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;dqo added selling stake Seldom Are "Platers" Afforded Opportunity to Contest for Such a 3" Large Siim. --" DETROIT. Mich., August 10. Five thousand dollars in added money is a big sum for a selling stake race. But that is the amount the eligibles to the D: and C. Stake will run for during the Windsor Jockey Clubs second meeting, July 21 to 28. MemlHjrs of the claiming division at the races are not often afforded the opportunity to participate in such watermelon slicing, and ttK result will be that the starters in the D. and C. will classify closer to the handicap contingent than to the so-called "selling plater" class. The distance of tlio sthke is three-quarters of n mile :and horses of all ages are eligible. In addition to the $."i,000 jirize a silver cup goes" to the owner bf the winner, A reiharkable coincidence of the stake is hat nearly every renewal has been decided over a muddy or wet track. " "This may be singularly appropriate for a fixture haincd iu honor of the D. and C. Navigation Line," says President A. A. Schantz of that corporation, "but for a change I am agreeable to a ;day tha.t will be fair and warm, and a, track lightning fast for the big race. "I also would like to find in the list of entries at least one with a lake or .steamboat name. Then I .might make my selection with comfort and confidence. The closest to the nomenclature I dosire .in the I. and C. was in ,191i. when the winner turned up in Fountain Fay. I was aboard Fountain Fay that day because his name was the nearest approach to the water idea of any performer in the fiehL "Again, I have another reason for wishing it fair and warm on the day the D. and C. is run. I have purchased a brand new white suit for that day and some of my closest friends have gone and done likewise, "aiid rain aiid mild do not bleud harmoniously with light fluffy summer attire." "
