Lovers of the Horse 



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1 HE Club-house of the Montreal Jockey Club 



MONTREAL JOCKEY CLUB 



IT is no stretch of imagination to say that the new race-course at Bhie Bonnets, 

 the home of the Montreal Jockey Chih, is the finest and tlie most up-to-date 

 in the Dominion of Canada. Nature, money and brains have been united 

 into a combination which has given the pubhc of Eastern Cana(hi. and Montreal 

 particularly, an ideal resort for the "sport of kings." Of all its improvements that 

 have marked the progress of the Province of Quebec and tlie City of ^Montreal, none 

 will prove of more benefit than the formation of the Montreal Jockey Club and the 

 building of such a first-class track. Its benefit will be felt more in the years to come 

 than at the time of writing. The plant is l)eautifully situated west of the moun- 

 tain, consisting of one hundred and seventy acres of most fertile ground, being conven- 

 iently accessible to the city, and reached either by the street cars or by railway. The 

 circumference of the track is one and one-eighth miles with two chutes, one for the 

 mile, and the other for the seven furlongs races. The home stretch is a 

 particularly long one, being nearly three-eighths of a mile in length, which is beneficial 



