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READY FOR RACING AT MONTREAL Weights Assigned the Candidates for the Earl Grey Cup To Be Run Saturday SaturdayMontreal Montreal Que August 20 Over 00 thoroughbreds are already quartered at the Bliy Ifonnct track get ¬ ting really fov the opehlng of thcaiitumn1nOelng on Saturday and more are coming In on every train from the south and west To save stalls stable ¬ men are housed In tents but the weather is ideal and everyone is happy There never was such pros ¬ pects for a great meeting here The stakes filled exceptionally well with an average of fortytwo and the class of horses is fine for a second circuit meet ¬ ing The track is at its very best W A Gorman superintendent of Bclmont Park who was hero on a visit a few days ago and who examined Blue Bonnets critically said that a good horse should be able to run a mile over the Montreal track in 1J7 I never saw such topsoil In my life said he and the grading arid banking is better than Belmoiit Park I heard a lot of good reports from good men about this place and I know now that they had good reason to talk as they did didThe The following are the weights for the Earl Grey Cup one and oneeighth miles tobe run at Blue Bonnets on Saturday the opening day of the Mon ¬ treal fall meeting Horse A Wt Horse Chapultcpec 12 Goes Fast Inferno 0 122 Doubt Martin Doyle 0 120 Sally Preston W H Carey IIS Ontario Acrobat 4 110 Uncle Toby Go Between 7 lir Lally v Cave Adsuui 4 lii Severus Bouquet 114 Dixie Illininel KeidiiiooreOxford Keidiiioore 3 112 Blacksheep Oxford 0 112 Halliard Ellicott 4 112 Water Lake Charlie Gilbert 4 112 Campaigner Zipango 4 112 Bonnie Alan 100 100John John Carroll 0 111 Superstition 07 07Lawrence Lawrence P Daleytt 111 St Ilario 0 0Colonel Colonel Jack 4 108 St Valentine Minnie Adams 3 10S St Noel Miss Lida 4 101 Clements 4 14 14Clell Clell Turnejr 103 Miss Vigilant 5 JW JWCzar Czar 104 Lady Isabel 1 o5 o5Carolina Carolina 0 104 Leon J Ilnymani 02 02Seismic Seismic 10IJ Braggadocio J 00 00Tom Tom Dolan 4 108 Listerlnb 3 SO SOThe The rumor that lias been in circulation that the meeting would be extended for a week and close September 10 is without any foundation Such a thing has never been contemplated by the club and will not be Racing at Blue Bonnets will close September 12 a week before the ailtiimh meeting of the Ontario JockeyClub opelw iit Toronto
