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I READY AT BLUE BONNETS Many Improvements Have Been Made at Montreal Course — New Stewards and Judges Stands. TOROXTO, Out., June 5. — Louis Angevine, secretary of the Montreal Jockey Club, was an arrival. His mision here is to consult with Joseph McLennan, who will act as racing secretary at the first Blue Bonnets meeting. Mr. Angevine reports that the improvements being made at Blue Bonnets are just about completed and that the painters will start in working Monday. New stewards stand and judges stand have been errected this spring. The stewards stand is a structure three stories high, the second tier to be used by the timers and the upper story by the stewards. It is built right next to the inner rail in the infield and is patterned after the one at Hialeah, Fla. The judges stand is an open affair, and back of it, lower down, is the weighing room. A plate glass back of this structure enables anyone in the rear of it to obtain an unobstructed view of the finish. At the conclusion of the Thorncliffe Park meeting, Joseph McLennan will leave for Xew York in the interest of the meeting. It is expected that several stables which have not been seen in action on the Canadian tracks this spring will ship horses for the Blue Bonnets meeting. All of the purses have been increased in value, with the idea of attracting the better class horses and every indication points to the meeting being a most successful one. Mortimer Mahoney, who is in charge of the mutuel department, is already on the grounds with some of his staff straightening out things for the opening. A
