker, trietl repeatedly to land the plum, but it was not until .1911 that he realized the ambition. Meridian turned the trick for him. Soon after Carman abandoned the a natiian tracks for reasons beat known to himself. thoagh he rarely failed to make nominations for sm reedfag stakes. John W. Hchscr, Memphis brewer, was another who trietl often ami finally attained his end. Star Charter affixing the event to the list of turf achie t in. nts mm in the Sehorr interests. Star Charter with Star Bottle was the medium for :i big killing that day by hunch players who coupled the two bi-i ause of the similarity in their names, the hooks, then operating at the Windsor Jot key Club, getting a hatd scorching. H. P. Whitneys Canadian Invasion Profitable. One year later developed a winner out of the stable t,f Kohert Davies. a famous hoist man of Toronto. First sight coping am 1 eaefnTI 1 with an allotment of K« ntm ky horses for the prize. Then tame Dymcats Tippecanoe, the prize -winner of Kill. Harry Payne Whitney had more seed fortune than most of the others. Prior to IMS the wealthy easterner apparently was wttling to pay strict attention to the tracks around New York ami the south and expressed little concern over the possibilities of defraying expenses in Canada. He shipped a sti-in" to Windsor in 191."i. however, ami named Slumber II. to bear th ■ harden of winning the Frontier. His guess hit the bulls eye, as Slumber 11. was so far superior to his opponents that the ace resembled a parade. Canada produced the winner in IMC, a year in which Mr. Whitney attempted to repeat his V.~ performance with Borrow. The foDewiag is the history of the Frontier since the inception of the ft vised eligibility rules from three-year-olds to three-yeai-olils and over: Year. Horse. Owner. UH Green Seal I. H. Wheatcroft 1M0 1laudmore J. II. Donne 1511 Meridia:- R. P. Carman 1112 Star Charter J. W. Schorr 1913 First Bight Kohert Davits 1914 Tippecanoe N. Dyment l«jir Slumber II II. I. Whitney 1916 Tin, rnh ill James Barry Jockey Goldstein was the only rider in fifteen years of the Frontiers history that ever repeated. In 1910 Goldstein was astride 1laudmore ami five years later he Straddled Whitneys Slumber II. The Shilling brothers. . anil K. get braekets. Carroll in 1MB on George M. Headries Charley tiilhert ami his young kinsman achieved the honor on Thnrnhill last year.
