Detroit Beats The Record

I 'uiroit has gone to the front as a hamess racing centre. The recent Uraovation of its turf managers, of whom t'ne lendintj spirit is Mr. D. J. Campau, in reducing entrance fees to a!l races from ten to five cent. h:is brought out the la-gest isc of high class enfries for the Iilue Ribbon Meeting i ; week ever known in the history of the I ting turf . Horsemen are dceply interested in the success of Detroit's new depauure in this matter of lo'.rer entrance fees and inclorsement of the reform is manifest in the astonishinj list of nominations sein in. The Blue Ribbon meeting of a year ago was second to none in the country in point of earnest racing, fast time and large attendance. Hut beside the carnival of a week henee it seems almost insignificant. In 1890 seventy-six horses were entered for the weeks races. This year, tinder the five per cent plan, one hundred and twenty-three nominations have already been received and three classes vet remain open. It is thought the total will reacli 1 00, or more than doublé the number entered a year ago. All the great stables of the country are represented, from C. II. Nelson's of Maine, to the Pleasanton Stock Farm string of California. Budd Doble will be on hand with the best stable of horses he has ever driven- among othors, the five-year-old, Nancy Hanks, 2:14 and McDoel; 2:15J. Jame's Goldsmith comes from New York with a string of seven fast ones, including the great young horse Leicester, 2:18L, Gean Smith, 2:16 and Mambrino Maid, 2:18. General John Turner of Philadelphia has named a number of famous flyers for the different evenls - among others Kosaline Wilkes, 2:14L and the fast Siglight that is credited with having trotted a trial in 2:12. George Starr brinjjs the champions Margaret S., 2:12 and' Homestake, 2:14i, from California. Andy McDowell of Montana, enters Yolo Maid, 2:12i and Lord lïyron, 2:18 among otiicrs. John Dickerson, Bob Stewart and al! ;he other famous reinsmen of the cast ana west are weu represented in the entry List. The field in the frce-for-all class is wi'.hout doubt the most remarkable ever known. The entrk-s are Guy, 2 : 1 üL ; Ilomestake, '2:14-; Alvin, ü-.Hi; Kosa'iinc Wükes, 2:11}; Alcryon, 2:15; (ean Smith, 2: 15; and McDoel, 2:15. The winner must trot the fastest race on record if weather and track are rijht. i : free-for-all is a fair sample of each ery event on the programme. In all classes elds of the fastest and best the turf are entered. In ■■ many as si.xteen wil] start. Many sensational features have been arrsn;jer! for and oihers of equal r.iporiance will be announced within a few days. Nelson, 2:10J, the fastest stallión that has ever lived is now at the track and in shape to trot the mile of his life. Ile will start to beat his own best record for stallions, 2 The champion pi. Ie team Clayton and I.ynn V., 2:1!) are to be brough't on from New Vork for a fast exhibition. They are owned and will be drivcn bv Matthew Kiley, Esq., president of the New York Driving Club, one of the most noted amateur reinsmen of the metropolis. The gvcat $10,000 stake race has enlisted a fine field of yoiing trotters and bids fair to prove even more exciting than the sevenheat contest of last year in the same event. The horse that nis w ill doubtless trot three heats right arouad 2:10. The big race comes off on Tuesday, July 21, and as Monday will be Blue Ribbon Day - admission free - many will start for Detroit intime to h# on hand for Monday's races, remaining over until after the decisión of the great event of the } ear.