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SHOWERS AND HEAVY TRACK Ruin Tuesdays Program at Kenilworth Park Mud Runners in Their Glory. WINDSOR, Ont., October 11. Scratches played havoc with the card at Kenilworth Park this afternoon, with the result that small fields went to the post in the majority of the races. It was an Ideal day for mud runners. The races were run over a heavy track and tinder intermittent showers. Despite the unpleasant, conditions a good-sized crowd turned out and speculation was keen. The program was made up of a series of claiming races and the contests were fairly well matched. In the opener Evelyn White came from behind and, after a terrific stretch drive, got up in the final strides to beat Alva by a head. Chief Sponsor, heavily backed in the race for Canadian-breds, after racing Sudor into defeat at the half mile post, drew away into a big lead to win in a canter. Anticipate, after making all the pace in the third race, tired near the end and had a strenuous time to successfully withstand the fast closing rush of Earnest. The latter came from last place and finished fastest of all. Roseate, North Shore and Gilt Fringe fought it out nil through the homestretch in the fourth race and passed the judges as named heads apart. Austral easily accounted for the fifth rnce, for which he was the pronounced choice. He was saved until entering the stretch, where he rushed to the front and drew away to win by a wide margin. Frank J. Bruen, general manager of the Cuba-American Jockey and Auto Club, was an arrival from the East and was busy all afternoon lining up owners for shipment to Cuba. Mr. Bruen brings glowing accounts of the prospects for racing in Havana during the coming winter. The big stakes and liberal purses offered at Oriental Park will bring a better class of horses and. with them a better class of jockeys. Mr. Bruen returns to New York tomorrow night. JM ARTHUR GOING TO LAUREL; japxejtArthurJufcaiTangedito leajje,! or HaltimoKT tomorrow night so as to reach Laurel on Thnrsdayf Jockeys C. Ling and Riclicreek will accompany him. Johnny McTaggart will also leave for Maryland tomorrow. The Seagram stable disposed of the plater War Tank to M. G. Gordon of Ottawa. The remainder of the Seagram horses will be shipped to the farm at Waterloo, where they will go into winter quarters. Ardito grabbed his quarter while being worked this morning and was excused by the stewards from starting. A. Swenke claimed the useful plater Veteran after he won the sixth race yesterday. Veteran cost his new owner ,500. M. N. Macfarlan will be one of the staff of officials at the Fair Grounds track at New Orleans next winter. Shortly before the horses were called to the post for the opening dash this afternoon showers set in and there was a scurrying among owners of horses which did not fancy the soft going to scratch thtm and withdrawals were numerous. Jack Osborne of London, brother to Frederick Osborne, a well-known sporting man from the other side, was. among the new arrivals. Mr. Osborne contemplates purchasing several horses for racing at one of the winter tracks.
