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BLUE BONNETS CAED GOOD MONTREAL JOCKEY CLUBS SECOND MEETING-TO OPEN THIS AFTERNOON. More Horses Available for the Racing Than During First Meeting Plant in Fine Condition Gossip from Canadian Circuit. Montreal, Que., September 8. The Montreal Jockey Club offers its patrons one of the best cards ever run over the Blue Bonnets course for its opening days program tomorrow. Eight races are carded with the Earl Grey Cup, the Kings Plate and a steeplechase over the two-miles course as features. Large fields are named in a majority of tlie races and as the prospective starters are all evenly balanced, it means that the task of selecting winners will not be an easy one. Some keen" sport should result, especially as the track is in splendid condition. All of the important stables that have been racing ou the Canadian circuit, with the exception of It. F. Carman and S. C. Hildreth, are here. Priscillian, which Mr. Hildreth was handling for August Belmont, will be sent from Sheepshead Bay to join the Belmont horses which are being trained by John Whalen. A tremendous crowd is gathereil here from all sections and three specials from New York are due to arrive in the morning. Secretary Nortliey has the plant in excellent shape. The lawns in front of the clubhouse enclosure and grandstand are covered with a thick carpet of grass and special attention lias been paid to the steeplechase course, which now ranks second to none on this continent. The Kings Plate, which is purely a local affair, will attract considerable attention from Montreal race-goers There are six entered and a majority of them have worked -well for the race. Bushlark is a favorite with tlie dockers, who have witnessed his trials and he will not lack for support. Sans Droit will also have a following, but one of the others may prove a surprise. The race looks to be an open affair. The. Beverwyck Stable Is making a strong bid in tlie Earl Grey Cup. Trainer Woodford has named Aldrian, Bob R. and Sir John Johnson to go and it may he that all three of them will face the barrier. The steeplechase division is especially strong hero this fall and the races through the field will undoubtedly prove a strong attraction. There aro eleven entries in tomorrows chase and Included In the lot are the pick of the steeplechasers that have been racing here this summer. Gwyn Tompkins. William Garth nnd Bartlett McLennan will each be represented by entries of more than one in the race and rumor has it that one of the McLennan horses, Buckthorn, is a promising fencer. Williams will probably have the mount on him and it is predicted that lie will take a lot of beating provided he runs to his work. There are two two-year-old races, both, of which are at live and a half furlongs. Several of the juveniles will be making their maiden effort. Two stables came from Toronto this morning. W. V. Conran arrived with ten and William Walker with six. The promising three-year-old Whist, in the Belmont stable, died here a few days ago of compaction of the bowels. Watervale and Flint Rock, in the same stable, will not race until the Pimlico meeting. Both are being freshened by trainer Whalen. Edda, in the Schorr stable, Ta Nuu Da, owned by C. A. Crew, and T. R. Condrans good three-year-old, The Nigger, are reported as being down with fever contracted while being shipped here from Windsor. The Nigger is said to be in bad condition. There are many more horses at Bine Bonnets now than during the first meeting and the daily cards should fill well. This is due to additions from New York and Maryland. There are over forty steeple- chasers at Blue Bonnets, which is a greater number than was seen at any of the other tracks this season. A number of these were rested here all summer and aro fit and ready. The officials for tlie meeting are on hand and many well-known followers of the turf have arrived from the east and west. Then will be more New Yorkers hero than at other Canadian meetings, duo to the short run from New York. The weather promises to be auspicious for opening day, while the track is faster than during the spring meeting, the rain of tho early part of the week having done it much good. The steeplechase field never looked better nor has it over been faster. Two cars of horses, one from Hamilton and the other from Toronto, where they have been rested up since the Hamilton meeting, came in today. This includes all of the stragglers and completes the list of horses schediUed for racing at Blue Bonnets. The management of tho Montreal Jockey Club has decided to cut out all telegraph wires at the track and will not permit telegraphic messages to be sent from or received at tho course during racing hours.
