Windsors Attractive Program: The 0,000 Frontier Handicap to Be the Star Racing Feature of Its First Meeting., Daily Racing Form, 1920-05-11

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WINDSORS ATTRACTIVE PROGRAM The 10000 Frontier Handicap to Be the Star Racing Feature of Its First Meeting DFTKOIT Mich May 10 Undaunted by the excessive government tax levied on the tracks un ¬ der and outside the pale of the Canadian Kacing Associations of which it is a member the AVind sor Jockey Club plans the greatest season of rac ¬ ing in so far as the value of stakes and handicaps go ever conducted in the Dominion of Canada CanadaOn On July 17 the gates to the pioneer racing in ¬ stitution across the river from Detroit will be opened for the lirst time since midseason of 11117 11117That That Messrs George M Hcmlrie and AValter Parmer have not rusted from idlcniss or feel any misgivings that the renewal of the sport In Can ada will need nursing is attested by their willing ¬ ness to take a chance that the public will rally again to the sport and by admissions if nothing else help in defraying the expenses expensesTherefore Therefore without hesitation the Windsor Jockev Club will this summer at its first meeting alone distribute more money in stake races and liandi CJPS than it ever has before beforeDuring During the first seven racing days that com ¬ mence July 17 the club has pledged itself to dis ¬ burse 25000 in added money the famous Frontier Handicap leading this respect with 10000 added and will be for threeyearolds and over at a mile and an eighth eighthFollowing Following in order arc the Canadian Handicap for threeyearold Dominloiibrcds at u mile and an eighth tin Provincial Handicap for twoyear olds at five and a half furlongs the Essex Handi ¬ cap for threeyearolds at one mile Each of these events will have 50 IO in added money moneyNext Next to the Kentucky Handicap the Frontier Handicap is one of the nist coveted turf prizes on the North American continent now and it is freely predicted that the greatest array of thor ¬ oughbred stars in the races historv will be nom ¬ inated inatedIn In addition to the galaxy of attractive stakes and handicaps overnight pur v in excess of 1000 will abound with the principal object of the man ¬ agement to induce the foremost stables in tho country the Cnited States as well as Canada to come and cut into the inonev


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