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HORSES DOING WELL AT BLUE BONNETS. Improved Appearance Follows Summer Sojourn at Montreal Track Preparations for Fall Meeting. Montreal, Que.. August 10. The horses now stabled at ISIue Bonnets course, which are mostly Canadian-owned, are being given a steady preparation for the fall meeting which opens on Saturday, September 9, and continues until Saturday, September 10. Tlie material for the Kings Plate race arc the best ever available for this event. There are eight named and all are well advanced in preparation. They are being schooled regularly and will go to the post in excellent condition. Among the other horses now at the course arc some owned by Mrs. L. A. Livingston that were shipped here from Fort Erie. Included in this lot is the horse Lovetic. He lias recovered from his ailment of the early spring and is lielng galloped steadily. There is now little doubt about ids being ready to race here, as he shows ills old-time form. There are a number of two-year-olds in tills string that have not started yet and they will make their debut at Blue Bonnets. Sotcmia, which did not do well at the early meetings, is now at herself and will carry Mrs. Livingstons colors in some of the stakes and handicaps here. . John J. Ilyland lias a striug of a dozen horses that summered here and are even now ready to race, he having gone along steadily with them. G. R. Tompkins lias rested here all summer with his string of jumpers and they have taken on considerable weight. Bigot, Bello.and Jimmy Lane look to be the best of the lot and take to their schooling readily. They will not lie asked to race until the. meeting heje. This trio, along with The Prophet, have been named in the stakes here and at Toronto. Sir Wooster was turned out after the meeting at Baltimore in the spring and if he goes on as well as he lias all summer lie will be brought here to race. The string of steeplechasers owned by John Lowe, including Byzantine, are tit and ready. Byzantine has improved greatly in appearance as a result of his summer sojourn here. Word lias been received that many horses will ship here after the Hamilton meeting. Applications are steadily coming in for stabling and all are being accommodated. . There are over 000 stalls at Blue Bonnets in the best possible condition and there will lie no scarcity of stabling accommodations this fall. The track is in as nearly perfect condition ns possible and fast time is now being made over t in morning trials. The club will look after all applicants, being enabled to do so because of the large number of stalls available.
