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W A BURTSCHELL WINS TWO Trainer of Skinker Stable Saddles Winners of ofTwo Two Feature Races at Hamilton in inFort Fort Bliss and Midnight Sun I HAMILTON Out July 31 W A Burtschell saddled the winners of the two feature races at Hamilton this afternoon when he sent Fort Bliss 1 I to the post in the Itrantford Selling Handicap and Midnight Sun in the Glanford Handicap The 1 Irantford Handicap a dash of a mile and a six ¬ teenth was the stake attraction if the opening program of tin second meeting while the Glaiiford Handicap was an overnight race at threequarters of a mile Both horses were ridden by Simpson and iKith made all of the pace and won in driving finishes finishesFair Fair Lassie and Alberta S came from behind in the opener and in a driving finish which lasted from the top of the homestretch to the finish Fair Lassie won by a scant half length Kama made an exhibition of his opponents in the second race raceThe The attendance while large was not up to the record crowd of the previous meeting meetingJ J It Campbell succeeded Joseph A Murphy as oiie of the stewards of the meeting meetingK K E Watkins was an arrival from New York this morning He brought up several horses of his own besides a division of the Pelican stable Jockey Xocller accompanied the stable stableBefore Before leaving for Saratoga where he plans to remain for three or four weeks James Arthur ar ¬ ranged with Clyde Phillips to handle his horses during his absence absenceJ J Hope and M Goodpaster were arrivals from Montreal The former brought the plater Duke Ruff The apprentice II Gibson also came with Hope HopeW W A Ossler got in with Sweet Viola Skirt Dance and Sariban SaribanJockey Jockey II Meyers was an arrival from New York He will finish out the season up here with the E T Zollicoffer stable Jt cktyrTliur er who suffered pulu iiLanjurie tflj a result of afill at the recent Fort Erie meeting get in from Buffalo this morning It will be some weeks before Thurber will be able to resume riding ridingThe The plater Evening Ray the property of J John ¬ son was struck by lightning at Fort Erie a week ago yesterday and was killed John W Schorr has obtained second call on the services of Jockey Kennedy for the Hamilton and Fort Erie meetings meetingsFred Fred Musante was unable to obtain stable room at Saratoga and shipped his horses here hereTlKTe TlKTe are fewer than 400 horses on the grounds but they are a wellbalanced band and should fur ¬ nish interesting contests A majority of the racers are of the selling plater division
