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BLUE BONNETS STAKE RACES | Close for Entries Monday, May 5 — Prospects Bright for a Most Successful Spring Meeting. MONTREAL, Canada, May 3.— The four j stakes of the Montreal Jockey Club to be renewed In the course of the seven days meeting that begins at Blue Bonnets June b, will close Monday, May 5. Nominations must te sent to the secretary of the Montreal ; Jockey Club, 11 St. Sacrament Street, Mont-[ real, Canada. The stakes are the Kindergar-I ten, hB,500 added, 2-year-olds, five-eighths; ! Windsor Hottl Cup, a handicap for 3 year-olds and over, J5.000 added, one mile and an eighth; Connaught up, a handicap for 3-|year- lds and over. ,000 added, one mile and jan eighth; and 1*1 IBM of Wales steeplechase, a handicap for four-year-olds and over, ,500 added, about two miles. It looks as though the Montreal Jockey ! "lur , which conducts its racing over one of I the finest courses in Canada is in for a ! prosperous spring meeting. Many of the boom now in Man land and not a few that | are on Ixing Island will ship to Canada in I the course of the next two or three weeks and some of the best will come to Blue Bonnets. , Particularly strcng Canadian owned outfits coming are the stables of Commander J. K. I L. Koss, the Montreal Jockey Clubs president, arid the Seagram brothers, of Waterloo, Ontario. The Ross and Seagram horses I began their racing at Havre do Grace in mid April and are seeing the current meeting of I the Mar land Jockey Club at Pimlico] through. The overnight purses at Blue Bonnets will be up to the best standard of the past and special attention will be given to steeple- i chasing. No overnight race will have a value |
