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SEAGRAM COLORS LOWERED. BELLE MAHONE LOSES GREAT CONTEST BY A NECK IN PROVINCIAL SELLING STAKES. John S. Hondrio Furnishes the Winner in Lone Land, Well Ridden hy Jockey Mink Fourth Straight Victory for Obolus. Windsor, Out., July 19. The races at Windsor this afternoon were run over n drying out track ando the change in footing upset calculations. A race which called for Cnnadian-breds, the Provincial Selling Stakes, with ,000 added, at three-quarters, was provided as an attraction and it furnished a splendid contest, in which the first half dozen finished in a compact hunch. Sir John S. Ilendries Lone Land proved the winner under a good ride hy Mink. lie came from behind and beat the favorite Belle Mnhone by a neck in a driving finish. Obolus scored his fourth straight victory and his seventh win on the circuit, when he beat No Manager in the fourth race, for which Leo Skolny was a 4 to 5 favorite. The race was a selling affair and Obolus was bid up from ,100 to ,005 by P. Knebelkamp. Maims were made by W. Smith, Bert Williams and W. C. Weant for Leo Skolny and in the drawing the former secured the horse for ,830. It. L. Baker was an arrival from Kentucky. Mr. Bakers entire stable, including King Gorin and others, was shipped to Lexington at the concluson of the Latonia meeting, where they will be rested until racing is resumed in Kentucky next fall. It had been erroneously reported that Mr. Baker had seiit his horses to Saratoga, j Jockey C. Knight Indefinitely Suspended. Jockey Cecil Knight, according to Judge Cole, was suspended Indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the best interests of the turf. It had been sent out from Toronto that the boy had been suspended only for the meeting. A notice was posted in the secretarys office Avarn-ing .horsemen not to ship to the Lexington track, unless they lmd been notified that stalls had been assigned to them. W. MeDaniel shipped the Thorncliffe Stable horses ... ..to Toronto tonight,.,, to takepart In- the meeting at the "new course "near that "city. The entry of Harry Shaw was ordered refused for his fractious behaviour at the post. Among the new arrivals were judge Ed. Cole, who will be in the stand at Kenilworth, also Oscar Buchman,, Mayer Cohen and Norman Macfarlane. The latter came up from Montreal. The Macfarlane horses will remain at Windsor during the month of August. The entire stable will then be shipped to Lexington. A prominent Detroit follower of racing who contemplates going into racing,, is making an effort to purchase a few good horses and it is understood, that he has made an offer to John Whitlow for the fust three-year-old Westy Hogan.
