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BLUE BONNETS NOTES MONTREAL, Canada, June 13. C. H. Sprague lost the three-year-old Venom. This racer bolted into the fence while being galloped at the Mount Royal track. He was in ured so badly that it was necessary to destroy him. L. A. Cassidy after spending several days arranging details for the beginning of the improvements to the Miami Jockey Club plant returned to New York.. Earl Walden, an employe of the Mutual department, left for Maryland on recept of n.ws of the death of his grandmother at Mid-dleburg on Tuesday. Hobt. McKeever has arranged to ship the W. Wick horses from here to Hawthorne at the conclusion of the Dorval meeting. Marjorie C, came out of her race at Ottawa with a badly cut tendon. She will be on the shelf for a time. O. F. Burkart was an arrival from Toronto. H. J. Mclntyre, the representative of the Hamilton Jockey Club, is here to attend a meeting of the Canadian Uacing Associations which will be held at Blue Bonnets on Monday. Through an error Judge Fullers weight in the Toronto Cup was .sent out at 96 pounds. The horse carried 10s pounds in that race. A mixed carload of horses arrived from Kentucky yesterday. The stable of W. I... Young is included in the lot. Trainer Bringloe of the Seagram Stable was at the course on crutches, lie is well on the road to recovery from an attack of blood poisoning in one of his feet. A special train will be operated between Porval and Blue Bonnets to transfer horses to Dorval at that meeting. Trainers W. L«. Shrewbridge and J. J. Murphy were fined 0 each by the stewards for failure to have the proper equipment on Firth of Forth and Canister in their races yesterday. Harold Goodwin purchased the two-year-old Salvita from James Fitzsimmons at private sale. Jockey Bourassa lost his apprentice allowance when he landed Isanian a winner in the second race Thursday. Train* r V. Irvine is certainly establishing a record for consistency with the Kdward F. Whitney racers. During the month of May the Whitney horses went to the post no less than fifty-four times and were out of the money only on six occasions. Quail P. was ordered scratched by the stewards when it was learned that she hail been hurt while being loaded in a van at the Mount Royal track. Louis I.arivee, racing editor of Le Canada and a member of the Quebec Boxing Commission, is a big booster for the skull caps which have been adopted by the Maryland and Kentucky Racing Commissions. He pro-I posed that boxers taking part In all matches in Quebec In the future be compelled to wear these caps. Francis Nelson, also a firm believer in this part of a jockeys equipment, is quite confident that at the next meeting of the Canadian Racing Associations a rule will be passed making it compulsory for riders to wear them.
