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! . I ; i ; : ; : LAFAYETTE TO CHO CHO Defeats Lion dOr in Fast Eace at Fort Erie A. L. Eirby Saddles Two Winners. FORT ERIE, OnL, July 5. The Lafayette! Hotel Handicap, which featured the days program at Fort Erie, resulted in victory for D. Lesters Cho Cho, which had a length margin at the finish from Lion dOr, with Serapia third. The winner was ridden by-Wciner, dominated tlie running throughout and ran tho three-quarters in the fastest time of the meeting, 1 :12. Cho Cho was made the medium of confident support and the favorite The start was a good one and Cho Cho, beginning from the outside, drew away into tha lead, closely pressed by Lion dOr, with the remainder of the field outrun. This order was maintained for the biggest part of the race. Lion dOr attempted to go through on the inside rounding the far turn, but Turner was forced to take up, and Cho Cho drew away. In the run through the stretch Weincr hustled Cho Cho along and she held him safe for the remainder of the contest. Sera-pis was up in time to take the third portion of the purse by a short head from Diomed. A. L. Kirby was much in the limelight this afternoon when he saddled two winners. Wild Life and Cho Cho. Both were ridden by F. Weiner. Wild Life accounted for a two-year-old dash when he came from the rear and stole through on the inside and led home Canmorc and Sly Fox. Royal Maid was the early pacemaker and was pressed by Canmorc, while the winner was penned in on the rail. Weincr found the opening at the stretch turn when the leaders went wide and in a drive was up in the final sixteenth to win going away. Briand graduated from the maiden ranks when he was a winner in a drive from a well-matched band of two-year-olds at five and a half furlongs. Briand was ridden by McDcrmott and came from behind tlie- pace. Yalta took second place and Hughie was third. ROYAL VISITORS FINE VICTORY. T" Inferno Handicap for Canadian-breds at a mile and three-sixteenths resulted in a spectacular victory for H. Giddings Royal Visitor, which was up in the final strides to earn a nose decision from Push Pin, while Woodbine was third. The winner was ridden by G. Walls and was rated off the pace established by Chloris, which attempted to make a runaway affair of the race. Push Pin went to the front rounding the far turn and Walls brought Royal Visitor up with a rush. The two fought it out, heads apart for the final sixteenth and Royal Visitor out-gamed the Thorncliffe starter in the final strides. Woodbine came from a long way back and took the third portion of the purse. There vas a falling off in the attendance this afternoon from that of yesterday, though spirited racing prevailed. The card was a well-balanced one and the public had a much better line on the merits of the different starters and well backed choices were in tho ascendency. Joseph Dwyer, a well-known trotting man of Pittsburgh, Pa., was an arrival and will remain for a few days. Jockey F. Woodstock was forced to cancel his. engagements this afternoon, due to an injured leg. Jockey T. Brooke will leave for Ashland, Ky., and ride for A. Wallan at that point, returning to join Owen Pons at Windsor. John Carey distributed condition books for the coming meeting at Maple Heights which opens on July 15.
