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1 BLUE BONNETS NOTES I $ ♦ MONTREAL, Que., June 15. Al Gunther is sending up a division of the stable he raced at Belmont Park. T. Queen wired secretary Turner that he would probably ship Joe Marrone III. to Blue Bonnets to fill his engagement in the Windsor Hotel Cup. to be run next Saturday. Jockey G. Zateslo was an arrival from Toronto this morning and has joined up with the Seagram Stable. The H. S. Hart stable, is sending fifteen horses up from New York to race at Hamilton. It is said that Patricia J. will be retired to the stud at the conclusion of the Blue Bonnets meeting. She will be mated to CudgeL Thomas Gorman, secretary of the Con-naught Park Jockey Club, came over from Ottawa. He brought over the check for the purses won by the horsemen at the Con-naught Park meeting. Mike Gorman, whose colors have been seen on most of the Canadian and American tracks for a generation past, was an arrival from Ottawa, Louis Feustel has entered his sprinter Peter Fiz in the third race for Monday. Feutel is bringing up several horses from New York and plans to make the Canadian circuit this summer. At the conclusion of the Blue Bonnets meeting Stanley Gillespie will make a hurried departure for Windsor to be on hand for the opening of the Devonshire meeting, where he is engaged as assistant to secretary MacFarlan. John P. Turner has been engaged to act as racing secretary at Delormier Park. He will also be in the stewards stand at both of the Dorval meetings. Weights for the Windsor Hotel Cup, a handicap at one mile and an eighth, to be run on the closing day of the Blue Bonnets meeting, will be announced by handicapper Turner on Wednesday. The stewards posted a rulling in the secretarys office warning jockeys H. Fisher and F. Dougherty not to be seen in the saddle during the Blue Bonnets meeting. Just what was their infraction of the rules of racing could not be learned. The officials up here this summer have been quite active in their efforts to keep the sport clean and above reproach. William T, the star racer in the W. E. Caskey. Jr., string, was included In the shipment that the Kentucky sportsman and breeder sent up from Toronto. This horse will probably remain at Blue Bonnets for the balance of the summer. He looked jaded at the Toronto meetings and evidently trained off a bit. The following horses have been placed on the outside post position by the starter: Aeipiaekanock, Ann Curtis, Brevet, Circus Kidcr, Donna Mona, Ed Pendleton. Ella Kufus, Fornovo, Lower Five, Rayo, Somerset. Sonata and Stargold. Edward Baker of Ottawa, who has officiated at various tracks in Canada, has accepted the position of associate steward at the meeting to be held at the Mount Royal track, which begins June 24 and continues to July 1. •
