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STIRRING FINISHES AT BLUE BONNETS. Montreal Racegoers Treated to Some Interesting Contests in Which Outsiders Score. Montreal, Que., September 1.1. Stirring contests marked the running of most of todays races at Blue Bonnets. While some of tlie ileitis were small, they were evenly matched and close finishes resulted. In the mile and a quarter handicap only three went to the post, but they passed the judges stand in a bunch, with Taboo, the outsider, first home by the scantest of margins. It was such a tight thing that the backers of each thought they had won. The other mile and a quarter race also furnished a strenuous drive, in which the outsider was again successful, Seconke just lasting to beat out The Golden Butterfly. There were only four starters In this race and. like the handicap, they were closely bunched all the way. The race, as a matter of fact, resolved itself into a sprint through the home stretch, all being under stout rcstraiut tlie first mile. St. Abe showed a smart performance in the steeplechase, which was over tlie two and one-quarter miles course. He was ridden by Harvey Boyle and, after being restrained until the last lap. went to flie front with a rush and won by a length in a driving finish with Jimmy Lane. The winner clippci. live and one-fifth seconds from the track record for the distance. The Seagram stable showed up a smart maiden in the second race, a dasli of seven furlongs for non-winners. Like most affairs of this kind, there were several good things, Harry Payne Whitneys Finer aid Isle lieing the choice. The hitter showed keen speed until inside the final furlong, then collapsed. In the last sixteenth Musgrave took Kate Kittleber-rv to the outside and when she got clear tlie filly went to the leaders with a rush and was going away at the end. She scored as if much aliovc the ordinary. In her previous effort at Hamilton Kate Kit-tleberry ran out. Musgrave. kept her on the inside to the furlong post today and in doing so met with some interference. Kilo, winner of the Kings Plate on the opening day, beat another band of province-breds in the sixth race, which he won in a canter. He at once wont to the frout and was never headed. In the opening race, a dash of five and one-half furlongs for two-year-olds, Islaora led all the way and beat Bwana Tumbo half a length. The winner was purchased at tlie sale of the Sanford horses at Kenilwortli and this was her second effort. She possesses great speed and looks like one of the bargains of the sale. Three favorites scored, the successful choices being Kilo, Ren Ioyal and -Isidore. The first -two were at odds-on, so their victories did not affect the layers to any great extent. T. R. Condrans three-year-old, The Nigger, died this morning. He was taken sick while being shipped from Windsor to Montreal and pneumonia developed. Among todays arrivals from New York were Sim Dime, C. Fellows, A. R. Klein and W. A. Porter. A notice was posted in the secretarys office warn ing owners against harboring jockey Van Benschot-ten. The latter left his contract employer. Mas Hirsch, without the latters consent, and Mr. Ilirscn lodged complaint with the Canadian Racing Associations, the Jockey Club at New York and tho Kentucky State Racing Commission. Joseph E. Seagrams horses will leave for Toronto tomorrow night. Three specials made up of twenty-four cars will leave for New York on Saturday night and they will carry over 1,000 racegoers. A luncheon in honor of Karl Grey, the governor-, general of Canada, was given in tlie clubhouse pre-vimis to the races this afternoon. It will probably be Ills Excellencys final visit to Blue Bonnets, as he plans to sail for England in a couple of weeks. Lieutenant-Colonel Lainbton of the Coldstream Guards, a prominent English turfman, was a visitor at Blue Bonnets this afternoon. Jockey W. Allen was suspended for the remainder of the meeting by the starter for leaving the post to a false break with Vilhalla. A. G. Weston has donated tho three-year-old stallion Otter to the Canadian Breeding Bureau. Otter is a line-looking colt by Lissak Mudlavla and was bred by Milton Young. The Eastern Canada Thoroughbred championship was won at the Ottawa fair yesterday by tlie bureau stallion, Valjean, by George Kcssler. Light Wool, another bureau stallion, was third and was regarded by many as the best horse in the ring. The Golden Butterfly was claimed by J. W. Hed-rlck out of the last race.
