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RACE TRACK OWNERS CASES DISMISSED WINDSOR, Ontario, October 23. The cases .against, the Western Racing Association, owners of .the .Devonshire race track and the Windsor Jockey Club; owners of the Windsor track, were dismissed in police court by Magistrate Miers. The charge were that the owners were, conducting a common gambling house, and were based on the allegation that the charters under which the tracks were operated are illegal. The cases were started is 88 attempt by, the government to close the tracks. PROSPERITY IN AUSTRALIA1 I Attendance of Last Racing Year Exceeds All Previous Records Leading Winning Sires. The Australian racing year finishes on July 31, and in many ways it has been a record one, and particularly in the matter of attendances. This has especially been the case., Jn Sydney, and the turf writer of the Australasian attributes this to the introduction of the totalizator. Since then it is stated racing has gone ahead by, leaps and bounds, "A new class of racegoers was attracted," states the writer, "when,, with the establishment of the totalizator, more of. an Halr of respectability was, supposed to be given to, Jbettlng than under the old i system. In Sydney bookmaker and totalizator, work I side by side, and despite the enormous Investments made through the machine they reached 57,915 for one race, the Sydney Cup; last Easter Monday, and 27,295 for the day the bookmakers business shows no sign of a decline. "The attendance on the day mentioned was estimated at 83,000, which beat any previous one-day attendance at Randwick by lOOOO. Not so many years ago 25,000 was considered a large attendance on; a Sydney Cup day. This gives an, idea of the way in which the popularity of racing has increased in the New South Wales capital." The list of winning owners, is headed by Sir Samuel Jlordern of New South Wales and Mr. A. D. Murphy of Victoria, who race in partnership, and they won nine and one-half races of the value of 3,980, but the curious thing is that the whole of that, money was won through Artilleryman, which, among other successes, carried "off the Melbourne Cup and the Caulfield Guineas. The racing honors of. the; year were shared by two three-year-olds Artilleryman, a brown colt by Comedy King. Cross Battery, and; Richmond 1Main, a chestnut colt by Prince Foote--Australian Gus. They met on four occasions and chief honors went to . Artilleryman, which won twice, and. a ran a dead-heat, while the other race was won by Richmond. Main.. - vaa JKr. J was second :tbe4JtasfEeTesnlt of the successes of Richmond Main, -aiid . the winnings of no other owner besides these" two ran into five figures. For the first time in. his career Comedy King heads the list of winning stallions.rand Mr.. Norman Falkiner made a lucky purchase when he paid 7,300 guineas for him at the break-up of the Shipley Stud. Comedy King had thirty-two winning horses, which among them won seventy-five races of the aggregate value of 54,015; of -which Artilleryman contributed more than half. The stallions whose winnings amounted to five figures are as follows: Comedy King, by Persimmon Tragedy Queen .54,015 Linacre, by Wolfs Crag Lismaine 120,750 The Welkin, by Flying Frog Woodbury 121,450 Kenilworth, by Childwick Kizil Kourgan.. . 95,625 Syce, by Cyllene Skyscraper..... 85,745 Pistol, by Carbine Wenonah 78,905 Tressady, by Persimmon Simplify... 72,825 St. Ahvyne, by St. Frusquin Lady Alwyne 72,807 Cooltrim, by Flying Fox Gallinarla 07.050 Eudorus, by Forfarshire ;Pennywise C5.1G0 Malster, by; Bill of Portland Barley. 61,335 Charlemagne II., by St. Simon Perfect Dream 59,130 Prince Foote, by Sir Foote Petruschka.... 52,810 St. Anton, by St. Frusquin Grig. . . .... 50,165 All except Comedy King, Malster and Prince Foote are English stallions. , ; A - ; -. : :
