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! • i ; : CONNAUGHT MAKING READY Outlook Bright for Most Successful Meeting at Ottawa Track. Plenty Stabling Room. OTTAWA. Ont., May ».— The Connaught Park Jockey Club is busily rushing its preparations for the annual spring race meeting, which takes place at the beautiful plant on the Aylmer road from Tuesday, June 2, to Tuesday, June 9. This will be the first meeting on the Quebec end of the Canadian Rac- | ing Associations circuit, and it is expected! that it will likewise be one of the most successful in the history of Connaught Park. Hon. Senator Belcourt, president, and Thomas Gorman, secretary, recently returned after a very successful trip to Maryland, where they interviewed owners and officials in connection with the spring meeting at Connaught Park. Joseph McLennan was re-engaged as racing secretary, and Mortimer Mahoney was given command of the pari-mutuel plant. Mr. McLennan and Mr. Mahoney are already making their arrangements and an active campaign for horses Is now under way. PROMINENT AMERICAN OWNERS. Many of the prominent American owners, including E. F. Whitney, T. Healey, J. Hea-ly, A. Swenke, E P. Summerfield and others have arranged to ship divisions of their I stables to Connaught Park, and it is understood that the well-known Canadian owners. I including Commander J. K. L. Ross, Edward | Seagram, Harry Ci hidings, the Messrs. Dy-ment, D. Raymond and others will send all j their horses here. Additional stabling room has been provided and horsemen will find the Connaught Park j Jockey Club ready to look after them in jits usual courteous manner. Applications for stabling room may be sent to Secretary Gorman here, or turned in to Joseph McLennan, who will accept them at Pimlico and Toronto. W. Morrison is looking after the interests of the Connaught Park Jockey Club at Montreal, and about two hundred thoroughbreds will be shipped from there to Ottawa when the Mount Royal meeting closes. Altogether prospects are bright, and there is plenty of stab* ling room and none of the owners will be refused. It is announced that about 5,010 in stakes and purses will be distributed and that there will be the Chateau Laurier Handicap of i?.l,000 and a special purse feature of ,500. The book of conditions for the Connaught Park meeting is now being prepared and will be distributed among the horsemen at Pimlico, Woodbine, Mount Royal and elsewhere. ♦
