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STAKES FOR BLUE BONNETS Windsor Hotel Cup with ,000 Added and Other Features Provided for Spring Meeting. MONTREAL, Que.. May 9. — Four stakes to be renewed at Blue Bonnets in the course of the spring race meeting of the Montreal Jockey Club that will begin June 7 will close Monday, May 14. The stakes are the Kindergarten, ,500 added, for two-year-olds, at five-eighths; Windsor Hotel Cup, .010 added, a handicap of one mile and an eighth, for three-year-olds and over ; Con-naught Cup, ,500 added, a handicap of one mile and a quarter, for three-year-olds and over, and Prince of Wales Steeplechase, ,500 added, a handicap of about two miles, for four-year-olds and over. Following the precedent of Maryland racing the Montreal Jockey Club will charge no entrance fee in any stake. But there will be a starting fey of 5 each in the Kindergarten, Connaught Cup and Prince of Wales Steeplechase and one of 0 in the Windsor Hotel Cup. Despite the heavy taxes the values of the Montreal Jockey Club stakes to be renewed this year will not be lowe~ed. They will be up to the standard of last year. There will be a steeplechase every day at Blue Bonnets, with ,200 to ,500 added. Handicaps for flat runners will have similar values. The races will be run over the only course in Canada that is one mile and a quarter around and equipped with a backstretch extension that permits the running of races of seven-eighths, seven and a half furlongs and one mile around one turn. The Blue Bonnets course was built on the model of the old Sheepshead Bay course, which was the last word in American race tracks. Only at Belmont Park. Aqueduct and Saratoga are there steeplechase fields as roomy as the Blue Bonnets field. Three of the Blue Bonnets stakes will be open to horses from all parts of the world. They are the Prince of Wales Steeplechase, the Windsor Hotel Handicap and the Kindergarten. The Connaught Cup will he restricted to horses owned prior to May 1. 1!*23, by Canadians residing in Canada. Five horses must start in different intei-ests or the race, at the discretion of the stewards, may he declared off. That the coining Connaught Cup will be declared off, however, is extremely improbable. There, are enough horses in Canada that can meet the conditions to insure a field of ten or a dozen starters. In addition to the stakes there will be a challenge cup presented by Field .Marshall the Duke of Connaught and the Duchess of ConnaughL
