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ST. PAUL DEFEATS ACONI For Supremacy Between Ontario and Quebec King Plate Winners. : Lord Shaughnessy Leases Flib- bertygibbet and Wins Club Members Race. MONTREAL, Quebec, September 14. To settle the supremacy between Ontario and Quebec, the respective winners of each provincial Kings Plate, St. Paul nntl Aconi measured strides in the Breeders Stakes at the Blue Bonnets track this afternoon. St. Paul was returned the winner over Aconi. Rpmanelll restraining St. Paul behind Aconi for the greater part of the mile and a half journey. When "well in the stretch he shook him up and, taking the lead, won in easy fashion. A race which held more importance to the local racegoiug public was the running of the third. This was a dash of three-quarters for three-year-olds and over. The conditions were that the horses be either owned or leased by a member of the Montreal Jockey Club. The lessee voluntarily paid tlie Owner fifty dollars for running in the race. Fllbbertygibhet, which has been a consistent racer in these parts and was leased to Lord Shaughnessy, was the one to be returned victor. Venal Joy and St. Germain offered a spectacular battle for second place, with the former prevailing. Lord Shaughnessy was escorted to the stewards stand and Miss Martha Allan, a daughter of the president. ofxThe-, Jockey Club, presented the victor with" a mYnlatnre Pupr The -race -was- the -menus! of drawing the largest clubhouse attendance to the lawns of this meeting, prominent financial and social people witnessing the running. The opening race of the day furnished a thrill to the crowd when Reconnaissance got the best of Fator and ran away a quarter of a mile. "When the barrier was released she began quickly, and displaying much speed, won from Greybourne and Heath Bell! Racing conditions this afternoon were vastly improved over those of yesterday and a large crowd journeyed to the course. The steeplechase framed for maidens over the two-mile course resulted in a victory for Bencher, which took kindly to the sport, followed the early leader to the stretch and drew away near the end to win in a canter. Dnstin Farnum liolted soon after the start. John Walters, trainer of the G. M. Hendrie stable, wired Harry Giddings, asking for second call on Romanelli during the Woodbine Park meeting. R. Willis, who has been riding for the Hendrie stable on the Canadian circuit, has returned to Kentucky. TO FEATURE STEEPLECHASING. It is said that several of the Canadian tracks will feature sleeplechasing next year. It was only a few years back that every track in Canada had a steeplechase course and this branch of the sport was highly popular with Canadian racegoers. Thomas Stevens has taken over Rave On and four other racers, which he is schooling through the field at the Mount Royal course. Jockey Joe Dreyer announced his intention of going direct to Havana from Detroit at the conclusion of the Kenilworth Park meeting. William P. Riggs, who has been acting as one of the stewards at Blue Bonnets, returned to Maryland tonight, where he was called to look after the details necessary to the opening of the fall meeting at Laurel, which immediately follows the close of the meeting at Havre de Grace. Among the many improvements made to the Laurel plant is the erection of an inclosed press stand for the newspaper men. James Healy will ship the string of jumpers he is racing here to Woodbine Park on Friday. He will leave for Havre de Grace himself, where he will remain until the opening of the Ontario Jockey Clubs meeting, when he will return to Canada. Jockey E. Fator, who has been riding in particularly good form at Blue Bonnets, will leave for Toronto tomorrow night to join the stable of his employer, Stuart Polk. Fator has won two stake races here and Is at his best riding over a considerable distance of ground. W. Fitzgerald has received word that stalls for his horses were not available at the Thorncliffe Park course, so has changed his plans and will send his string from here to Dorval Park. Sheridan Clark, secretary of the Dorval Park Jockey Club, has announced that conditions of several of the races there would be changed to suit the horses which will race at the Dorval Park meeting.
