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BREAK MONTREAL RECORDS MI.XOANA AND EDDA ESTABLISH NEW If ARKS AT BLUE BONNETS. Former Runs Seven-Eighths in 1:24*A and Edda Cuts Record for Five and One-Half Furlongs to j 1:00 — Lovetie Only Favorite to Score. Montreal. Que. Depttas tar 12. — The quality of tin- racing at Mm Bonarta this iftnMN was of a High order. Evenly balanced fields wont to the post the finishes ill some uf the races wen so stirring as to amuse keen enthusiasm. In only one instanee did the favorite finish lirst. Lovetie aloue saving form followers from a Waterloo. Lovetie came from behind and did not show in front until the last twenty yards, when he fat up to heat the t mug Big st iek. The greatest surprise of the afternoon was furnished by tlie Schorr table when Edda heat the oddn-aa favorite. SVinnroliis, a head in a stirring fetretcb drive. Archibald was in a measure rcapen-isible for the defeat of Seniprolus. In the early stages of the race he took Ptaiprolaa hack and. entering the homestretch, went filial a pull to a drive. Whea liny Bnrna challenged with Edda. Archibald appeared rattled and Hums oiittinished the eastern rider. Two new Hack records were established, one for aeven -eighths of a mile when Mexoana ran the distance in 1 :24 * . and another lor live and a half furlongs when Bdda won her race in 1:M. In the third race Lore Me ran three-quarters in 1:12?.. l,oveties victory was the hist he had scored sim-; laat Spring when he heat the fast sprinter Bed Hi vet :it Toronto. apt. W. F. Prcagmvcs colors were carried to victory for the tirst time in many months •Then bis good-lacking colt, Itaytborn. beat the favorite a head in the opening lash. In the steeplechase only two of the eight starters linislied the course without a misbap. The winner turned up in the locally-owned Brendan, which beat Prince by a long ataiglu. Magellan, which linislied third, lost liis rider at the eleventh feme, but was remounted. Jockey A. Lang, who came to Canada with K. V. lletTner s stable, was called to his home in Brooklyn to attend the funeral of his mother, who died yesterday. Aa the field came down the loan hoaaestretch in the fourth race. dog ran on the track at the rontons post. Class succeeded in steering clear of 1 1 i iii with Mexoana. but Cuy Kisliev struck the dog and this in a measure helped to defeat the latter. Spellbound, winner of the Karl J rev Cap on Saturday, is reported to have spread his f M»t in the race and will not again race for a few weeks. Jncknjl A. Walsh arrived from New York this morning and will ride for B. D. Williams stable during the remainder of the Canadian season. Provided trainer .lames Bowe does not sail for Franco on September lis be will be a visitor at the Woodbine meeting at Toronto. Walter House lias changed his plana IDOnt coming to Canada and will ahip his stable to Louisville. Jockey Butwell will accompany him to Kentucky. The attendance at Bine Bonnets this afternoon altnoal equaled that of the opening day. specula lion was brisk and thirty-three liooks cut in. Jockey Pollock, who was reported to have broken his shoulder as the result of a fall from Hergoo in Saturdays steeplechase, was at tbe track this afternoon none the worse for his mishap.
