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MONTREAL MEETING COMES TO CLOSE. Biggest Crowd of the Meeting in Attendance on Getaway Day — Minto Takes Feature of Card. Montreal. Que.. June 11. — Tlie closing ■ aid of the spring meeting . . 1" the Montreal Jockey Club at traded a tremendous crowd, to Blue Bonnets this afternoon. It was a rewrdrajtendanco for the meeting and this. to.,, despite showery weather. A pro gram of eight races was provided, with the Prince ot Wales Steeplechase seer the full conns as the feature, small fields ruled, the dees and henry track being responsible for numerous, withdrawals. Bartlett McLennan furnished the winn-r of the stake in Minto. one of the most promising green jumpers developed in years. There were six starters and Minto was the only one of the lot that finished without mishap. After rating off the leaders until the last turn af the field Minto moved up with a rush going to the seventeenth fence, and Px.k an easy lend. At the eighteenth jump bath Byssntina and Dr. Pillow lost their riders. ft Tie Straw was caught and remounted bj Nat Bay ami got ascend money, while Cild. whi.-h unseated M.tlain after taking the fourteenth Jump, was also caught and remounted ami finished third. Gild ran coupled with Minto. so the McLennan stable got first and third money in the stake. The tabled history of the Prince Of Wales SCCCpIi chase is as follows: Year. Winmr. A.Wt. .yncxcv . Yal. Time. 1008 Touchwood 1 1 »■: Kaffel ....$ 675 5:19 lPn.i Kara 8 138 J. Lynch .. 1.455 5:31] 1010 Minto 4 14:: KeHehet ... 1.293 3:431 Favorites were bowl I over m all but the steeplechase. John Pendergrast, winner of the necond raee, was 1 ste.i stpni over his catered price ol 09 by P. M. Civill. but was protected and benghl in by his owner. William Walker, whose stable has done parthu larly well here, captured another race today when Orcgna won the third In ■ canter. The closiag dash went to Law ton Wiggins, a re.eut arrival from New-York. Previous to the races Bio Grande and Ethos were sold In In- n. 0 block. Kenneth T. Dawes secured the former for *i." ». while William W.ilk.r pin 1 he std Bthon for .y.:7.".. All bin on. or two oi the stables racing here will be shipped to Hamilton tomorrow or Monday. The ring at Hamilton tins neaxon will be ander the management m Mortimer Mshoney, who goes there forthwith.
