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BLUE BONNETS TO OPEN TODAY Abundance of Horses on Hand for Spring Meeting of Montreal Jockey Club ClubMontreal Montreal Que June 2 The Montreal Jockey Club lias provided a well balanced program for the opening of its meeting at Blue Bonnets tomorrow The card is made up of seven races with the mdsor Hotel Cup a dasli of one mile and an eighth as the feature There are no lopsided fields and all seven races should prove good betting affairs Con trarv to expectations there are a superlluity of horses here this spring Kvery sfcill on the grounds lias n occupant while many are forced to remain at the half mile tracks in the vicinity A great iiumlier of followers of racing arrived tins morning from various points not a few coming from as far as Louisville The Toronto specials brought a couple of hundred while as many more came on Hie New York trains trainsJudging Judging from the crowds that were in attendance at Delormier Park last week the people here arc hungry for the Pjwrt The racing should he good for the reason that all of the horses are about tUc same class classThe The club has made many improvements and the whole plant has bren repainted the paddock has been rearranged and ouc of the mutoiils booths has been installed in that enclosure The steeplechase course has also received attention and the Jumping racs here this year promise to be strong attrac ¬ tions tionsThe The Windsor Hotel Cold Cup will bring together all of the liesl threeyearolds on the circuit al ¬ though the conditions of the race call for three yenrolds and upward Ilorron Buskin and Barne gsit are among those carded and the race means practically a renewal of the Toronto Cup run at Woodbine n Saturday last lastTwentylive Twentylive entries were made in the fifth race but tis the track is only 100 feet wide live of the number were put on the also eligible list listAmong Among those who arrived from New York this morning wcro Tom Shaw Al Hanf Ike Ilackleberg William Beverley Tack Stnrgis It Mondleshoii T I Shecdy W A Drains and J McDonald McDonaldTwo Two carloads of horses came from Baltimore and three from Luisville The special trains which ar ¬ rived from Toronto yesterday brought 25 horses horsesW W C Clancey arrived from Woodbine this morning and he was forced to divide his string part goiug in one stable and part in another anotherA A gang of counterfeiters who operated at Pimlico this spring put through a number of forged tickets at Toronto on Saturday last on the race won liy Horron Two men were arrested one being a local blacksmith who attempted to cash one of the forged tickets that was torn lie claimed that he picked up the ticket from the ground The Pinkertons are at work on the case and it is expected that the gang will IKJ run down It is said that the counter ¬ feit tickets were printed in New York and that they were a good imitation of the originals
