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JAVATOS PROVINCIAL NURSERY STAKES. Easily Wins the Feature Race at Blue Rennets Rather a Farcical Steoplechasc. Montreal, Que., September 7. J. Why to furnished the winner of todays feature race at Blue Bonnets, the Provincial Nursery Stakes when Java to galloped home an easy winner over The Lost Bird. The Provincial Nursery is one of the important stakes run on the Canadian circuit for Canadian-bred two-year-olds. The Montreal Jockey Club adds ,000 to the stake and the government of the province of Quebec awards $."00 for distribution among the breeders of the first four horses. In todays race 1. Raymonds Recorder started out with a rush and drew away into a long lead, but. after entering the homestretch. Javato overhauled him, raced into an easy lead in the last eighth and won by a half dozen lengths. Mrs. L. A. Livingston scored her first victory of the season when Man Slayer beat a big band of maidens in the second race. There were only three starters in the steeplechase, but it was a spectacular affair. Sun King, the winner, made a bad landing at the clubhouse fence and Brooks grabbed him around the neck and in some manner scrambled back into the saddle. When straightened out Sun King went after his opponents to eventually win in a canter. Battery bolted around the outside wing at the last jump, where he had a winning chance, and Indian Arrow went around one of the flags between the seventeenth and eighteenth fences. P.otli finally finished the course. The races were run over a drying-out track. The attendance was the largest of the meeting anil speculation was keen. William Garth has sold the two-year-old Cherry Pit to M. J. Daly. The latter is gathering a stable for racing at the Oriental Park meeting at Havana next winter. J. F. Smyth has turned down several offers for his promising yearling by Toddiuglon Hurrah. Smyth lias the youngster at the Blue Bonnet:; course. Arrangements have been made for the transfer of the Iari-niutuel machines owned by the Dorval Jockey Club to the new track now under course of construction at Devonshire Park near Windsor. Matt Feakcs announced that, at the conclusion of the Canadian season, he would ship Mrs. L. A. Livingstons horses to the Rancocas Farm in New Jersey, where they would go into winter quarters. Mr. Feakcs will be busy this fall breaking the fourteen yearlings at Rancocas. One of the number is a handsome filly by Armeath II. Soteniia. winner of the four-mile Kentucky Endurance Stakes run at the Churchill" Downs track, Louisville. Another of the fillies is out of Ophirdale, the dam of Bonanza and Meltoudale. Prince Ilermis, which was jumped on in his last race and slightly cut down, is galloping again. Lew Marion, his owner, contemplates racing him during the winter mouths and retiring him to the stud next spring. Jockey T. Parrington was taken sick this morning and was unable to fill his engagements during the afternoon. George E. Chancellor will leave for Kentucky at the conclusion of the Toronto meeting to purchase several horses. Mr. Chancellor contemplates taking a strong stable to Cuba next winter. Sam Louis has disposed of the sprinter Little Nephew to J. U. Strode. The horse will be rested until the coming meeting at Havana. Admission for the coming meeting to be held at Dorval has been reduced to .
