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STAKES AT BLUE BONNETS ♦ ■ No Entrance Fee to Four Fixtures Run During Summer Meeting. . . — — + Windsor Hotel up, nnnauglit Challenge up and Prince of Wales Steeplechase Among Brents Downs for Decision. ♦ MONTREAL. Que.. April 10— The Montreal Jockey Tub. which will hold a race meeting at the Blue Bonnets course at Montreal. June 7 to 14 inclusive, has adopted the Maryland Jockey Club idea with reference to its stakes. No entrance fee will be charged in any of the four fixtures that will be renewed in June with an aggregate value of 2,500. These stakes are the Kindergarten. ,000 added, for two-year-olds, five-eighths: Windsor Hotel "tip. ,000 added, a handicap for three-year-olds and over, one mile and an egihth : Connaught Challenge Gup. ,000 added, a handicap for three-year-olds and over, one mile and a quarter, and the Prince of Wales Steeplechase. . .".00 added, a handicap for four-year-olds and over, at about two miles. Secretary Bonis Angevine announces that these stakes will close May It at the offices of the Montreal Jockey Glub. 11 St. Sacrament street. Montreal, Ganada. 11I.IE BONNETS IDEAL TRACK. Blue Bonnets course was constructed some fifteen years ago on the old Sheepshead Bay model. The main course is one mile and an eighth around and there is a hackstretch extension that permits the running of races of seven-eighths aixl one mile around one turn. The Blue Bonnets course is the only course on the continent. Belmont Bark excepted, on which such racing is possible. Fnder the direction of Commander Ross and the sportsmen whom he brought into the Montreal Jockey Glub directorate, the Blue Bonnets plant has been vastly improved, particularly as to its facilities for the comfortable sheltering of patrons. The Blue Bonnets stand is one of the biggest and most commodious edifices of its character in Canada, and the Blue Bonnets steeplechase fields are the roomiest and safest. Steepleehasing. the mest spectacular feature of thoroughbred horse racing, has always appealed strongly to the sportsmanship of Canadian racing folk. Following the Maryland Jockey Clubs example at Bimlico. the Montreal Jockey Club will stage a steeplechase daily, not only through the impending early summer meeting, but also in the autumn. Blue Bonnets cross-country events will pay ,200 to ,500 each in added money. Horses that race on the flat will be provided for with the same liberality that has tontimifil mi twelfth Sage. STAKES AT BLUE BONNETS Continued from first page. marked Blue Ronnets sport during the last four or five years. The Connaught Cap, instituted and maintained to encourage thoroughbred racing and production in Canada, is restricted to horses owned prior to May 1. 1!2::. l.y Canadians residing in Canada. A challenge cup is presetted by Field Marshal. His Royal Highness the I Hike of Connaught, K. C. and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Connaught. Five horses, the pn perty i I different owners, must start or the race may be declared off. Last spring the Windsor Hotel Cup Handicap was win by Commander Rcss veteran long -distan e runner Boniface, which is now at siiiil duty In Kentucky, liisi Dream was aacond and Parisian Diamond third. The management of the Windsor Hotel of Montreal presented a trophy. Another trophy will be presented by the same- establishment to the winner of the cup of 1923. Last springs. Kindergarten Stakes was won by Heeltaps, under the silks of Edward I-. Whitney of New York. The contender was Lilt, a daughter of Spanish Prince II. and Melody, which bore the colors of Commander 1 b .ss.
