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HAS A BRILLIANTS ENDING MEETING AT BLUE BONNETS TRACK CL08E8 IN GLORIOUS FASHION. Record-Breaking Crowd, Ideal Weather and a Splendid Card Mark the Montreal Jockey Clubs Getaway Day — Canadian Records Reduced. Montreal. Que., September 17. — The fall season of racing at Blue Bonnets wound up in brilliant fashion. The clubhouse enclosure was jammed, while a record-breaking crowd occupied the public stand and the lawns adjacent to it. The racing conditions could not well be improved upon. With the delightful weather, a track that was in its best possible condition, and a high-class program down lor decision, it is little wonder that Montreal racegoers turned out in enormous numbers. Besides the Cnamplain Stakes, which was an open affair for three-year-olds and over, at one mile, there was provided an additional attraction, the Derby Cup. for Canadian-owned horses, at a mile and three-quarters, also the Hendrie Memorial Cup Handicap over the full three-mile steeplechase course. Favorites more than held their own. four of the seven races being won by first choices. In the second race Jack Atkin made amends for his defeat by Lovetie the other day and incidentally reduced by two-tifths of a second the Canadian record for seven-eighths of a mile made bv Mexoana earlier in the meeting. Jack Atkin ran the distance this afternoon in 1:245. The Derby Cup race went to Joseph E. Seagrams Crncbe dOr, which heat Elgin a couple of lengtlis and created a new Canadian record of 3:01 for a mile and three-quarters. The race was a good contest tprough the last half mile, the field hunching up rounding the far turn and running in close order until the last fifty yards, where Cruche dOr drew away. It was the first running of the event and aroused much enthusiasm, especially among the Canadians. The Hendrie Memorial Steeplechase Handicap went to Steve Lane, which lieat Prince Hampton a neck in a sinew -straining drive. Steve Lane ran in the colors of Colin Campliell. whose two-vear-old Canadian-bred Sans Droit won the Provincial Nursery Stakes yesterday. Richard F. Carman took another important race when Starbottle won the Champlain Stakes from rather Indifferent opposition. The Carman colors were also seen in front in the closing race, which went to Areite. The latter led most of the trip and won easily. His victory was the thirteenth scored by the Carman horses during the seven-days meeting. Mr. Carman announced that he would Ship his horses from here to Toronto and then to Fort Erie and Pimlico. At the conclusion of the latter meeting he will sell all but a dozen of his big stable at public auction. Those that he will retain will be wintered at Belmont Park or some other eastern course. The Champlain Stakes was instituted at Blue Bonnets in 1908 and its history follows: Year. Winner. A.Wt. Joekev. Val. Time. 1908 Goes Fast 3 100 Deverich . .,285 1 -.tHi 1909 Great Heavens. 3 102 Goldstein .. 1.245 1-44 1910 Starbottle . 3 107 G. Archibd 1,195 1:881 Sweepaway started again today and failed to win. Albert Simons, who is handling some horses for James Rowe here, sent three favorites to the post at Blue Bonnets and all three failed to win. Sweep-away was heralded as a good one when she camo here from Saratoga, but if what she has shown here is her true form she is not much, in the opinion of Canadian turfmen. Henry McDaniel left for Lexington yesterday to attend the yearling sales. Mclfctniel has a commission to purchase several yearlings for Forrest Rose. He will also pick up some for R. L. Thomas. The Derby Gold Cup, which w-as won today by Joseph E. Seagrams Cruche dOr. was first won bv the present Earl of Derbys great grandfather in 1816 and was in the earls family for five generations. It is a handsome trophy and was much admired by the big crowd at Blue Bounds this afternoon. The Hendrie Memorial Cup was formerly known as the Coodwood Cup and was won by an English nobleman at Coodwood in 1857. It was presented to the late William Hendrie bv a friend and was donated to the Montreal Jockey Club by Maj. William Hendrie. who is now acting as one of the stewards at Blue Bonnets. The Canadian mile record was equaled by Star-botth when he ran the mile in the Champlain Stakes in L3M. An iui| ortant announcement was made by Joseph McLennan this afternoon, who received a telegram from Kdward Maginn that new weights will be announced for the 0,000 Dominion Handicap at Fort Erie on September 19. and that the date set for the running of the race is Octolier 4. A few of the Cheaper class of horses that are here will remain for the six-days meeting of the King Edward Jockey CMfc on the new half-mile track recently completed on an island close to this city, which will be opened on Monday with Ed Cole isj presiding judge and William Murray as starter.
