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KENILWORTH MEETING NEAR Track Opens Next Saturday With 0,000 International Handicap as Inaugural Feature. WINDSOR, Ont, July 15. The flags will be flying at Kenilworth Park next Saturday, July 22, when the first summer meeting of 1922 at that picturesque plant, so pleasantly situated near this city, will bo inaugurated and will continue until Saturday, July 29. Everything is practically in a state of readiness for the opening of what holds out every promise of being the most brilliant season of summer racing in the history of this progressive and enterprising racing association. Some little work is being done in carrying to completion the program of improvements which manager Orpen undertook last summer in order to provide adequate accommodations for Kenilworths rapidly growing patronage. As a result of thi3 work Kenilworth will be more attractive than ever when racing is resumed there on July 22. The track itself at Kenilworth i3 already in fine condition and a considerable number of horses are galloping over it every day in preparation for the coming racing. There will be no lack of stabling accommodations, for horsemen who are unable to secure stabling on the grounds will be able to house their charges at Devonshire Park or the track of the Windsor Jockey Club, both of which tracks aro near by. All of the important racing establishments whose horses have been making such notable turf history in Canada this year will participate in tho Kenilworth meeting, and in addition some stables from Kentucky that have not figured in the meetings already held in Canada will make their Canadian debut at the Kenilworth course. The demands for stabling room this year are extraordinary and furnish one of several good reasons for the general belief that Kenilworth will this summer be the scene of the most remarkable race meeting in its history. With an abundance of good horses fit and ready to fill the tempting races with which the program book is so well supplied it is indeed a pleasing prospect that the patrons of Kenilworth are facing. Three important stakes are to be decided during the seven days of racing. These arc the International Handicap, for the all-aged division, at one mile and an eighth, which has an added money value of 0,000 and is the premier event of the meeting. It will have its running on the opening day of the meeting. The Cadillac Handicap, for two-year-olds, at five and a half furlongs, with ,000 added money, will be decided Wednesday, July 26. The Prince Edward Hotel Handicap, another affair for the all-aged division, will be run the closing day. It is at a mile and a sixteenth and also has ,000 added money. The International Handicap, around which racing secretary Norvell will build a card of surpassing brilliancy for the opening day, Continued on twelfth page. KENILWORTE MEETING NEAR Continued from first page. Is a race of great possibilities. It closed with forty-eight eligibles, and if there are twelve starters, which seems not an unreasonable expectation, the race will have a gross value of something like 1,900. Most of the horses which recently met in the running of the Frontier Handicap at the track of the Windsor Jockey Club are eligible for this race and the field will be composed of much the same horses that contested for that 0,000 prize, which was captured by Boniface, with Registrar, a stable mate, finishing second. Morvich, Exterminator, Grey Lag, Knobbie, Mad Hatter and Kai-Sang are numbered among the eligibles, but it is not certain whether any of these cracks will , come West for the running of this race. But Boniface, Registrar, Golden Sphere, Minto II., John Finn, Bygone Days, Bunga Buck, Star Jester, Guy, Radio, Baby Grand, Planet, Captain Scott and Mainmast are likely to be contenders in the stake.
