Blue Bonnets Fall Stakes: Six Feature Attractions Provided for Second Meeting of Montreal Jockey Club, Daily Racing Form, 1921-08-11

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BLUE BONNETS FALL STAKES Six Feature Attractions Provided for Second Meeting of Montreal Jockey Club. MONTREAL, Que., August 10. Six stakes that will be decided in the course of the fall meeting of the Montreal Jockey Club at Blue Bonnets course. September 3 to September 10 inclusive, will close cn Monday, August 22. Nominations must be made at the offices of the club at 11 St. Sacramento street. Montreal. These stakes are the Hochelaga Handicap, ,500 added, for two-year-olds at three-quarters; Earl Grey Handicap, ,500 added, three-year-olds and over, one mile and a quarter: Hendrie Memorial Steeplechase, handicap, ,000 added, about two miles and a half; Bartlett McLennan Steeplechase Handicap, ,000 added, about two and a half miles; Provincial Nursery, ,500 added, two-year-olds, five-eighths, and Kings Plate, ,500 added, three-year-olds and over, one mile and a quarter. In addition to these specials three other attractive fixtures will be run. These are the Blue Bonnets Breeders Stakes, ,500 added, for Canadian bred three-year-olds, one mile and a half; the Derby Cup, ,500 added, a handicap for Canadian-owned horses three years old and over, one mile and a half, and the Mackenzie Challenge Cup, ,000 added, a handicap for three-year-olds and over, one mile and three-sixteenths. The Blue Bonnets Breeders Stakes closed on June 1, 1918, with fifty-seven nominations, which speak eloquently of the expansion of the thoroughbred producing industry of Canada. Most of the nominations for this race were made from farms in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec on which are domiciled thriving thoroughbred nurseries. Most of the thoroughbred production of the Dominion is confined to the;e rich and populous provinces, because Ontario and Quebec have, for nearly half a century, consistently encouraged production by the systematic promotion of racing. For a long time Toronto led the other cities. For a long time motion of racing, but of late years Windsor and Montreal have become formidable rivals of the Ontario metropolis and the sport is in a flourishing condition at Hamilton, Ottawa and Fort Erie. The Hochelaga, Earl Grey, Hendrie Memorial and Bartlett McLennan Handicaps are open to hcrscs of all parts of the world, and they bid fair to attract to Blue Bonnets many of the best thoroughbreds from the States. The Kings Plate is restricted to horses foaled and raised in the Province of Quebec that have not been out of the province save between March 1 and November 1 of any year since 1914. Horses even of the Province of Quebec that have won either a flat race or a. steeplechase in which other Canadian-breds have participated are barred. To the ,500 added by the Montreal Jockey Club the King of England adds fifty guineas. The Provincial Nursery is for 2-year-olds foaled and raised in the Province of Quebec. In the Hendrie Memorial a challenge cup is presented by Col. William Hendrie in memory of his father, the late William Hendrie, who was one of the pioneer breeders of Ontario, and a loyal and consistent friend and promoter of racing and steeple-chasing throughout the Doniinioij. For years the elder Hendrie raced in the United States, as well as in Canada. In ISOS, while the United States was at war with Spain, Martimas, a son of Candlemas, won the Futurity Stakes at Shecpshead Bay under the Hendrie silks. Martimas had notable success as a stock horse in Canada after he finished with racing. The Blue Bonnets program will be high class throughout. No overnight race will have a value in added money of less than ,000. There will be a steeplechase every day over a course that Is as good as the best to be found on the North American continent. Blue Bonnets plant is one of the most attractive. The main track is one mile and an eighth around, and the stretches are equipped with extensions that make racing true and easy for the competing horses. Many improvements have been made since the horses left Blue Bonnets in the spring, and Commander J. K. L. Ross,, the recently chosen president of the Montreal Jockey Club, has planned to put through others in the autumn, after the finish of the impending meeting. A


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