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OPENING MOST AUSPICIOUS BLUE BONNETS MEETING BEGINS UNDER HIGHLY PLEASING CONDITIONS. Earl Gray, Governor-General of Canada, Graces Occasion with His Presence — S. C. Hildreths Zeus Scores in Stake Feature. Montreal. Que.. Juno ". — Re fore a crowd thnt numbered done to 10,000 and under conditions thai would lie hard to improve iqioii. the spring MUM "f racing in Montreal was ushered in this afternoon .it t in- beautiful Bine Bonneta course near Mount Royal. The iiniilioiiM enclosure was packed and the big lawns iii front of the grandstand was ;i solid I mass. The running of the firs raee was deferred antil the arrival of his Rxcelleuey, Karl Grey, the governor general. S. c. lUldreth furnished two of the afternoons I a ; -is in Utile pal ami Sens. The former proved an salt victor in the afternoons feature, the Wind I -or Hotel 1 n 1 1. a dash of a mile ami an eighth, lor Ihree-jrear-oMB. Zeus was a prohibitive favorit and won ii a canter, eight length* separating him from j cherish at the finish. Incidentally the Hlldreth Iiair v.eie the only favorites that scored dnrlng the! afternoon. The western turfinan. however, furnished two of the beaten chokes in Dinna Ken ami ! Shannon. The tatters showing in the Inaugural Dash j uas a keen disappointment to those who witnessed mis sprinters good form at Woodbine. At no tine ■luring todays mnntng sraa he a factor. Dinna Ken. which has been a tlai failure as a fencer since his arrival in Canada, failed to show the dash that hp did at Ptmlleo. The stiff brash jumps here are not to Dinna Kens liking and he faltered at every Obstacle, finally attseating Jockey W. Allen at the ninth jump. The winner of this race was furnished hv Gwyn Tompkins in a good-looking font year-old railed The Pronhet. Plate Class, which is destined to gu tbrongh the field shortly, heal a hand of shitty -ii inters in the Inaugural Dash. The brief blatory of the Windsor Hotel tup is as follows: Year. Winner. A.Wt. Jockey. Val. Time. 1909 Arondack :. lott J. Melntyre.91,375 1 :5S 1M10 Ualhonsie 3 103 Hlncbdiffe.. 1.3SB 1:53| UtU y.ens fillS C. M- Shilg l. -lio l :." ::• it., twenty -two layers that opeiatcd this sfter-iinon were not able ti handle all the money offered. speculation was exceedingly hrisk. Many regulars ciine from Toronto and helped swell tile volume. Among those who cut iii were: William Beverly, Mob Kennedy. John Mellinger. Julian White. Tom Shaw. •• Pritchard, Eddie Austin. Al llajif. John lit iii. John Lewis. ■•Frisco" Gardner, Ike Garson, Al Slessiimer. Key MVutt. George Voitinau. J. Donovan, Tom Dwyer, Charles Waters ami I.ee Wagner. Jockey Shillings father is here from Texas visiting his son. lie will remain throughout the meet Inc. Ji urge Bern arrived from St. Louis Ihis morning ami Phil llyaius arrived from New York. Al Weston came up from Toronto to witness the opening days sport, lie returned to Wodhine tonight to prepare the horses he lias there for shipment to Hamilton. The division of the Clyde stable that Capt. William K. Presgravc has here will be shipped to Saratoga in a couple of weeks following the close of the SSeeting at l.lue Monnets. Dal-lioiisie. BH Air and Huntersfort, which were turned ■ lit at .Mr. Clydes farm at Salisbury. Md., will be liken up and shipped to gnratug* to he again put in training. Gay Garner, who is doing the lightweight riding for August Belmont, will sail for Fiance Jane 14 to rate the horses that Mr. Iielmont will race in that country.
