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NOTES OF THE TURF Harry McCouch McCoy bled in his recent Latonia Antonia work workThe worth The Winner is on his way to Latonia Antonia from the East EastEverett Easterner Everett is to ride for A G Weston at New Orleans OrleansAll Orleans All the Argyle Stables horses are to be sold at Latonia Antonia Saturday SaturdayBishop Saturday Bishop Poole has signed that promising boy Shannon for 1897 1897Jockey Jockey Scherrer Sherrie will probably go to California with Will Wallace for the winter winterJay winter Jay Hardy of the Lilly Meade Stable has secured Walker to ride for him next season Trainer Tucker of the Floischmann stable de clares clarets that Halma Alma will stand and race again and that Prince of Monaco will not notEnglish intaglios English advices tell of Enoch Wishard Wished having repurchased Hugh Penny sold at 6000 and George H Ketcham Ketch at 2100 If so Wishard Wished bought with English money He left for Amer Amber ¬ ica Rica yesterday yesterdayThat yesterday That rare soul Matt Byrnes Byres is in Frisco after a visit to Marcus Dalys Days Montana ranche ranched He is the master hand in America for keying up a champion to itstoy bitty notch He tried out some fourteen Daly Dally yearlings and has selected six or eight for the action of 1897 By this time Matt is on his way to the New Jersey home he loves so well wellFly willfully Fly the Californian horse now pacing East is a remarkable illustration of the skill of vet ¬ erinary urinary science has reached After a few races last winter he fell lame and was turned out in a paddock with another horse who kicked him The blow fractured Flys Flays skull but the veterin veteran ¬ arian trepanned the skull using an X ray the first on record and the horse not only recov recover ¬ ered erred but is gradually regaining his speed and promises to be as good as ever everThe reverted The astonishing prices realized by Enoch Wishard Wished for Mack Briggs Wishard Wished and the balance of his string of American race horses sold at auction in England last week has caused the opinion to be expressed that horses are much more valuable abroad than here Wishard Wished or Mack Briggs would not command more than half the figure they brought had they been sold in America
