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OPENING DAY AT HAMILTON Brantford Selling Handicap Feature of Inaugu ¬ ral Program Fields in Majority of Races Are Small HAMILTON Out July 30 Featuring the Brant ford Selling Handicap a stake event with 2000 added for threeyearolds and upward at a mile and a sixteenth the second Hamilton Jockey Club meeting gets under way tomorrow Hamilton is the first of the Canadian Racing Association tracks 1o stage its second meeting Kiich of the eight components of the circuit has had one meeting So tomorrow marks the beginning of the second swing around the circuit circuitThe The popularity of the sport has been phenome ¬ nal running right through from the opening at Woodbine to the meeting which closed Thursday at Kenilworth and from present indications there will be no let up in the patronage of volume of specu ¬ lation lationA A R London secretary of the local club reports that there will be fully as many thoroughbreds on band as were here for the first meeting in spite of the fact that many of the stables which cam ¬ paigned at Windsor and Kenilworth will be absent To partially offset these there are a number of stables which have been resting up bore since the Fort Erie meeting including those of C Irby Commander 1 K L Ross E T Zollicoffer J II Loiifhheim W F Poison and the Brookdale stable in charge of Geo Walker WalkerThe The first shipment of horses from Windsor wa due hero this morning but was delayed somewhat In the special were the charges of J T Strite I Shaw A C Niohaus J A Parsons M Seifert E 5i Jones R F Coppage W F Knebelkamp G M Hendrie II Tnllett and T Hodge HodgeThe The stables of R D AVilliams and W Perkins arc among those which go direct from Kenilworti to Fort Erie Jockey Lunsford however who has been riding for Perkins will ride here J A Par ¬ sons is handling his book Lunsfords suspension has expired expiredTin Tin horses of W A Burtschell Milton Smith and W Durnan were due to leave Windsor this morning and arrive here late this afternoon afternoonJ J W Murphy is an arrival from Montreal with Due de Guise GuiseJockey Jockey II Myers who has been engaged by W McKinney to ride the horses of E T ollicoffer has been here for several days having come from New Ytrk Some of the other more prominent jockeys to be seen in action here are Ileupel But well Willis Romanelli Stirling McCrann Stearns K Hunt and G Yeargin
