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: i ! i 1 VICTORY FOR MRS. F. A. CLARK Blighty II. Triumphantly Carries Her Colors Home First in Hendrie Memorial Steeplechase at Blue Bonnets. MONTREAL, Que., September 11. The Hendrie Memorial Steeplechase over a distance of two miles and a half, which was offered as todays feature of an exceptionally good card, resulted in a splendid victory for Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark when Blighty II. led the way home in front of his stable companion Minata, with the locally-owned Jim Thorpe third. The race was a spectacular one and contested without serious accident. Jim Thorpe and Algardi raced head nnd head well in advance, while the riders of the Clark pair were content to sit still and wait. In the second turn of the field the early pace began to tell and the leaders gradually had their lead cut down and at the closing obstacle the winner drew away into a handsome lead. Minata made a mistake at the sixteenth fence and Haynes lost his stirrup iron. From the time the winner took the lead the result was never in doubt, although he won by a small margin. Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark was called to the stewards stand and Sir Montague Allen made the presentation speecli and presented the handsome cup that is awarded the victor amidst rounds of applause from the members on the lawn and in the stands. The Earl Grey Handicap, for three-year-olds and over at n mile and a quarter, resulted in an easy victory for J. MacManus three-year-old son of Uncle Continental when Kings Champion, racing the final eighth of the distance, ran away from his opponents. , The fields for todays card was productive of spirited racing and form backers were rewarded. Despite the cloudy and unsettled overhead weather conditions, a large crovd journeyed to the course, the largest of the meeting by far. The new addictions to the mutuel buildings proved at times inadequate to handle the betting. It is said that the plans of the Montreal Jockey Club call for the erection of "a new mutuel bundling at TSIue Bonnets. At the conclusion of the current meeting the present building will be razed and the new structure will be completed by next spring. Eugene Levering, Jr., owner of the Glen Ivor Stable of steeplechasers, will arrive here on Monday. He will remain for the remainder of the Blue Bonnets meeting, at the conclusion of which he will leave for Toronto. DRASTIC ACTION AGAINST G. PHILLIPS, The stewards of the Montreal Jockey Club have issued a ruling refusing the entries of George Phillips and denying him the privileges of the grounds of the Montreal Jockey Club, for practices said to be detrimental to the best interests of racing. Jockey T. Nolan, the premier rider of the J. K. L. Ross stable, left last night for Havre dc Grace to ride Boniface in his stake engagement there. He will return to Canada on Monday. Commander Ross has arranged to ship five or six of the best horses he has at Belmont Park to Toronto to fill their engagements at the Woodbine meeting. The Canadian division of the stable racing at Blue Bonnets will be shipped from here to Dorval and then to Toronto. Commander Ross, himself, left for New York last night to witness the running of the Futurity at Belmont Park. He will return to Montreal next week. George Hay, who is here in the interests of the Ontario Jockey Club, looking after the shipment of horses to Toronto, lias arranged to send all of the steeplechase horses racing at Blue Bonnets direct to Woodbine. Mr. Hay announced that no cars will be available for the shipment of flat horses to Toronto until the conclusion of the Dorval meeting and that the Ontario Jockey Club would much rather that owners of the flat racers remain in Montreal until after the Dorval meeting is concluded. Mortimer Mahoney, who will look after the management of the mutuel department at Dorval, will spend tomorrow at that course looking after the details necessary to the oppning of that meeting. Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark was an arrival in Montreal this morning. She is here as the guest of Mrs. J. K. L. Ross, who gave a luncheon at the clubhouse at Blue Bonnets today in her honor. Sir Montague Allen, Lady Alien, Mr. and Mrs. Colin Campbell and a number of society folks were guests at the luncheon. i A
