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HAMILTON RACING POPULAR Greatest Attendance in theTracks History Present Yesterday Bondage Takes the Feature Race Racein in Easy Fashion New NewShift Shift in Purses HAMILTON Ontario August 2 Standing room was at a premium at the Hamilton Jockev Clubs course this afternoon Holiday racegoers came down from Toronto in droves and Buffalo and Hamilton were well represented too The attendance was the largest that ever crowded through the gates of the club The program while not an especially attractive one furnished interesting contests The sport was longdrawn out the post time for the closing oclockThe race being set long after oclock The feature race the Sandringham Handicap a dash of a mile and an eighth proved little better than an easy gallop for Mrs James Arthurs Rondage which won easily from Clean Gone Bondage usually follows the others to the stretch but today he made most of the pace and at no time was he fully extended Duke John after setting the early pace tired badly in the last quar ¬ ter terJ J W Rean was an arrival from Washington His gocxi racer King Hejod will be rested for the fall meetings in Maryland MarylandG G R Allen has purchased at private sale from K McDermott the plater Pas de Clntiice v Ammunition was taken doyn yitli the distemper amL xeiLsed from starling in the fifth nice Rancher was also reported as being sick It is the first time during his long career on the turf that he has been on the ailing list listThe The condition book of the Hamilton Jockey Olub has again been revised Although the meeting is but two days old this is the second time that a change has been made in the purse values Sec ¬ retary London brought a bunch of these books down to AViifdsor and distributed them among the horse ¬ men The condition book showed purses of 1000 added to the overnight races This created some little discontent among the horsemen The opinion was that the club should have been more liberal in view of the fact that thp June meeting was the most prosperous in the history of racing at Hamil ¬ ton tonAt At the eleventh hour a telegram signed by A R London was posted in the secretarys office at Kenilworth announcing that an error had been made by the printer and that the purses sboiild have read 1200 On Saturday several of the horse ¬ men held a conference and decided to ask the man ¬ agement for lr 00 purses and another announce ¬ ment then came from the association saying that beginning on Tuesday that five of the seven purses would be 1400 and the other two purses 1200 The horsemen claim and with good reason too that owing to the contiual shipments the high cost of feed and labor and the difference in tin exchange in the money market that it costs more to elseThe race a horse on this circuit than any place else The following stables shipped from Windsor to Lexington to take part in the two fairs to be held there 0 T Worthington W T McGivney and J MacManus MacManusAmong Among the improvements being made to the plant of the AVindsor Jockey Club is the erection of bleechers the entire length of the paddock This is for the accommodation of the horsemen and the overflow from the main inclosure inclosureThe The lawn at the Woodbine Park course at To ¬ ronto will be extended well up toward the head of the homestretch Several stables will be de ¬ molished improvementsThe to make room for the improvements The horses in the Kirkfield Stable have been shipped to the Mackenzie farm and trainer Canada Jack Atkin has gone to Saratoga for a couple of weeks weeksA A L Kirby arrived from Windsor yesterday with seven horses some of which will race in the colors of J B Respess Jockey W Morrissey accompanied the stable stableClyde Clyde Phillips will look after the engagements of jockey Richcreek during the absence of James Arthur who left for Saratoga
