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DUKE JOHN FURNISHES A SURPRISE Comos Back After His Fall on Tuesday and Wins Main Race at Fort Erie FORT ERIE Ontario July 7 Duke John came back to tlu races today after his fall of yesterday and dealt the talent a severe blow by winning the llridgeburg Handicap ate a mile and a sixteenth for threeyearolds and over Well ridden by jockey Pitkens Duke John carried the colors of E T Zollicoffer to an easy victory over Prineeps the favorite Clean Gone finished a ixior third Duke John paid 17i on a twodollar ticket Pickens rated the winner behind the pace of the favorite until the turn into the stretch was readied when he called on his mount and the sou of Ivan the Terrible responding drew away into a commanding lead and maintained it to the end j winning by two lengths Prineeps although tiring slightly held Clean Gone safe The latter was al ¬ lowed to drop far out of it in the first half mile and could not catch the leaders when called on onJockey Jockey McTaggarts riding was a feature of the afternoons simrt He opened the card by bringing home Frivol in the lead of a band of twoyear olds and followed this immediately with victories on Keep in the second and Uncles Lassie in the third McTaggart also landed second with Lady I5inmore in the fourth fourthHeavy Heavy rains which drenched the course through ¬ out the night and morning left it in bad condi ¬ tion Only the thoroughly fit horses were able to win through the heavy mud mudJ J 15 Campbell one of the stewards of the meet ¬ ing will go from here to Windsor to serve as handicapper and judge at the Windsor Jockey Club meeting meetingMajor Major Thomas W Campbell of New Orleans is visiting his brother J 15 Campbell here hereIke Ike Tullet has shipped his stable to Windsor WindsorPhil Phil White one of the niutuel calculators was called to his home in 15altimore last night follow ¬ ing the injury of his son in an automobile acci acciJ J H McDonald will ship Our Little Ann to E W Fitzgerald at Montreal at the conclusion of the meeting here and will send Sugarmint and Stepson to Empire City Jw p Innn ilkisiilt io l to ship TrapBliot o Empire City in the same car with the McDaniel hordes hordesII II Neusteter has arranged for the transfer of Old Sinner to Windsor WindsorEdward Edward Trotter announced that he will ship the Florisant Stable to Empire City at the end of the racing here hereJockey Jockey E Donahue from a photograph has identified the horse which ran as Little Hoy in the ringer incident at Ottawa as the same animal which ran under the name of Little I5oy and was ridden by him in Kentucky last spring springArthur Arthur Campbell D P Stevens Walter 15urke and Murray Shilling leave tonight for Montreal to assist Sam Spencer in the mntiiels at Delorimicr Park
