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MONTREAL MEETING GOMES TO A CLOSE CLOSEPlate Plate Glass Has Easy Tiine in Winning the Con naught Cup for Robert Davies Montreal Quo June 8 A recordbreaking crowd turned out at Blue Bonnets this afternoon and even standing room was at ft premium The grandstand was taxed to its capacity and about 4040 persons made themselves as comfortable as possible ou the i lawns and iu tlie Iteltiug shed The Montreal Jockey 1 Club furnished an eightrace program It i it included besides the Prince of Wales Steeplechase t the Connaught Cup The conditions of the latter event made the race little better than a farce Plate Glass practically having a walkover Todays victory certainly made Plate Glass the champion of the meeting He started three times here this j spring and was returned the winner on each occa ¬ sion The son of Plaudit also beat the Seagram colt Bockville in the ruuuing or the Counaught Cup at Woodbine and it looks as if he will Ix in ¬ vincible in Ihe races for Canadianowned horses so long as he retains hit present form He simply cantered all the way in todays race and won under restraint Beside a handsome gold cup the race carried a net vaiue of 9o5 which brings Plate Glass winnings since Mr Davies purchased him at Norfolk last spring up to about j000 j000Highbridge Highbridge proved an easy winner of the Princt of Wales Steeplechase Only three of the seven starters finished the course without mishap St Abe the favorite of the race being among those that went down He took a nasty tumble at the eighteenth fence where he was running in second position and Little Karl fell over him High Hat and runningThe Buckthorn catno to grief earlier in the running The tabled history of the Prince of Wales Steeple ¬ chase is as follows Year Winner AWt Jockeyi Val Time WOS Touchwood 4 145 Saffel 075 310 1009 Kara G 158 J Lynch 1455 331 1910 Minto 4143 Kelloher 1295 341 1911 Steve Lane 8 142 Lynch 11107 1912 Highbridge G 152 Simpson 1103 3 The Schorr stable furnished two ot the four fa ¬ vorites that won during tlie afternoon in Hamilton and Froglegs The latter showed a smart perform ¬ ance in the sixth race He conceded all the way from eight to twentyeight pounds to everything iii the race made all of his own pace and beat Guy Fisher half a length in u driving finish finishThe The biggest runup in a selling race on the Can ¬ adian circuit in a long time came after Hamiltons victory In the seventh race A G Blakeley whose Brosseau finished second bid Hamilton up from 1100 to 210 KU advance of ff20S The ejlt put iu for Brosseau one by Sain Louis spottier by J W Schorr and one by William Walked In the drawing the latter secured the hdfse for U420 U420Albert Albert Simons departed for Hamilton orihcht with the Whitney horses The hipme rit was in ad e in two cars Jockeys Guy Burns Ambrose and But well went with the stable T Joseph McLennan received word from pavc Leary that lie would be at Fort Erie with twelve two yearolds belonging to CharlesKohler IheyVill IJH raced under the name of the Kaiuhpo Stock Farm William FarmWilliam Garth this morning sold the twoyearrOld Garth to T J Love A Scott Ives also sold the gelding Saliau to J Combs
