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ALL IS READY AT MONTREAL INDICATIONS POINT TO MOST SUCCESSFUL MEETING IN CLUBS HISTORY. Racing Enthusiasts from All Parts of America Gathered in Canadian City and Will Be Regaled with High-Class Sport. Montreal, Que., Soptomlicr 0. — What promises to he the banner meeting of the Montreal Jockey Club opens tomorrow. Gathered here are turfmen and race ■ goers from aB sections, including a large delegation from Saratoga and New York. Riue Bonnets, the finest race course in Canada, never looked prettier than it does at present. Although I he plant is a new one the club has lieon making improvements right along and the grading of the lawn from the grandstand to the betting enclosure will be greatly appreciated by race-goers this tall. The going promises to be good for the opening day, although the track was slow and sticky in spots this morning, following a downpour of rain last night. A high wind and strong sun dried it out this afternoon, and provided no rain falls in the meantime fast time should he the order tomorrow afternoon. Quality is well represented in he races for tomorrow. Many owners of the smaller stables have dodged Blue Bonnets this meeting in order to take in the hiilf-mile-track racing at Toronto, while quite a numlter shipped to Kentucky. There are plenty of horses on the ground to till the races, however, and sjnirt of a high order should be the rule at the present meeting. A number of the big stables that came from the metropolitan tracks arc represented in several of the races tomorrow. Resides the Kings Plate, there are offered as features the F.arl Grey Can, which calls f or • a journey of a mile and a quarter, a steeplechase-over the full Coarse am! a sprinting race in which Jaek tkiu. Prt tend. Magazine. Starbottle and City Fisher are among those named to go. The Kings Plate, which is purely a local affair, has always aroused keen interest among the French-Canadians. There are six carded in the race this year and it looks like an open affair. All of the oflicials are on hand and the staff will lie the same as at the spring meeting. A. B. Dade will do the starting. Joseph J. Burke will he the presiding judge, Francis Nelson and Major William Hendrie will be the stewards, while F. W. Oerhnrdv and Joseph McLennan will look after the business connected with the secretarys olbce. Jockeys Eddie Dugan. McCahey. C. II. Shilling and O. Archibald were among the riders that came from New York this morning. J. Reid. who will ride for E. R. Bradley at the Kentucky meetings, left Windsor for Saratoga last night to join the Bradley stable. The Bradley horses will be shipped to Lexington Septomtier 12. The two-year-old. Rash, which was claimed out of a selling race by Maurice Welsh, was re-purchased by S. A. Clop ton at an advance of 00. Donald Macdonald will not start again until the running of the .o K Dominion Handicap at Fort Erie. Abont thirty bookmakers put down their names to cut in at tomorrows drawing. This number ■gybe increased by some of the late arrivals from New York in the morning. Albert Simons purchased Van Den from James Rowe before shipment to Montreal.
