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OPENING DAY AT WINDSOR Frontier Handicap With Crack Field the Outstanding Feature of Excellent Inaugural Card. WINDSOR, Out.. June 2S.— Racing tOSBM Sack to the home of the Windsor Jockey Club with the opening today anel what promises to be one of the best meetings of the above track is being lookeel forwarel to. The plant itself presents all the latest improvements and race goers will find that the picturesque course has been thoroughly gone over. Painters have been at work unceasingly for the past few weeks to reaely things up while other details have been carefully attended to. The track proper has seen in readiness for some time anel horsemen have been very liberal in their praise in the manner that it has COOM along. Several excellent moves have been recorded anel before the seven Bays? meeting is e ver there will no eloubt be a new roster of track record linld.-rs. As has been the custom of the Windsor Joe-key Club, the opening elays feature will be the Frontier Handicap, which is carded down for decisie n jis the fourth race and which brings nine high chess performers to test their speed over the mile anel an eighth. This race has an added value of 0,000 dollars with Fdisto. from the Canadian owned Seagram Stably being aeeorded top weight, while King Nadi, priele of the blue grass regions, has the next highest, one pound less than the Seagram ace. Then comes Joy Smoke-, Chilhowe-e. Qesjeral Thatcher, winne-r of the same stake last mason, Token, winner e f the Hamilton Derby, South Wind coupled with the latter M the Green Briar Stable entry, anil the two lightweights, Coani Bprack and Qrenier. In all it is a Bald of excellent racers and a Contest worth going miles to see is forecasted i;[ on. The remainder of the caul is a well balanced one that should furnish plenty of contention. Ideal weather conditions should aid in bringing out a e-apacity attendance and all arrangements for the handling of a record opening elay crowel has been catered to.