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1 1 ! 1 MONTREALS RACING DATES THIS YEAR. Annual Meeting Postponed — Breeding Bureau for Quebec — Value of Kings Plate Increased. Montreal. Que.. January 14. — The spring meeting of the Montreal Jo key Club will commence on Saturday. June . and continue until .lime 90. As was the case last year this meeting will run concurrently with Gravesend and Sheepshead. and will attract horses that have raced at Baltimore and Washing ton. together with perhaps 12" or 150 thoroughbreds from the New York tracks, which, after racing at Montreal will go to the Kenilworth Iark meeting at P.uffalo. If is expected that the spring meeting at Blue Bonnets will be the greatest social event of the season in the Province of Quebec. Lord Giey. who was prevented from attending the races last year owing to the death of his daughter, will lie | resent in state and society folk are leaking forward to the event with the keenest interest. The autumn meeting will probably commence on August 20, and continue until September 12, or possibly until Septemlier 10. This makes it fit in after the close of Saratoga and Kmpire City. Last pan Montreal attracted 100 horses from Empire City, ninety from Saratega and about M0 from ISclmont Park. Sheepshead and Gravesend. These horses swept all before them in Canada and won about seventy-five per cent, of the races at the Toronto meeting, which followed Montreal. This year the New York section will be even more strong, for among the newcomers expected at Manilla! are: J. P.. Madden. Thomas Hitchcock. Jr.. A. EL Zinimer. J. K. Whlenor. .1. H. MiCorniiok. R. F. Carman anil S. C. Hildreth. The aunual meeting of the club has been adjourned until February, when the president. Sir II. Montagu Allan, will be back from Fuiope. It is expected that this years Kings Plate will have doub.e the value of last year, and upwards of twenty horses foaled and owned in the province are alii ady being put in shape for this lace. The breeding industry has been accelerated by the construction of the new course, and the scarcity of good stallions in the province is being overcome by owners who send their marcs across the border to be bred to stallions of the New York P.ureau of Breeding. This extra trouble and expense, however. will soon be unnecessary, as [dans are almost complete for the establishment of a Quebec Bureau of Breeding, which will lie the forerunner of a n.i tional bureau to include every province in Canada. It is proper that Montreal should lead in this work. tor the first breeding bureau in America was started on the Island of Montreal over fifteen yo:.is ago iV the Montreal Hunt, and the result was a type of saddle horses and hunters of which the city is justly proud.
