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HOPE TO ATTRACT FOREMOST STABLES. Aim of Windr.or Jockey Club in Increasing Value of Frontier Handicap and Other Stakes. Detroit. Mieh.. April 1.— Figuring on the pr« sumption tiiat inducements of flattering financial attractiveness will appeal to horsemen of great wealth as well as to the modest stable campaigners, this years Frontier Handicap, scheduled for decision July 14. under the auspices of the Windsor Jockey riab ought to take rank with the fart meat turf fixtures ,,f the day. By adding *HUMM to the subscription and starting fees, the ejah advances the feature of its racing season to the pinnacle of turf events in the Dominion of Canada. When the added money was but one-half of what it will lie this year, there were fifty-seven nomination for the Frontier, representing thirty eight owners. On the strength of that record it isnt un reasonable to believe that the total number of candidates named for the event July 14. will exceed by at least twenty -five the number that paid subscription fees to enter last year. Coincident with the increase in added money Came a rerlsiea of condition :. relative to the fee fixed to name a iin.lidate and increased cost of starting In I.llti an owner was required to pay SlO to enter a ho;se and Sob was the tax to start. To repeat the performance for the 0,000 feature. f2S will be asked to accompany an entry and ."i0 to face the barrier. Expect Frontier to Be Worth 3,000. Under present conditions the Frontier, presuming that then will be no less than the fifty -seven named last year and the sane- number of starters, eight, the race would be worth SlLMllW The Jockey Club has sufficient reason to betters, however, that this amount will be sufficiently augmented to raise the total in excess of 3,000. Of the cash subscribed, added and paid in as starting money the winner will get all but .M»0. which is divided between second, third and fourth horses in sums of ,500. ,000 and $."iK respectively. In other words, an owner by risking the loss of 7.1. has a chance to realize a return of close to 0,000. As the policy of the Windsor Jockey Club is outlined now. Windsor will bo a good place to visit with a formidable string. Besides stake and handicap features that will total more than 0,000 in value, the overnight purses, averaging 00, will exceed 0,400 in fourteen racing days. Exclusive of that 00,400 all told, the Windsor Double Event will be run again, ,000 to be distributed each half year.
