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BLUE BONNETS INAUGURAL Prospects Bright for a Successful Meeting at Montreals Beautiful Course Beginning Today. MONTREAL, Que., Sept. 2 With a change in directorate, the picturesque course of the Montreal Jockey Club at Blue Bonnets ushers in the final meeting of the season on Quebec territory Saturday afternoon, and, from general appearances, one of the best meetings in this section of the country is anticipated. Recently taken over , by Messrs. Joseph Cattarinich and Leo 1 Dandurand, the plant, long established as one of the finest racing grounds in the Dominion, has been given a thorough renovation ; since the new management went into power and no item of importace that will tend to give turf patrons the very best in thoroughbred racing has been left untouched. Decorators have been busily engaged in installing new features in the club i hoiise, while landscape artists have attended laying out flower beds with modernistic designs, . and a huge corps of track helpers . have given the racing surface exceptional care that will serve to make for high class . racing. Judging from the large fields that have been named for the introductory program, on which the Provincial Nursery, a test of six furlongs, for home-bred juveniles, is the ! stellar attraction, large fields are calculated to be the order for the remainder of the s meeting. The Provincial Nursery, a feature that was established many years ago, has ; been contested yearly and since its initial 1 running has been framed for the produce of I Quebec breeding farms. This important fixture . has contributed several good performers to the turf, among which were such stars s as Diadema, Thorny Way and Bryngar, that I performed for J. K. L. Ross, to be followed L by winning performances of Warehouseman, - L Amour, Wigtoi, Uvira and Count t Bruno. Seven events, as usual, make up the initial program and racing secretary J. G. Reeder has provided no less than four that will 1 have decision over a distance of ground. The ; remaining three will witness sprinters testing - their speed over the six and seven i furlongs routes. The list of officials, with the exception of E Thomas P. Gorman, who has been secured L to act as placing judge, will be the same that t conducted the spring meeting, and racing will be carried out under the rules and regulations - of the Canadian Racing Associations. Marshall Cassidy, who has done some of the j finest starting of his career this season, will I be on hand to dispatch the fields for the i coming opening day, following which he will depart for Syracuse to act in a similar capacity. His position following his departure will be taken by T. Rowe. Racine: is scheduled to beirin at 2:45 n. m-
