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CONVEYS RIDING A FEATURE Pilots First Three Winners of Day at Blue Bonnets Montreal Track Heavy and Holding. MONTREAL, Que., June 21. Perdition, black gelded son of Eternal and Tara II., carried the blue and red silks of J. E. Em-brey to victory in the Mount Royal Hotel Trophy Purse, feature offering of the second day of the Blue Bonnets meeting, when he raced to a handy two and one-half lengths victory before H. R. Smiths Surly, while Mrs. R. Russells Air King was third, a head back and two and one-half lengths before Dr. C. Campeaus Winston D. The riding of Johnny. Convey featured the afternoons sport when he piloted the first three winners. Convey rode for the stable of Frank Gilpin of Toronto and first started riding ten years ago. He has been an absentee from the saddle for the past three years and is staging a comeback at the meeting. A good crowd was on hand for the sport which wasraced under cloudy skies, with the sun only breaking through at intervals, and over a very heavy and holding racing strip. In the feature, Perdition was ridden by C. E. Payne, who rated him in close attendance of the speedy Surly for the first six furlongs, and moving up when called upon after straightening away in the stretch, easily took command and came away in the final sixteenth to win easily. Surly faltered badly through the last furlong and barely lasted to stall off Air King which had come from well back for the place award.
