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NOTES OF THE TURF Charley Carmichael is in California with the Chicago contingent contingentThe contingent The gossip is that there will be no more rac race ¬ ing King under the auspices of the Detroit Driving Club ClubThe Clutched The City Council of Hot Springs has passed an ordinance licensing pool rooms at the rate of 300 per month Verus Veers and Roy Lochiel Cloche lost to the Potts par ¬ ties by mortgage foreclosure will be sold Wed ¬ nesday essay morning at the Chicago Horse Exchange ExchangeThe Exchange The New Orleans pool rooms and the New Orleans track are in a natural conflict because the former saps tho thou attendance of the latter on account of foreign pooling poolingSecretary pooling Secretary J Gratz Graft Hanly Hanky of the Queen City Jockey Club declares for a ided aided money stakes and declares those of tho thou guaranteed order to be thorns in the flesh of horsemen horsemenThe horsemen The hadicap handicap table figures worked marvelonsly marvelously well on the last race at Frisco yesterday The table yielded these estimates Summertime 269 Ostler Hostler Joe 262 Wyoming 251 Walter J 227 227St St Louis elects to begin racing May 1 1897 and continue its meeting indefinitely Louis ¬ ville vile will open the OhioKentucky array after Neport Newport May 6 for 15 days Latonia Antonia will follow on May 20 for 30 days to be followed by Oakley Ankle for 30 days daysThe dashed The yearling bay colt by Laureate La Tosca Tosco while being worked on the Morris Park track November 23 broke both fore legs and was de ¬ stroyed strayed He was in charge of A J Joyner Joiner a d his former trials showed him to have been a most promising colt coltGround clothbound Ground was broken a few days ago for the new track at Fort Erie Canada Work will be pushed and it is expected the track will be ready for a June meeting A 35000 ironframe ironware grand stand will be erected and a large outlay will be made for stables and other buildings buildingsAs buildings As indicated by stallion fees English racing is full of health Amphions Amphioxus fee for 1897 is 750 Ary Cary shires 750 Carnages Carnage 250 Florizel Floridly IIs Is 500 Kilwarlins Kiwanis 375 Marcions Marcos 1000 Mintings Minting 500 Melanions Melanin 500 Morions Morons 500 Ravensbury Ravens s 500 St Frusquins Brusqueness 1000 with subscription for 1897 full Sir Vistos Vistas 250 Springfields Springfield 1000 Snrefoots Surefooted 500 Whittiers Whittier 200 200From From eighteen to twenty books are doing business at the California tracks The last drawing at Ingleside Ingles showed these firms Wall ¬ ace Co Stuyvesant Stevenson Club H Huffman Co Eckert Becker Co Oakland Club Cook Co W E Nixon Waldman Walkman Co W S Torpie Thorpe Rialto Club Joe Rose E M Games Foxhall Focally Club Ridley Riley Co Elie Elise Perles Peerless Harlan Hartland Co Geoige Geiger Rose and Harry Harris Besides these there were the usual field and combination books booksM books M Cannon headed the list of English winning jockeys on the flat up to Nov 20 Out of 696 mounts he had won 159 and lost 537 T Loates Loathes was second with 637 mounts won 158 lost 481 The eight next in order are F Allsopy Alloy mounts 821 won 103 lost 718 F Finlao Findlay mounts 637 won 96 lost 541 O Madden mounts 658 won 86 lost 572 J Watts mounts 258 won 76 lost 182 F Rickaby Rica mounts 422 won 72 lost 350 S Loates Loathes mounts 543 won 67 lost 476 J Fa gan Egan mounts 479 won 63 lost 416 A White mounts 367 won 57 lost 310 310Some Some of tho thou best fall work at the Kentucky Association track weight up was done by a division of yearlings from the stable of E F Simms Sims of Paris They were worked in pairs A bay filly by Order Ruby Royal sister to Fla Flab villa and a bay colt by Order Nokomis sister to King Lee went together The filly carried 105 pounds and the colt 114 tho thou filly winning by half a length the quarter in 23 A bay filly by Meddle Lady Goldsmith was sent a quarter in 23 with about 114 pounds up in a gallop The time was taken by Messrs Messes Wallace Mc ¬ Clelland Leland Hiram Pierce and other wellknown welkin turfmen Turkmen and the work was made so easily as to rank with the best of the year A colt by Ber Beer san Catherine C also belonging to Mr Simms Sims worked with weight up in 232 without turning a hair And now they say in Kokomo Kokako Ind Indo that Tod Todd Sloan is the premier jockey of America So How When Where Theres Theresa no denying of the youngold young fellows ability But there are others Enoch Wishard Wished has purchased of J M Isola Isolate Mount Sterling Ky Carnero Caner b c 2 by Candle masSister asSister Geneva for 3500 Ho is well en ¬ gaged gagged in the hreeyearold stakes of next