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FRONTIER TO SLIPPERY ELM Old Gelding Defeats Star Racers In Windsors Opening Feature The Porter Second After Sterling SterlingPerformance Performance Third Money Moneyto to Exterminator WINDSOR Ontario July 14 Carrying the silks of the Sunnyland Stable the sevenyearold geld ¬ ing Slippery Elm favored by a big pull in the weights and the condition of the traek was re ¬ turned the winner of the valuable Frontier Handi ¬ cap the feature of an excellent racing card pro ¬ vide for the opening of the Windsor Jockey Club course this afternoon afternoonHeavy Heavy rains during the night and again early in the afternoon left the track surfaced with heavy mud Despite the threatening weather an im ¬ mense crowd assembled for the resumption of the sport and was royally entertained No exact at ¬ tendance figures were available but the assem ¬ blage easily surpassed the best of the gatherings this course was wont to boast before the war warThe The Frontier was the fiftli race on the pro ¬ gram and post time found Exterminator a warm favorite with E It McLeans The Porter next in demand while the Hamilton and Canadian Derby winner Paul Weidel did not lack supporters The public however failed to give due consideration tt the chances of old Slippery Elm always a dan ¬ gerous factor in the kind of going that prevailed today Jockey L Morris had the mount on the Sunnyland Stable standard bciirqr mid he1 kept him behind the pace set by Paul Weidel and The Porter Going to the far turn Oltrien made his move with The Porter which was apparently premature for the McLean racer tired in the final drive Even so The Porter might have won had it not been for coming extremely wide into the stretch while Slippery Elm held to the inside rail and saved much ground Slippery Elms margin of victory was a half length lengthExterminator Exterminator was always close up to the leaders and running his usual game race finished third Paul Weidel displayed fine speed to the far turn then tired The winners share of the stake amounted to 9400 9400The The Frontier Handicap has been an annual fix ¬ ture of racing at Windsor its interesting history brief Iv told being as fallows Year First Age Wt Jockey Val Time TimeAdams 1902 St Hera 122 Adams 1140 158 158JDaly 1903 Claude 127 JDaly 1385 203 203Monroe 203i i 1904 Xarkee 117 Monroe 1405 154 X XJ 1905 King of Troy 110 J Shea 1705 158 190 Peter Sterling 107 Kunz 1705 154 1907 Jacomo 114 Moreland 1705 137 if 1JOS Ch Gilbert 4 103 CII II Shilling 1535 152 1909 Green Seal 5 105 J Howard 1535 152 1910 Plaudmore 4 108 Goldstein 1550 157 1911 Meridian 3 lli T Koerner 1985 152 1912 Star Charter 4 118 Hutwell 2430 155 1913 First Sight 3 104 P Moody 2700 151 1914 Tippecanoe 3 103 W Obert 2900 158 jf 1915 Slumber II 4 124 PGoldstein 3430 152 1915 Thornhill 5 108 IS Shilling 5070 152 1917 Old Rosebud i 129 GMolesh 10025 154 1920 Slippery Elm 7 109 LMorris 9400 201 201Race Race fur threeyearolds until 1908 1908The The good Jim Gaffncy filly By Jiminy scored her fourth straight victory when she easily won the inaugural dash of the afternoon defeating among others such promising youngsters as John S ISeur rton Last Rose Eastesido and West Side SideLancelot Lancelot which had raced well at Devonshire Park annexed the second race in which old Pullux was considered best but failed to run up to ex ¬ pectations pectationsThe The race for Canadianbred horses fell to H Giddings own bred colt Prinio which however was forced to do his best to hold Statim safe the latter closing a big gay after being badly outrun in the early stages stagesThe The W S Kilmer horses including Exterminator in charge of J S Healy arrived this morning anil unloaded in good condition conditionA A F Dayton has received Harp of the North which was shipped to him from Xew York YorkG G IS Allen has bought Archie Alexander Gar ¬ bage and Galaway GalawayW W P Fraser who will act as one of thu stew ¬ ards here arrived today from Toronto TorontoKuddy Kuddy P Marshall of Pittsburgh owner of the Keystone Stable is here for the meeting meetingMrs Mrs E A Yeargin mother of jockey George Yeargin is an arrival from her home in Nash ¬ ville villeJulius Julius Itecdcr is cooperating with Joseph Mc ¬ Lennan and J 15 Campbell in the office of the secretary Mortons Wood thrush developed a slight fever earlier in the afternoon and was excused from his race today todayDick Dick Vestal who is in charge of the G L Plackford horses reports that some of them in ¬ cluding the good twoyearold Centimeter are coughing Jockey Smallwood accompanied the Itlackford horses here from Kentucky
