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STAKES AT BLUE BONNETS * Generous Provision for Owners in Three Big Handicaps. i Large American Stable* to be Represented at Meeting as Well as J. K. I,. Ross, Seagram and Otber Canadians I 1 MONTREAL. Que.. May 20 —The Kindergarten Stakes and Windsor Hotel and Con-naught Cup Handicaps, will be the outstanding attractions of the Montreal Jockey Clubs June meeting at Blue Bonnets, which will begin June 11 and continue through the ISth. These stakes closed Monday, May 11. The Kindergarten, a dash of five-eighths, for two-year-olds, carries an added money value [ of J2.000 ; the Windsor Hotel Handicap, a. gallop of one mile and an eighth, for three-year-olds and over. 3.000; the Connaught Cup, a gallop of one mile and an eighth, for three-year-olds and over, foaled in Canada. ,200. The Windsor Hotel Company of Montreal will present the winner of tho Windsor Hotel Handicap with a gold cup. The Connaught Cup is a handicap that has become one of the most popular features of Canadian spring racing. With the stake goes a challenge cup presented by the Duko and Duchess of Connaught. members of the British royal family. The duke was once Governor General of Canada, and he and his duchess were widely popular throughout the dominion, nowhere more so than in the province of Quebec. Last springs Connaught Cup was won by the Seagram Bros. Flower-ful, a brown son of Ypsilanti and Bouquet, she a daughter of Kir.lcy Mack, bred in Ontario. SPOT CASH VICTOR IX 192S. The other starters were : M. LeRoys Persistence. Mrs. L A. Livingstons Flaming-Wire, and Commander J. K. L. Ross Chloris, also Isoletta, a stablemate of Flowerful. Spot Cash won the Windsor Hotel Handicap renewal of 1923. for Harry Payne Whitney, and repeated in last springs revival under the colors of Albert C. Bostwick, his present owner. At Blue Bonnets, one of the most admirably appointed plants on the American continent, the thoroughbreds race in a particularly picturesque setting. Constructed fifteen years ago the main course is a course of one mile and an eighth, with a back stretch extension that permits seven-furlong sprints around but one turn. Under the direction of Commander Ross, the leading producer of thoroughbreds of Quebec and the Dominion of Canada, whose splendid stud is domiciled at Vercheras, racing at Blue Bonnets has gained in prestige these four or five years. Commander Ross became president of tho Montreal Jockey Club five years back. LARGE STABLES TO BE REPRESENTED. With Commander Ross and the Seagrams, American and Canadian sportsmen and sportswomen who will support the impending Blue Bonnets meeting are Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs. Payne Whitney. Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark; Mrs. Alexander Brown, F. Ambrose Clark, Edward F. Whitney. Albert C. Bostwick, John E. Madden, Montfort and B. B. Jones, Walter J. Salmon, Richard T. Wilson, P. T. Roche, Mrs. L. A. Livingston. O. A. Razon. Janus W. Bean, Timothy Donohue, W. G. Wilson. James Clark, James Ihelan. Richard Pending, E. I. Summerfield, W. A. Cundiff, G. W. Beardmore. J. Moore, W. S. Murray, Benjamin Hardmg, J. W. Young, F. Swenke, C. C. Smithson, S. H. Dudley, Donat Raymond, Samuel Nuckols, Robert McKeever, C. B. Shafer, William Monteith, Willis Sharpe Kilmer. Patrick F. Joyce, James McMillen, I. T. Leonard, G. R. Allen, S. Gooch. II. G. Bedwell. Frank Farrar. James Arthur. James Healey, John Farrell, Jr., Raymond Bryson, R. W. McCarthy, etc. Commander Ross horses which wintered at Louisville will come this way from Woodbine Park under the charge of Henry McDaniel, who has handled them with conspicuous success these four or five years. The Seagrams have been racing at Havre de Grace and Pimlico and have developed some smart performers, notably Digit, Edisto, Malapert Black Climber. Arno. Play Fair and Redstone. Bedwells string of various ages, also, have shown well in Pimlico racing. » .
