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HAMILTONS SECOND MEETING Brantford Selling Handicap Feature of Attractive Opening Day Program. HAMILTON, Out., July 2!. -The second 11121 meeting under the auspices of the Hamilton Jockey Club will he ushered in Saturday afternoon with a well-balanced card, featured by the running of the Hrnntfortl Selling Handicap at a distance of one mile and a sixteenth. This event will bring together a small but well-matched field and should be productive of a spirited coutes. Apart from the feature race the card is well balanced anil should be replete with good racing. Several new improvements of a minor nature have been completed that will add materially to the comfort of the patrons, chief of who-h are the installation of several new ticket booths. That there will be no shortage of horses is plainly evident from the numerous arrivals. The invasion from Windsor was of a heavy order and brings together the best of the stables campaigning over the Canadian circuit. Those that remained here are iu good condition and much benefited li,v their prolonged rest from the active participation in racing. Steeplechasing will play an important part during the meeting and those that fancy races through the field will be more than rewarded, fw every effort lias been made to bring the best together. The riding colony, while not as strong as the spring meeting, harbors some of the best boys on tlie circuit, which will be reinforced from time to time by the addition of others that are bound to come for the deciding of stakes and handicap races. A. V. Thomas has resigned as trainer of the Nugent ISros. stable. Julius Recrier has succeeded AV. H. Gerhardy in the official family.
