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SURPRISES AT FORT ERIE. HANDSOME DIVIDENDS PAID TO BACKERS OF WINNERS OF FIRST FOUR RACES. M. Lowensteins Theodore Fair Defeats Well-supported Favorite Kuklnx in Niagara Selling Stakes Easy Victory for Westy Hogan. Fort Erie, Ont., July 7. Surprises were again in order at Fort Erie this afternoon, the winners of the first four races paying .their backers handsome dividends. In the Niagara Selling Stakes, a dash of five-eighths for two-year-olds, M. Lowen-stein furnished the winner in his colt Theodore Fair, which beat the heavily-backed favorite Kuklux out by a scant length. Theodore Fair showed a good order of speed and outran his opponents from the start, withstanding several challenges from Kuklux in the first half. At the end, the favorite tired and Theodore Fair won, going away under punishment. The race was marked by quite a bit of roughing, in which Kuklux, Charley Leydecker and Prince Igor suffered. The Niagara Stakes has been run each year since its institution in 1907, its list of winners and other details being as follows: Year. Winner. Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1907 Grande Dame 115 D. Boland .,150 1:01 190S Marse Abe 123 V. Powers . 1,150 1:00 1909 Eye White 115 Musgrave .. 1,150 1.00 1910 Solid Comfort . .105 Musgrave . 1,150 1:02 1911 Gold Blade 105 C.H.Shilling 1,150 1:01 1912 Judge Wright ...108 Musgrave .. 1,150 1:00 1913 Southern Maid ..115 W. Knapp. 1,155 1:02. 1914 Crystal 108 W. Obert . 1,155 1:00 1915 Pesky ill G. Burns .. 1,940 l:08y5 19K! Bondage Ill L. McAtee . 2.020 1:02 1917 Theodore Fair ..108 R. McDott. 2,170 1:00 Pretty Baby showed a good performance in the opening race, coming from last place to beat Cobrita out by three part of a length. Westy Hogan inade a runaway affair of the fifth race, a. handicap. Crumii took him under restraint after racing into a long lead in the first quarter, and at the. finish he led Skeptic by eight lengths. Joseph McLennan, the racing secretary at Laurel, left .for New York tonight to confer with Manager M. J. Winn relative to the plans for the fall meeting at the Maryland track. On ills return Mr. McLennan will have some important announcements to make to the horsemen. Laurel is one of tho popular tracks in Maryland. - Schorr Yearlings to Be Sold at Saratoga. John W. Schorr was -a visitor at Port Erie this afternoon. His stable was shipped from Latonia to Saratoga. He was accompanied by Frank Coleman, of Memphis. Schorr announced that the twenty-nine yearlings that he is interested in, will be sold by auction during the Saratoga meeting. All but five of them are foreign-rbred. Claims were put in for the two-year-old filly Pretty Baby after she won the opening race by G. Knebelkamp, II. G. Bedwell, W. W. Darden, George Phillips and E. McBride. In the drawing Darden secured the filly, but the stewards ruled that his claim was invalid for the" reason that he was associated with Kay Spence in the ownership of a couple of horses. Darden took exception to the ruling and he was told by the stewards that they would be pleased if he appealed to the Canadian Racing Associations, so as to establish a precedent in the matter. The filly was awarded to Knebelkamp, who secured her for ,250. Claims were lodged by K. Spence aud W. Smith for Leo Skolny and in the drawing K. Spence secured him for ,750. The H. II. Hewitt stable will be shipped from here direct to Saratoga at the conclusion of the present meeting. W. L. Oliver received a telegram from New York that stalls had been reserved for him at the Empire City track and his horses leave here on Wednesday next. H. Neusteter leaves with his string for Windsor on Monday. The apprentice rider Bolton accompanies the stable. Leo Skolny ran in the name and colors of J. J. Troxler, who claimed the horse after he won on Wednesday last.
