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NOTES OF THfi Thin TURF Old Major Domo Dom is to be trained again and raced by W J Speirs Piers SpeirsJim Aspersing Jim Brady has gone to Passadena Pasadena Cal for I his health He started Wednesday night I The city council of Sacramento Cal recently passed an ordinance which closes the pool rooms roomsSister rooms Sister Mary has seen her best days She let down badly after her race with Summertime at Oakland Cal recently and will be placed in the stud studL stud L A Legg Leggy left for California Wednesday night He took no horses with him His string is resting for the winter within thirty miles of Chicago ChicagoThe Chicago The English accepted Wishard Wished and Duke and the firms stable but fought Jockey Reiff Riff Yet the Americans stuck to the boy and profited by their loyalty loyaltyPittsbnrg loyalty Pittsbnrg Pittsburgh Phil paid 7500 for The Winner and the change of owners restored the colt to good standing in the East EastWhen Heathen When the St Louis Fair Grounds Association annual meeting is held this month it is likely that Robt Robot Aull All will be elected president and Joe Murphy secretary secretaryJ secretary J A McLaughlin the once premier of Ameri America ¬ can jockeys has supplanted Jimmy McCormick as the trainer of the Burns Waterhouse Warehouse stable His contract is for one year yearThe earthen The effete East which has several times re ¬ jected jetted Tod Todd Sloan now swallows him cigars hiky hickey and all His interests of late have been with Pittsburgh Phil M F Dwyer and general gaudiness of raiment raimentJ raiment J E Seagram sold some horses in Toronto Nov 18 The prices ruled low The highest price was 210 Vicar of Wakefield Lakefield b g 5 by Springfield Bonnie Vic and Bonnifield Connived br g 4 full brother to Vicar of Wakefield Lakefield 165 165There There is little credit to the Cincinnati fable about Oakley Ankle going to mutual and auction betting next season The Oakley Ankle investment hasnt hasn't been one of loss The profit it has reaped is just about that contributed by the bookmakers and refreshment privileges privilegesThere privileges There is to be a northern racing circuit in 1897 made up of Cleveland Detroit Buffalo Pittsburg Pittsburgh and three or four other towns Hay den Dargen Argent of Walter Hayden is the moving spirit in the enterprise which will be successful unless the laws of the states in which the towns are situated do not interfere interfereThe interfere The St Louis Fair Grounds Association is btill till deeply in debt Its indebtedness consists of 250000 first mortgage 126000 second mort ort ¬ gages and a 500000 bond issue of stock The m ney NE was spent in the various improvements on the grounds The former obligation has just been extended until 2006 2006Dr Dr R W Carter has purchased of A J Cas Casa satt sat Chesterbrook Chester Stud Pa for P Lorillard tho thou following yearlings which will be sent to England to race Bay gelding by The Bard dam Equipoise by Enquirer bay gelding by The Bard dam Maumee Maundered by Vauxhall Valhalla and brown gelding by Stratford dam The Dawn by Rayon dOr doer dOrThe Dorothea The FitzsimmonsSharkey decision should give pungency to pugilism Earp the referee and Rile Grannan Granada nearly came to the use of pistols at San Francisco a few days ago Lynch Sharkeys Shakes manager lias Elias a muddy record from baseball down to the turf and pugilism He was banished from racing as the Arizona stable at San Francisco last winter winterMr winter Mr Belmont evidently knows that he took tooksnap tokes snap judgement judgment in the matter of banishing Will WillWallace Wallace as the California Jockey Club accepted acceptedthe accepted the Wallace entries on the strength of a letter letterfrom letterform from Mr Belmont which declared the action against Wallace to be merely local Some twelve horses of the Wallace string are on their way to Frisco including Herman the jumper Higgins the steeplechase jockey has also gone with the stable stableEnoch stablemen Enoch Wishard Wished and W Duke Jr are back from England with what they kept out of their string Hugh Penny and George H Ketcham Ketch Wishard Wished is full of wordy warmth for his English treatment and thinks horses are easier to train in English than American air He says that he and Duke backed Ramapo Ramp to win 150000 for the Stewards Cup race at Goodwood Godhood and that if the horse had not stepped on a stone and hurt his foot so as to swerve clear across a broad near the finish he would have won the race
