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LONG SHOT WINS AT BLUE BONNETS. Prettyone Scores After Being Backed from 200 to 1 — Planutess Wins Kindergarten Stakes. Montreal. Que.. June 7. — The Kindergarten Stakes, the feature of todays racing at Hlue Bonnets, was won by J. W. Schorr with his recently -acquired Ilaniitess. purchased of William iartli a few davs ago. Plainness, heavily backed bv her owner and neatest by iuy Bint, showed ability as a mud runner and scroll in a driving finish with Deoenev. The race was marred by an accident in which R. L. 1 honias" Moneieif crossed his logs and fell al the tin long post, just as lie was making his run and looming up as a dangerous factor. The races were run over a deep and heavy track and form followers wore all astray in their calculations. Six of the seven favorites were beaten. Planutess being the only first choice that made go.,d. In the third race Judge ljissing. heavily backed by his connect ions, was jumped on at the start and dropped out of contention early. Caster the rxresnaataaces the horse ran a remarkable race and would undoubtedly have won but for the mishap. He finished a good second, closing on the winner. Belle Kingston, in the stretch drive. William Walker, lieshlcs winning this race with Belle Kingston, furnished a great surprise in the opening dash in Prottyonc which beat Allie Blitzen a head in a stirring stretch drive. J»rettvoiie was backed from -Jint t„ |gSj t, 1 ami several of the liooks lost heavily to the race. Sam Bralev accepted one wager from a local in: allied Jillis. laying $:;.0 H to 0 Ailoratioii. winner of the second raeo, was hacked from 1.". to 12 lo I and led her field all the way. This mare was mated with the Canadian Breeding Ibn-caii stallion. Masterman. three wi-eks ago. The steeplechase resulted in a stirring finish, in which The Shaughraiiti got up in the last fifty yards to beat Fiticastle by a small margin. The going was very rough and the jumpers fairly climbed over the ..bstaclos. The Sliaughraun all but fell at several ..f the fenoes during the final circuit, but he outran the others on the Hat. T. Stephens has purchased of William Garth the two-year-old tilly. F.tta May. II. Shannon arrived from New York last night with Susan, a lilly that he in:rc:iasotl of .lames K. Keene. The association announced that the programs of Thursday and Saturday would be made up of eight races. The sixth race of the original program called for a handicap at a mile and an eighth. It failed to fill and the seventh nice will be split.
