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DEVONSHIRE TRACK HEAVY DEVONSHIRE, Ont., July 3. The races at Devonshire this afternoon were run over a heavy track and the conditions of six of the seven races called for claiming allowances. Scratches were numerous and small fields went to the post in a majority of the contests. The feature race, a dash of a mile and seventy yards, to which ,000 was added, furnished a stirring contest in which Merri-mac beat Eleanor S. by a scant length. Petie scored her sixth consecutive victory when she won the third race. The following notice was posted in the secretarys office : "All horses directly or indirectly under the care or superintendency o any person ruled off or suspended for rraua by any association will be disqualified from racing and any owners or trainers who harbor any ruled off or suspended person will be denied all privileges." The schooling list here is made up of the1 following horses: Steeple, AVar Fox, Lou Annie, Moco, Carmandale, Eternity, Lads Love. E. F. Whitney is expected here from New York some time during the Windsor meeting. The Whitney horses will remain here until the opening of the Maryland fall season of racing, when they will be shipped to Havre de Grace. Jockey Flynn was suspended for three days by the starter for disobedience at the post. Rod McKinzie was an arrival from Toronto. William Walker announced that he would not race his horses next winter. He has not as yet decided whether to ship them back to his place at San Diego or turn them out at some farm in Canada. The mare Mistress Polly will be bred to some English stallion. Terminal hit himself while being galloped this morning and pulled up lame. He was excused from starting in the third race by the stewards. A. L. Austins horses got in from Hamilton this morning. Austin has decided to fire the good two-year-old Mt. Rose and no attempt will be made to race him before next fall. ML Rose has been troubled with os-seits. J. Stotler, who looks after the G. W. J. Bissell horses, is laid up with rheumatism and the Bissell horses will be saddled by their owner during the remainder of the meeting.
