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1 FORT ERIE TURF NOTES * ยป John J. Farrell, clerk of the scales at Fort Erie, was presented with a set of Carl Zeiss binoculars as a token of appreciation by the riders performing at Fort Erie. R. Pollard made the presentation speech on behalf of the riders, prior to the first race. John H. Madigan, president of the Niagara Racing Association, will be host to members of the Buffalo Club on Tuesday of next week. Members of that body will be tendered a luncheon at the home of Mr. Madigin prior to the races. S. S. Freidlein, Cuban merchant, who is racing a large string of useful performers at Syracuse, has wired for stalls for the forthcoming meeting at Stamford Park. Fortunate Youth is the mainstay of the foreign-owned establishment, while pockey J. Prieto, a Cuban lad, does the riding. Walter Mara, whose work as starter was praised by the management and horsemen at the thirty-six day meeting of the Shenandoah Valley Jockey Club at Charles Town, W. Va.f was an arrival from New York to visit his many friends on the Canadian tracks. Mara will remain until Saturday, after which he will depart for Rockingham Park. Jockey R. Townrow, who rode with much success on Canadian and American tracks, sent word from Toronto that he has decided to forsake the saddle and has requested his friends employed in the jockeys room at Fort Erie to dispose of his saddles and other tack. The four-year-old horse, Edward, owned by D. Cainer and trained by R. Ripley, will be allowed to perform as a Canadian-bred. It developed that the racer Edward was not registered with the Independent Canadian Racing Association, and for that reason his entry was not accepted previously. It was later learned that registration papers were filed with the authorities in Ottawa, which cleared up the case. Thomas Bonham, who trained a successful string of racers for C. R. Fleischman on the Canadian circuit, was an arrival and will remain in this vicinity for some time. It has been learned that Harry Giddings, trainer of the powerful R. S. McLaughlin stable, will ship a draft of racers to Saratoga. It is likely that several of the W. I. Newmarch stable will go along in the same shipment.
