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NOTABLEMEETfflGPROMISED ROYALTY WILL PATRONIZE BLUE BONNETS RACING SCHEDULED TO BEGIN TODAY Track Heavy from Long Wet Spell but Sunshine la laPredicted Predicted for Opening Sol Lichenstein to Join JoinRanks Ranks of Layers at Canadian Course Montreal Que May SI After a long continued rainy spell the weather mans forecast for tomorrow Is for bright sunshine for Montreal aud vicinity so the Montreal Jockey Club should have a fine opening of its spring meeting of 1012 Despite tuu heavy track an evenlybalanced card lias been pro ¬ vided Of the seven races the feature will be the annual miming of the Windsor Hotel Cup a dash of mile and an eighth in which some of the beat horses here are named to start Most of them are good mud runners so there should be but few withdrawals withdrawalsThe The club has decided to put on two mutuel ma ¬ chines this spring The French system will be used which is entirely different from that In vogue at Toronto au l on the Kentucky tracks The layers will also be on band and about twentyfive will be iu line Among those who have already asked foe positions are C Walters Sol Lichtenstein T J Shaw J Shelly I J Mclnerney J Melliuger I Hammerschlag Kole Pearsall Bob Kennedy Rov Offutt Max Marks Henry Hanf Al Hanf M 3 Lewis John Lewis George HIckey David Nicholson Ed Colell J Shcehan Henry Haiues and I J MeGrath MeGrathLike Like at Woodbine the meeting at Blue Bonnets this spring will be a great society function for the reason that their Koyal Highnesses the Duke aud Duchess of Counaught and Princess Patricia will bu in attendance daily The inaugural running of the Connaught Cup will IKS one of the big attractions of the meeting and as at Toronto the race is ex ¬ clusively for Cadunianowned horses All that i needed to make the meeting a record one in point of attendance is fine weather weatherThe The minimum value of the purses this year will be 300 witli 000 and 700 handicaps daily Five stakes will be run during the meeting besides the Wilson Challenge Cut CutLarry Larry Carey agent for the Beverwyck Stable arrived today At the conclusion of the Woodbine meeting he went to the Chesterbrook Stud of Capt E B Cassatt Jn Pennsylvania to arrange for tne shipment of Sir John Johnson to Hamilton The horse will leave Chesterbrook on Sunday Dave Woodford will prepare Sir John Johnson for the fall meetings Mr Carey reports the horse as being Iu grand condition The other Beverwyck Stable horses that were sent on from Toronto arrived here in finis condition conditionSol Sol Lichenstein has decided to join the layers here It will be his first visit to Canada and with his well known reputation as a big operator he Is likely to have a large following on the circuit Hugh circuitHugh Penny yesterday added the gelding Super ¬ visor to his string He purchased the halfbrother to Superstition from William Garth Jreeu B Morris also increased his string by the addition of Arbutus which he purchased from Archie Xlmmcr XlmmcrAlbert Albert Simons arrived yesterday from the Brook dale Farm of Harry Payne Whitney He brought twelve horses with him eleven of which are two yearolds and the other the fouryearold Lahore belonging to James Bowe Three of the twoyear olds that Mr Simons brought to Montreal are tlm property of Mrs Payne Whitney and they will carry her colors at the different meetings iu Canada All of the horses shipped well wellJohn John Lewis who left for Coeur dAlene at thr conclusion of the Pimlico meeting is here ready for business Conditions at the Idaho track did not appeal to Mr Lewis and he returned east and will be in line at the different meetings on the Canadian circuit for the rest of the season
