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BREAKS CANADIAN RECORD L0VETIE RUNS MILE IN l:38y5 IN BEATING JACK ATKIN AT BLUE BONNETS. Whidden Establishes New Track Hecord for Mila and a Half — R. F. Carman Furnishes Two Winning Favorites — Sweepaway Disappoints. Montreal, Que., September 14. — Track records were again reduced at Blue Bonnets this afternoon. A new mark for a mile and a half was made by Whidden, while Mrs. L. A. Livingstons Lovetio established a new Canadian record for a mile when lie galloped home in 1:384 in the closing race. The fastest mile on record in Canada previously was 1:384. The card was a good one, the lields being evenly balanced and most of the linisbes found the winners under hard drives. Only two favorites won and both came from the stable of fi. F. Carman. M. Cambou beat a bad lot of maidens in the second race, while Starbottle won the third race in a canter from good opposition. The biggest upsets of the afternoon came with the running of the lirst and last races. In the former James Kowes Sweepaway was made an odds-011 choice and was heavily supported, but she could do no better than linish third. Sweepaway was slow to leave the post, bitt at that she broke in front of the winner. She was badly outrun to the stretch turn, but at the finish was closing stoutly. The winner in this race turned up in Leah, which beat Baytborn a neck. In the closing race Jack Atkin was always at odds-011. Lovetie found the task of beating lum an easy one. but interference which came soon after the start helped to encompass the defeat of the favorite. Lovetie showed a performance that was in keeping with the form he displayed as a two-year-old when he raced witli such good horses as Dalmatian and the best of bis age in the east. The pace in the race was last all the way. the first three quarters being run in better than 1:12. and at the end lovetie was going away. Starbottles improvement today probably was due to a change in his equipment. Mr. Carman decided to try the colt without blinkers and he ran a much better race. He trailed Ta Nun Da under restraint to the stretch, then dashed to the front and was drawing away throughout the last furlong. The mile and a half race furnished a stirring finish between Whidden and Marigot. the former coming from last place and winning by a head in the closing strides. Bye Straw, winner of the sixth race, was boosted t* over his entered price of ,000 by his former owner. It. F. Carman. The colt was protected and liottght in. Among the distinguished visitors at Blue Bonnets; this afternoon were August Relmont, bis wife and son and E. D. Morgan. Mr. Belmont Is on his way to Quebec on a moose hunting trip and stopped over to see a bit of racing. Mr. Belmont, who is chairman of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, under whose rides jumping races here are run. was a guest of the stewards during the running of todays steeplechase. He commented favorably on the Rlue Bonne ta plant and promised to participate in the sport here again next Spring. Mr. Belmont and bis party left for the north tonight. Mill on the Floss, one of the Canadian-breds In the Seagram stable, and a mare whose defeat of Caper Sauce at Windsor last summer was responsible for a scandal, died at the Blue Bonnets track this morning. She took a cold while being shipped hero from Windsor and developed pneumonia. The stake blanks of the Florida Live Stock and Agricultural State Fair Association were received by Joseph McLennan this moaning and were eagerly sottght for by the horsemen here. Indications are that the meeting at Jacksonville during the coining winter will exceed in point of importance that of last year. Mr. McLennan reports that all but one or two of the big owners here have spoken for stalls. Pallycastle. Dr. Scott Ives good steeplechaser, injured himself so severely last week that be will probably have to be destroyed. Many of the local newcomers in racing have purchased mares with the intention of getting a l et-ter class of horses for the Kings Plate In future years. Nearly all of the new purchasers are well-known business then in the city of Montreal, Who are evincing keen interest in racing. Among them are Sir II. Montagu Allan. Hugh Pa ton. Dr. McEach-ron. A. B. Ogilvie. C. I.. Hervey, C. S. Campbell and Rudolph Forget.
