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1 BLUE BONNETS- NOTES $ : MONTREAL, Que., June- 20. , Happy Gordon will leave here for New-York next week, where he will join jockey Sonny Workman. The latter has fully re-.-covered from the injuries he sustained as " a result of a fall at Pimlico last Spring. Last week James Rowe, Sr., made a trip to Baltimore and had Workmans injured shoulder examined. The doctors announced that Workman could resume his duties of galloping horses and the lad left his home in Washington this morning to join the Harry Payne Whitney stable at Belmont Park. Workman weighs about 112 pounds and by July 1st will be fit and down to weight and will resume riding about that time. Gordon will make his engagements. At the conclusion of the meeting J. P. Turner will leave for Windsor where he will be engaged in an official capacity at the Devonshire meeting. The T. J. Donohue and W. M. Dixon stables leave here for Hamilton on Wednesday. J. P. Smith has arranged to send the good two-year-old Maurice to Hamilton with Harry Giddings, when the latter ships on Wednesday. Maurice is a candidate for the two-year-old stake run of the opening day of that meeting. Smith plans to ship? the remainder of his stable to Hamilton on Friday. Jockey M. Caruso was an arrival from New York and will ride as a free lance on the Canadian circuit. In the event of the Connaught Cup failing to fill, a handicap will be featured on Wednesday. Jockey G. Taylor, under contract to T. J. Donohue, is now a full-fledged rider. The lads apprentice allowance expired on Saturday last J. S. Hickey, in whose name and colors the useful racer The Vintner races, is here for the meeting. He is being chaperoned by John Donovan. Frank M. Kelly has arranged to ship his horses from here to Hamilton and Fort Erie. At the conclusion of the latter meeting the stable will be shipped back to Blue Bonnets, where they will rest. up. Harold Richards, a prominent New York sportsman, was an arrival, and will remain for the balance of the meeting. .