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NOTES OF THE TURF Outside of stake races the Oakley Ankle fields are by rule limited to twelve starters startersThe starters The starting device used by Mr Pettingill Petting at Oakley Ankle is that used at Ideal Park the Grovel ingDwyer winegrower rubber band bandThe Brandt The annual inspection at Woodlands Barney Schreibers Schreiber noble farm at Bridgeton Bridgetown Mo was held Sunday A party of 300 was taken to the farm on a Wabash special entertained in inErincely hinderingly style and showed the s res Rees dams race Erincely Princely orses gorses and youngsters owned by the Master of Woodlands The Morello Marcello Pennyroyal filly who will race next reason as First Born was the star of the parade paradeThe parade The powerful Burns Waterhouse Warehouse stable is to go to California from Oakley Ankle Saturday Jim McCormick and Eddie Jones go with the horses horsesTrack hoarsest Track Superintendent Frank Clark of the Coney Island Club is to go to England this fall especially to build a dirt training track at New ¬ market for Pierre Lorillard LorillardThe Lorillard The stewards of the National Steeplechase Association have suspended the California jumper Red Cloud and his owner G Webb for the balance of the Brooklyn meeting meetingThe meeting The 1898 Kentucky Derby conditions are an ¬ nounced bounced The guaranteed value is 6000 and the race at 1J4 miles with 3 pounds allowance for geldings and 5 pounds for fillies Nonwin Knowing ¬ ners nears of a 3yearold race of 1500 are allowed 5 ounds bounds and maidens 10 pounds The Clark takes of 1597 is to be worth 4000 and the Oaks 3000 3000There There are flashy rumors of Eastern yearlings The Morris Brothers have a yearling brother to The Friar which greatly resembles the big chest ¬ nut colt He is larger than The Friar was at the same age and is said to be more promising J A Bennett has a full brother to Huron and G W Johnson that can run fast and there are several in the Keone Keene division that are credited with being very fast They are an extremely wellbred wellhead lot and have size and substance to commend them themThe tether The modern racing joke is New York Mer Mere ¬ curys curs stud horse type claim of being the rec recd ¬ ognized cognized sporting authority of America No map of recognition is published with Mercurys Mercury bad and skeletonized skeleton charts of Oakley Ankle and Brooklyn A third chart is not published be ¬ cause the guerilla tracks around Baltimore are not in touch with its newspaperic newspaper life nowa Nowak ¬ days Perhaps St Louis Windsor and Ideal Park are not within the American sporting authoritys authority range Notions nothing payoff ism a personal matter and news everything with a hungry public which decides on a basis of service what is its authority
