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TO FEATURE LONG-DISTANCE RACING WINDSOR, Ont., Aug. 10. Fifty per cent of the races oil the Windsor Jockey Club.s program of the second meeting, starting next Wednesday, will be at a mile or over. The long-distance performers will have their opportunities in twenty-five out of the forty-nine races to be decided,, the majority of the sprinting affairs having been framed principally for two-year-olds. There are to be fifteen races at a mile and a sixteenth, seven at a mile and an eighth and three at a mile. Fully sixty per cent of the 300 horses now stabled at Windsor are performers that prefer a long route and this contingent Is being worked daily over a fast track at the distances carded for them to run at the coining meeting. The leading race over a sprint distance is the D. and C. Handicap, which will be run on the fifth day of the meeting, Monday, August 22. . This dash is at three-quarters of a mile and the swiftest sprinters on the Canadian circuit have contested it in the past. Last year the race resulted in Dr. Hickman establishing a new track record for the distance, which was negotiated In 1:11, by the Hendrie colt. This fast mark is one that Eddie Rickenbacher, Miss Jemima, Talisman, Last One, Jean Corey and others will have to "shoot at" at the approaching meeting. The owner of the winner of the D. and C. in addition to receiving the big end of a ,500 purse, will be presented with an elaborate plate, donated by the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company.
