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MOUNT ROYAL MEETING CLOSES. Montreal. Que., August 20. The second and final meeting for this year of the Rack River Jockey Club was brought to a close this afternoon with tin offering of nine races. The attendance was the largest that has ever witnessed racing at a local track this year ami has perhaps never been surpassed at any track in Montreal. The entries for the Kempton Park course, where racing opens on Monday, closed here this morning and attracted well-matched fields. A number of horsemen who inteidod shipping to Ottawa, remained over to race at the r.ew course across the river. There is an innovation in the program book for the autumn meeting of the Dorval Jockey Club, that might be followed by other clubs. The club has not charged anything for feed privileges and the prices to be paid by the horsemen to the man who has the privilege are published in the books. Hay is quoted at 25 a ton, oats at seventy cents a bushel and long straw at 2 ti ton. Capt. W. F. Presgrave, the manager of the Dorval Park Jockey Club, returned to Montreal this week and is loud in his praises of the meeting at Saratoga. He says that he never saw better crowds nor better racing. The apprenticeship agreement, binding W. D. Rlchey to Cecil E. Knight, has been declared null and void by Steward Martin Nathans.. n. owing to the contract having been incorrectly drawn.
