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JOCKEY ALPHONSE COY Leading Leadingrider rider of Fort Erie meeting and holder of ofbest best riding feat of 1958 season Attendance Increase Recorded At Fort Erie 24Day Meeting Average 6754 Per Day in Spite of Earliest Opening Ever Windtields Top Owner OwnerBy By Staff Correspondent The 2 day Fort Erie meeting which ran from April 7 to May 3 was successful with the daily average attendance rising to 6154 up 223 per day over the correspond ¬ ing session in 1957 The mutuel handle averaged 327787 which was only a drop of 10175 from 1957 This season Fort Eries opening was the earliest on record recordStatistics Statistics compiled by DAILY RACING FORM reveal the April 19 attendance of 13 568 as the highest of the meeting and not far from the alltime high of 13832 set April 14 1956 The April 19 program also saw the top mutael play 614192 passing through the machines This figure com pares with the 668134 record established August 31 1957 Second high of the meet ¬ ing was the 12397 hi attendance on April 26 and the mutuel handle of 608683 reg ¬ istered the same afternoon afternoonAlphonse Alphonse Coy not only was the leadins rider of the session with 28 wins but he turned in the outstanding riding feat of the 1958 season when he scored with six out of seven mounts on April 26 Coy hajj more than twice as many winners as his closest rival R Gonzalez who booted home 13 winners winnersNearctic Nearctic Wins Two Stakes StakesThree Three stakes were decided at the meet ¬ ing and Nearctic from the Windfields Farm of Mr and Mrs E P Taylor won two of them The Nearco Lady Angela colt 3 ered in the Bold Venture and Vigil handicaps and as a result wound up as the leading money winner of the meeting with 7480 to his credit creditSilver Silver Ship from Gordon F Halls sta ¬ ble won the other stake the Queenston and this coupled with one other win and one second gave him 5795 for the meet ¬ ing and placed him second to Nearctic in the moneywinning standings standingsGiver Giver winner of two races plus a second earned 4185 while Ruth Ator only three time winner at the meeting among the i leaders was next with 3395 3395Windfields Windfields Farm led the owners with I 17190 The Taylor stable had seven wins i six seconds and three thirds Trie Gordon Stable with 11400 was sec ¬ ond and the Stafford Farm of J H Staf ¬ ford was third with 1049 1049Frank Frank H Merrill Jr was the leading trainer again with eight wins At the 1957 meeting he led with 17 victories Four trainers tied for second with seven tallies each They were A J Halliwell Qordon QordonMcCann McCann R McDonald and J Starr Starri i Fort Erie statistics follow followApril April 7 to May 3 24 Days DaysGross Gross distribution 372790 372790Net Net distribution 371200 371200Daily Daily average net distribution 1546667 1546667Attendance Attendance 147701 147701Daily Daily average attendance 6154 6154Mutuel Mutuel handle 7866889 7866889Daily Daily average mutuel handle 327787 327787Leading Leading MoneyWinning Owners Owner 1st 1stWindfields 1st 2nd 3rd Won Windfields Farm 7 7McMacken 63 17190 McMacken Stable 5 5Stafford 45 11400 Stafford Farm 7 7Maloney 752 10945 Maloney Smythe 5 5Lanson 55 6 10735 Lanson Farm 5 5HallGF 63 10590 HallGF 5 5Medvvay 1 0 9755 Medvvay Stable 5 5Halliwell 2 3 8510 Halliwell A J 4 4View 8 3 8015 View Hulloa Farm 4 4GianR 44 1 7105 GianR 5 4 1 6985 6985Winning Leading MoneyWinning Winning Horses Horses1st Horse 1st 2nd 3rd Won Nearctic 2 0 0 7480 Silver Ship 210 5795 Giver 2 1 0 4185 GiverRuth Ruth Ator 3 00 3395 Helio Fox 2 1 0 3340 Mandingo 21 0 2j995 Bossator 2 0 0 2795 Rapid Break 200 2730 Kens Carol 2 00 2660 Epic Time 2 00 2595 Rash Decision Leading Winning Jockeys Jockey Mis 1st 2nd 3rd Unp PC Coy A 134 28 23 19 64 21 Gonzalez R 96 13 14 16 5314 LeidN 87 11 10 9 57 13 PongL 87 11 12 13 51 13 Wick A 71 10 5 7 49 14 Remillard P 73 10 8 9 46 14 UyeyamaH 85 10 7 13 55 12 Damien J 63 8 10 6 39 13 McLaughlin R 68 8 10 5 45 12 Leading Winning Trainers TrainersTrainer Trainer Wins Trainer Wir WirMerrillFH MerrillFH Jr 8 Harbourne E L LHalliwell Halliwell A J 7 HuntleyGM 6 6McCann McCann G 7 MannE I IMcDonald McDonald R 7 Thurner W I IStarr Starr J 7 Warner A M b The following stakes were decided decidedSlake Slake Dale Winner Value ValueBold Bold Venture Handicap April 19 19Nearctic Nearctic 3735 3735Queenstoa Queenstoa Stakes April 26 Silver SilverShip Ship 3755 3755Vigil Vigil Handicap May 3 Nearctic 3745 3745The The percentage of winning favorites was below normal as shown in the subjoined tabulation Number of races IP9 IP9Winning Winning favorites Percentage of winning favorites 31 31Dead Dead heats 2 for win
