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DEVONSHIRE GOING BETTER Good Weather Brings Improvement to Track and Racing. . ! Daydue Wins a Long Delayed Victory and Lothair Scores in Easy Style. WINDSOR, Out., August .".Harry Payne Whitneys colors were seen in front for the first lime at the Devonshire truck when his two-year-old filly Rewitch beat a band of maiden two-year-olds in the second race this afternoon. I.cwitch made a ninaway affair of her race, but at the end had to be shaken up a bit to outstay George J. Longs Fedora. There was a decided improvement in racing conditions, the weather being clear and cool, while the track was in decidedly better order than on the previous days of meeting. The result was better sport and keener contests, and a majority of the races were won by well backed horses. Two handicaps were provided as features, one a dash of three-quarters, and the other a claiming handicap at a mile and a sixteenth. Purses of ,000 were added to each of these races. The sprint fell to Daydue. which was saddled by C. Ruxton and ridden by his brother M. F.ux-ton. Daydue was restrained in the early running. Pullet Proof and Fitz-P.oodle being allowed to race themselves into exhaustion. When P.urton called- on Daydue in the ..stretch the latter responded with u rusli and at the finish won going away fast. The claiming handicap was won by Lothair, which came from behind in the stretch and beat Old Chap out in easy fashion. Old Chap raced into a long lead in the early running, but when the real action came lie began tiring and at the lid had to stand a grueling drive to beat Accelerate out by a neck. The eastern-owned Lady Lillian, heavily backed by her people, beat a band of platers in the third, a claiming race at one mile. A. Peleliere. the Crescent City horseman, has arranged to ship four of the six horses in his stable to the Jefferson Park course near w Orleans at the conclusion of the present meeting. Among them will be Cobalt l.ass and Star Time, lloth of these racers went wrong in their last races. V. C. Wcant has arranged to send his horses from here to Port Erie. Other horsemen who will ship from here to ,the Niagara Jockey Clubs course are James Arthur, J. II. Ioucliheim. Stuart Polk, O. II. Rryson and the Lincoln Stable. Jockey P.uxton left tonight for Saratoga, but will return for the opening of the Windsor meeting. Clarence P.uxton will rest his horses until the return of racing at Windsor. Ills plans are to race at all of the fall meetings on the Canadian Racing Associations tracks and has forwarded applications for stalls at all of them. Ruxton is well equipped with riders, his promising apprentice Gant-ner having led the jockeys riding at the recent Kcnliworth meeting. E. It. Pradley and several other horsemen have asked P.uxton to put a price on his contract on the lad, but as yet Buxton lias turned down all offers. William Snyder, starter Dades main assistant, leaves for his home at Hematite, .Missouri, at the conclusion of the meeting. In the event of the second meeting at Devonshire conflicting with the Kentucky meetings, it is possible that Snyder may do the starting here.
