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SCENE SHIFTS TO DORVAL Lake Shore Course to Furnish Montreal With Seven Days of Racing Track Is Rebuilt. MONTREAL, Que., June 24. Montreals racing scene shifts to Dorval Saturday when the seven-day meeting opens at the picturesque lake shor track under conditions that forecast a banner gathering. For one thing, Dorval has secured the cream of midsummer dates, two Saturdays and the Dominion Day holiday, and with the popularity of the course, a successful season is looked for, culminating in the running of the Quebec Derby on the closing day of the meeting. The renewal of the Dorval Juvenile Stakes, a dash of five and a half furlongs, which has been raced annually at the course ever since it was opened nearly twenty years ago, is the opening feature, backed by the Jacques Cartier Handicap. The Dorval Juvenile has attracted a crack band of the best youngsters racing here and brings back to the races the good youngster Wanderoo, which started a winning sequence at Kings Park which has not been broken in the district. He is scheduled to match strides Saturday with Lovers Chat, a Blue Bonnets winner, and others which have been racing well. Joe Cattarinich, presiding genius of the track, decided last autumn that the Dorval course, fast as it was, did not suit him, so he had it entirely torn up.
