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EXCELLENT RACING AT DORVAL PARK Milestone Wins Like a Good Class TwoYearOld Trainers Punished for Careless Equipment Montreal Que June 2 Wellbacked horses swept the card at Dorval Iark this afternoon ICvenlybalanced fields went to the i ost in a ma ¬ jority of the races and interesting sport resulted Kvery horse programmed faced the barrier The Qiiiney Stable showed up a likelylooking twoyear old in Milestone which galloped home the easiest sort of a winner in the sixth race lie seem ¬ ingly outclassed his opponents and won by four lengths after being crowded back to last place in making the turn out of the backstretcli backstretcliA A close finish attended the running of the second race in which the oddson favorite The Spirit came on from behind in the homestretch and just inaiuigcd to get up in time to beat Cordon a noe in the linal stride W L Olivers Filly Delphla one of the choices in the third race met with a mishap during the running She got caught in a jam on the turn out of the hackstretch and fell heavily Jockey Hanmer fortunately rolled under the inside fence and escaped serious Injury Acton who had the mount on Rose Garden was blamed for the accident and at the conclusion of the afternoon a ruling from the stewards suspended the meetingSeveral hoy for the rest of the meeting Several trainers were lined by the stewards for the inconsistent use of cquipiuent W M Martin was lined 25 for using blinkers on Mimico without reporting to the ollicials C T Casey and T Mc Ctilrts were lined the same amount of taking the blinkers off Broom Straw and putting them on Duke of Chester ChesterAfter After Faker won the opening iace he changed hands Lewis Garth imrchasinsr ihe colt from Capt W F 1resgrave Faker will be schooled through tlie field fieldJudge Judge Joseph A Murphy staled this morning that hi would shortly announce some important plans in connection with the racing at New Orleans next winter IK intimated that several owners and riders who participated in the racing there last winter meetingII will be missing at the next meeting II D Brown who is at present in Havana looking after the remodelling of the track proper at Mariaii ao will also make known his plans shortly for the meeting in Cuba next winter Mr Brown contem ¬ plates tiling and regrading the track and spreading a new top dressing on it during tin summer Indications are that the CubaAmerican Jockey Club will enjoy a most prosperous meeting next winter Many of the rich Cubans have already sent agents to the United States with commissions to purchase some high class racing material materialThe The stables at Blue Bonnets are fast filling up with the important owners who took part in the recent Woodbine meeting Gwyn Tompkins arrived yesterday with his string of jumpers and Hat horss and Kddlo Why to arrived with Col J s Hendries stable Others already on the grounds are hi horses of Capt W F Presgravo Thomas Clyde Kdward McBride II G Hedwell J S Tyree tt Davies M Daly Qulney Stable and Andrew G Blakeley The track at Blue Bonnets this spring is said to be faster than at any time since tlie course was constructed constructedEdward Edward McBride has announced that he will ship his stable of crack twoyearolds to Saratoga ths summer Besides Pesky and George Smith the string also includes Kd Henry a colt by Cunard Melton Mowbray MowbrayThe The Hacliuieister machines tlie latest thing In parimntuols have arrived at iRlue Donnets and are all in place ready for the opening day Tlie old betting ring building has been remodeled and the whole plant appears to be in splendid order Sec ¬ retary Nortlwy was a visitor at Dorval this after ¬ noon to arrange for stabling accommodations for those owners who are racing here and who intend taking part in the Blue Bonnets meeting meetingAnother Another half mile track is being constructed in Montreal It is located about two miles from Delor imicr Iark on the Back river The plan is to have the plant completed by the end of July and to give two meetings this year This will make the tifth track in the vicinity of Montreal
