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HORSE COLONY ADDITIONS Shipment of Eighty Thoroughbreds Expected at Windsor Track for Coming Meeting. WINDSOR, Ont., June 2G— The Windsor horse colony will be augmented by eighty head of the best thoroughbreds that have been performing the last few weeks on the Toronto tracks, says secretary W. R. Norvell of the Kenilworth Jockey Club. The Western Racing Association, through John W. Smith, former mayor of Detroit, announces the dates of the two summer meetings at Devonshire. The first extends from July 12 to July 19 and the second from August 14 to 21. Director Smith adds that the purse distribution will be equal to that at Kenilworth, which is 1,900 for the week starting next Saturday. The announcement of Devonshires dates is most pleasing to the horsemen now at Windsor and those planning to come here, as the racing season will be practically continuous from Saturday next to the third week in August. During the four weeks at Kenilworth and Devonshire the purse and handicap distribution will exceed a quarter of a million dollars. During the Devonshire meetings liberal money features similar to the ,000 Kenilworth Handicap and the ,000 Detroit Handicap will be run. Entries for. the ,500 Walkerville Handicap, to be run on the opening day at Kenilworth, Saturday next, will close with secretary Nor-velle on Thursday. Entries for the Fourth of July Handicap, with ,000 added, close on Saturday. The distance of the former feature is at a mile and seventy yards and the latter is at a mile and a sixteenth. The jockey colony at Kenilworth has been augmented by E. T. Moore, Guerra and OMalley, three of the most successful pilots at the Toronto tracks this year.
