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1 FORT ERIE TURF NOTES $ Eleven performers, headed by Clotho, will make up the shipment that J. A. Healey will take to Windsor for C. V. Whitney. This will mark the first appearance of the Whitney stable at the border course. Jockey Rose, who has been having good success in the saddle, will do the riding for the New York establishment. Jockey C. Willis, an apprentice who accompanied the Whitney stable to Canada and who suffered three fractured ribs when thrown from Rapscallion at Hamilton, was discharged from the general hospital and is rapidly recovering from his injuries. Walter Mara has been engaged to substitute for starter Marshall Cassidy at Devonshire Park Saturday. Mara, with many years of service, has made a good reputation in this capacity. Cassidy will be engaged on the same day at Fort Erie. A. J. Halliwell, who hurried to Hawthorne to replenish his stable, arrived from the Cicero course with the two additions that he secured. The new members include Tar-nisi, which was claimed for ,200, and Representative, which was secured for ,500. J. O. Burttschell has arranged to ship to Windsor at the conclusion of the Niagara Jockey Club meeting. Burttschell is training a public stable in addition to his own performers. The J. E. Smallman stable, one of the largest in the Dominion, will leave for Devonshire Park for the meeting that opens Saturday. Thti C. Smythe-W. G. Campbell stable will be transferred to Windsor to be on hand for the Inaugural of the second summer meeting at Devonshire Park. Jockey T. Aimers remained in Toronto to undergo a minor operation for tonsils and adenoids. William R. Woollatt, general manager of the Devonshire Park Jockey Club, is expected during the week to interest horsemen in the approaching meeting to be staged at the Windsor course. Nearly all of the horsemen engaged in racing at Fort Erie have signified their intentions of shipping to Windsor at the conclusion of the Fort Erie meeting.
