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OPENS AT WINDSOR TODAY Outlook For Second Meeting Appears Exceedingly Bright. . Catalan Top Weight in the Inaugural Day Attraction Plenty of Good Material to Fill Programs. WINDSOR, Ont., Aug. IS. The second summer meeting of the Windsor Jockey Club Avill open tomorrow afternoon. The Windsor .Jockey Club. Handicap Avill feature the inaugural program. It is a race at a mile and a sixteenth with a purse of ,500. There are no stakes on the program of tne meeting, but tho Windsor Jockey Club Handicap is a continuation in name of a stake which has been a fixture of the association and has been won by some good horses, including Exterminator. There are enough horses on Tiand to insure well filled and evenly balanced fields for the seven days of racing. In addition to the stables which raced at Devonshire last week, there are arrivals from Fort Erie to try for the prizes. Clarence Buxtcn, AAho came from New lork with a dozen head, is the only addition to the lists of the Devonshire and Fort Erie meetings. It is confidently expected that the meeting will be successful. Racing in Canada this Summer has fallen off greatly in popularity as compared with the year before. This situation is general, but at the first meeting of the Windsor Jockey Club the decrease in attendance Avas less noticeable than at other courses, along the line. Proportionately the club suffered less than any of the others. This fact coupled Avith the additional one that the sport picked up at Hamilton and Fort Erie the first two tracks to stage their second meetings of the year makes it be-lieveable that the second summer meeting here will reward its promoters. Six horses are slated OAcrnight to compete in the opening day feature. Catalan is the highweight. Missionary, Redstone, Best Pal, Fredericktown and Polly Wale make up Continued on twelfth page. OPENS AT WINDSOR TODAY Continued from first page. the competition. Marshall Cassldy, who did the starting at Devonshire will be a spectator at this meeting and will return to the starters box at the Kenilworth Park meeting which opens next week. One cf the most complete hospitals at any race track in America has been built here since the first meeting. It is has been built apart and situated near the Secretarys office. Under the direction of Dr. R. Cas-grain, the track physician the hospital has been completely equipped even to the necessities for the performing of operations. Dr. Casgrain and an interne will be in attendance during racing hours. Among the interesting special racing features to be decided at the second summer meeting of the Windsor Jockey Club will be the D. and C. Handicap, which race had its initial running way back in 1912. Two of the track records now standing at this old course were made by winning horses in renewals of the D. and C. During the early years of the fixture the distance of the race was a mile and Robert Bradley, its winner in 1914 covered the route in 1:37, a record performance that has, withstood all attacks on the track for ten years. In 1920, the distance of the stake was reduced to three-quarters of a mile and two years later, the winner, Carmandale was caught by the official timers in 1:10. This time for the distance has never been shattered, with the result that the D. and C. possesses an unique history. In addition to Robert Bradley and Carmandale, the victors of the stake have been Edda, Prince Ahmed, Fountain Fay, King Gorin, Phil Ungar, Estero and Dr. Hickman. The latter estbalished a three-quarters track record in 1920, to have a fifth of a second of the mark he created clipped off in 1922. What are the prospects for a still further reduction in the D. and C. renewal on next Monday? There will be some very speedy sprinters at the Jockey Club track to take a fling at the historic race. There will be Bostwicks speed marvel, Shuffle Along, Hallucination, the best Canadian bred horse in training, Exalted Ruler, a fine sprinter on the Jockey Club tracks this year and recent arrival on the Canadian circuit, General Thatcher, winner of the Frontier Handicap last month and many other lesser lights. There will be nothing lacking in the matter of swift horses at all events to make the race as usual, one of thrills on the afternoon of August 25.
