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MONTREAL STALLS IN DEMAND. Prominent Eastern Owners Will Patronize Approaching: Fall Meeting at Blue Bonnets. Montreal. Que.. July 27. — The stake list for the fall nieetUIS of the Montreal Jockey Club, which will be held at Ihe Blue Bonnets track September 10 to 17, inclusive, has just beea announced. Four open events are provided and two for which province-breds only are eligible, one of them being the Kiugs Plate. This will be the first occasion of the running of the latter in the fall of the year. The four open stakes are the Hochelaga. the Earl Grey Cup. the Champlain Selling Staki-s and the Stratheona Steeplechase. The Hochelaga is a handicap for two-yesir-olds, with an added value of ,000. Last year this event was at a distance of seven-eighths, and this season it has been reduced to three-i|iiarters of a mile. The Earl Grey Cup is also a handicap, but for three vi-ar-olds and upward. The value will be ,200 added, besides a piece of plate presented to the owner of the winner by the Montreal Jockey Club. The distance will be one mile and a quarter. The Champlain Selling Stakes is at one mile, and will have an added value of ,000. It will be for three-y ear-olds aud upward. The Stratheona Steeplechase is a handicap over the two miles and a half course", for fonr-year-olds and upward. It will have in added value of ,000. The club has already received applications for stabling from horsemen not now racing on the Canadian circuit. Communications have tx-en received from Gwyn Tompkins and Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., from Saratoga, where they are now fitting their horses, asking accommodation for ten and twelve horses respectively. August Belmont has also beea heard from at the Rostigoucho Cluli, Matapedia. Que., where he is enjoying an outing. Mrs. L. A. Livingston, who is also at Saratoga, writes to state that she will be on hand wlien the barrier is sprung in Senteather, and that she will have twenty -nine horses in her string. These owners will ship direct to Montreal from Saratoga, the jump lieing a short one. and if there is no racing In New York after September 1. the best lot of horses yet seen at Blue Bonnets will lie 011 the ground.
