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PATRONAGE IS AGAIN GOOD ANOTHER BIG CROWD VISITS BLUE BONNETS AND ENJOYS THE RACING Oliver Lodge Makes Disappointing Showing as Over whelming Favorite in Race for Canadian Canadianf f Bred Horses Montreal Quo Tune 0 Another big crowd was In attendance it Itltie Bonnets this afternoon With only one more day remaining before the meet ¬ ing closes local racegoers took advantage of the opportunity to witness the sport While the card was not lunch from the quality standpoint the lields were well balanced There were two handi ¬ caps one for Canadianbred horses and another a steeplechase over the twomile course There was also a race for maiden twoyearolds and another fur jockeys who had never ridden a winner Large fields went to the jwist in both of tliese races and outsiders won both of them The first went to He ipiiram white Toddling captured the other The littr was ridden by II Watts and he was pre ¬ sented with a handsome gold stickpin by the stew ¬ ards as a memento of his success successOliver Oliver Lodge with T Wilson in the saddle upset calculations in the third race for which he was a 1 to 2 favorite He met with a series of mishaps first stumbling and going to his knees and then on the stretch turn swerved in behind the leaders He managed to stagger in third beaten a head for sec ¬ ond money by Strife The running of the horse was a big disapiHilntmcnt to his stable connections connectionsAfter After Toddlings victory in the second race he was bid up 300 over his entered price by 1 W Iledrick whose Chemulpo linishcd second He was retained by his owner owneriardner iardner and Kye Straw were kicked while at the post In their races on Saturday last and their in ¬ juries will prevent them from starting for several days daysA A It London received word from Kentucky that T Wi Schorr would ship a division of his stable t from Louisville to Ottawa to take part in the in ¬ augural meeting of the Comianght Park Jockey Club which is scheduled to begin on Saturday next The Canadian owners Hohcrt Davies and J K Sea ¬ gram will also semi part of their stables to the new track trackTom Tom Boylan who was employed as foreman by Hugh Penny and who left with the horses King Avondale and Kagle Bird for India last summer returned from Bombay on Saturday last He reports that both horses have yet to win in India Kagle Bird started twice and was beaten by a native ony in one race at a mile King Avondale has yet to i go to the post Boylan reports that the races at Bombay are conducted without booking of any sort but that the Calcutta meeting has both the book ¬ makers and tin mutncls Eddie Ames who took King Avondale and Kagle Bird to India will return to Canada some time during the summer to purchase almnt IndiaA half a dozen more horses for racing in India A carload of horses will leave here for Butte at Hie conclusion of the Blue Bonnets meeting In the consignment will be the stables owned by F K Itaird Moore Johnson B Kzell and J G Wagnon Jockeys Hopkins ami Snyder will accompany their employers to Butte ButteHartlett Hartlett McLennan one of the stewards at Blue Bonnets and captain of the Buck Itlver polo team left for New York tonight to be on hand at Mcadow hrook for the opening game of the series of polo matches between the English and American teams tomorrow Tlienj are many polo enthusiasts in Montreal and the party that left tonight occupied I 1 two sleepers sleepersJohn John McCafferty trainer for J S Tyree lodged a protest witli the stewards against Superstition being allowed to start in the Jacques Cartler Soiling Stakes at Blue Bonnets tomorrow The horse was t claimed out of a selling race at Pimlico by W 1 Carson from Dr Tyrce and under the Jockey Club rules the stake engagements do not stand Under the rules of the Canadian Itaclng Associations the engagements stand and the protest was dismissed
