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UPSETS AT BLUE .-BONNETS- h CHANGING TRACK LEADS TO DISCOMFITURE OF FOLLOWERS OF FORM. - Plaudmore Wins Principal Feature of Card with Great Ease Society People" Again .Present in Force, i Montreal, Que., September 13. A race for hunt- ers on the Hat was" one of the attractions at Blue Bonnets this afternoon. The event proved a strong drawing card for tlie. clubhouse contingent, aiid society turned out in force, many families prominent in Montreals social set being present. There were several other interesting races on the program and the fields in a majority of them were evenly balanced, with the result that picking the winners was no easy task. Upsets came frequently during the afternoon. Theo Cook being the only successful favorite. Most of the other winners were outsiders in the betting and the success of so many long shots enabled the layers to partially recoup losses sustained during the previous days. Tlie biggest upset of tbe afternoon came with the. running of the fourth race, a condition affair at a mile. The betting on the race pointed to Great Heavens as the probable winner. Prince Ahmed, after opening at short odds, receded to 14 to 5, but at post time there was a little call for the Bed-well horse and his odds were cut a couple of points. Plaudmore. favored by a running start, led his field for the entire distance. Prince Ahmed ran as thq betting foreshadowed. Taplin kept him well on thtj-outside all the way and the horse covered moru ground than any other contender. After taking a circuitous route he finished second and his showing did not at all suit close; observers. The hunters fiat race went to Fincastle. This horse led his field during inos.t of tlie running and won with marvelous ease by half a dozen lengths from the odds-on favorite. Stalker. The latter lacked speed and failed to run to his best form. Jockey Howard landed Hedge Rose a winner in the opener, a dash for two-year-olds. He .came from behind in the stretch and drew away into a commanding lead in the last sixteenth. Howard also piloted the winner of the third race, in which he had the mount on Amos Turneys Theo Cook. The Turney colt beat his field with ease after leading through out. Sight, at odds of 20 to 1. beat the favorite, Joe Gaitens, in tint second race, while Olive Ely. another-long shot, led her field from start to finish in the sixth. The closing race went to Stromelaud. which won by three lengths. William" Walkers useful plater Edwin Gum. wept wrong during the running of the sixtli"race "alia,-" pulled up lame in lioth frpntlegs. The mare Poslug a starter on Saturday, was cut down and. her injuries "will necessitate her being thrown out of training: for the remainder of the season. . ... "; Joekie Eddie Walsh was suspended for three days bv the starter- for disobedience at the post. - Mr. Frank J. Robinson of Halifax has been appointed provincial -secretary" of the National Bureau of .Breeding for Nova Scotia-. Mr. Robinson is president of the Halifax" Transfer Company and Is well known on Canadian and New York tracks.
