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NOTES OF THB TURF TURFThe The Futurity of 1898 attracted 783 entries Marcus Daly made forty fortyCash Cash Days bad leg has not improved in Cali ¬ fornia and he is hardly likely to race again againJohn John Huffman has signed Jockey Tubervillo to ride his horses during the season of 1897 1897Free Free Advice was a late entry to the Brooklyn Handicap which drew 31 nominations nominationsWalter Walter Hayden are equipping a race track at Hot Springs for a meetiog early in the year yearYemen Yemen and Liburtine are to run five furlongs for 500 a side with 500 added next week at Ingleside InglesideD D OConnoll Chicago Crescendo is now a 4 yearold Ed Corrlgan bought Moylan from Byron McClelland McClellandOld Old Fellowcraft a good race horse but less than a good sire died at Dixiana Ky a few days ago He was 26 years old oldThe The California news says that Libertine is to bo retired and used as a sire The first mares to his embrace will be Lilly Wright the dam of Diggs Geraldine and Fusillades Last the dam of Fly FlyThe The Missouri breeders of all grades have asked for regulating legislation and a ninetyday bill and condemned pool rooms and winter and night racing They also declare for a state commission to regulate racing racingThe The stories about Col Lewis M Clarks seri ¬ ous illness in the dailies are as usual out of line The Colonel has been down with an at ¬ tack of rheumatism But he is out and about and was seen walking on Michigan avenue two mornings ago agoOakley Oakley has decided it is said to send C F McLean to Paris to watch the operation of tho mutuel system and report as to its application to the needs of the Cincinnati Jockey Club Tho latest mutuel machines are quoted at 1200 with 35 per cent duty That means 1620 per machine or at least 162uO for an outfit Ten machines would be a meager outfit too At least twenty would be needed for Oakleys bet ¬ ting Their cost would be J32460 or with ship ¬ ping costs 31000 It is hardly probable that any Western track will adopt the mutuel sys ¬ tem for the season of 1897 The talk about such change was specious and unintelligent Tho Tennessee Derby will be run on the clos ¬ ing day of the Memphis meeting this year Tho Montgomery will be run on tho first day dayThe The Californian horse Vinctor has not weathered an attack of catarrhal fever any too well and his wind may be affected affectedTho Tho Santa Anita stable has no jockey for 1897 as yet Tod Sloan declined to serve Mr Bald ¬ win again He seeks H Martin a good boy boyMr Mr August Bolmont sets a good example to turfmen by declaring to raco under his own name and not that of the Blomton Stable in future
