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FEATURELESS PROGRAM AT FORT ERIE Easter Lily Takes Lenox Hotel Handicap Cana ¬ dianBred Race to Yorkist FOUT EKIE Ontario July 9 An ordinary card offered for the sixth day of the meeting attracted another good sized crowd to the Fort Erie course this afternoon The weather was ideal for racing and the track a big improvement over that pre ¬ vailing for the last few days but the public showed little aptitude in picking the winners with the result that longpriced ones marched down with regularity regularityInability Inability to fill the Inferno Handicap for Cnnu dianbreds which was to have featured the pro ¬ gram brought about the substitution of a claim ¬ ing race for horses bred In the Dominion and the shifting of the Lenox Hotel Claiming Handicap originally carded as a supporting number to the principal position on the card Easter Lily carrying jockey F Bryson in the colors of the Thornclffo Stable won the Lenox Hotel Handicap and paid 4320 on a 2 ticket Keep finished second and Freemautlo third The winner was kept close to the pacemaker through ¬ out moved to the front on the far turn and fin ¬ ished with plenty iu reserve Keep came from far back to land second place as did Frecmantlu for the short cud of the purse purseThe The Canadianbred race went to A V Thomas Yorkist with Salvatelle in second place and Old Pop third Jockey Haunter rode the winner York ¬ ist was badly outrun for half a mile but moved up around his opponents on the far turn and won going away awayK K D Williams reports the loss of the three yearold colt Music Man by Martinet Cascabel The celt was stricken witli pneumonia and died while a veterinary was removing him from the track trackJockey Jockey H Thurber will be in the hospital for several mouths as a result of injuries received to his shoulder W McKinney for whom Thurber was riding says he probably will engage Pickens to ride the E T Zollicoffer horses regularly regularlyThe The horses of J S Tyree including the useful Dr Joe will bu sent from here to Benning to be tested for the fall racing in Maryland MarylandM M Loweitstein has sold James to B B Rice and Melodrame to Bosco The latter is a daughter of the Jjroodmani ilelodrum rr Mnck Garner returned to the saddle today after a three days suspension suspensionJ J P McGpvern intends to ship the Maryland Stable to Empire City at the conclusion of this meeting here Irbys horses will be shipped to Hamilton for a two weeks rest 1 W Pauilc will ship three head of horses from iluipire City to T Hodge at Windsor
