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NOTES OF THE TURF With all his present and all his past Bill Mc Ciuigan answers John Carters legal move against him with a whimsical card from Little Bock Ark which runs as follows They have got my scalp and gone with it That has oc ¬ curred so often that I never any more fear the healing process If tho mountain offends His Honor I shall have it removed The difference is great indeed whether my ox gores his bull or his bull gores my ox Only late last autumn his un ¬ just rulings caused me to ship from pillar to post Eaten bread is soon forgotten As you make your bed so must you lie down on it The pot has evidently called tho kettle black and vice versa As soon as the smoke of battle clears away another gun or cannon is in order Lay on Macduff etc etcTho Tho legislative crank is at work in California Assemblyman Emmons has introduced a bill prohibiting horse racing on tracks between De ¬ cember 1 and March lalso prohibiting more than thirty days racing at one time in other months The normally sensible Breeder and Sportsman considers that the bill was conceived in idiocy and will drift to lunacy and dissolution It has a native inception inceptionTheres Theres a book according to Louisville necro ¬ mancy via the dailies on the Kentucky Futur ¬ ity with Ornament Dr Catlott and Typhoon II favorites at 6 to 1 each The Louisville Futur ¬ ity promises well But it isnt an event for a winter book by any means meansOld Old Congress onco a racehorse of good class was killed while running away with a road cart a few days ago Tho Dwyers gave a long price for Congress as a 2yearold He was ten years old and a brown gelding by Kyrlo Daly Eliza by Norfolk NorfolkTom Tom Flynn who was speaker of the Now Jer ¬ sey legislature and starter at Gloucester is now starting at Iron Hill He was deposed from the Jockey Club tracks last summer and suc ¬ ceeded by Pettingill Louis Ezell is a buyer of good judgment His good youngster The Cheat cost him 50 at Gene Leighs St Louis sale last summer summerTho Tho outlook for a New Jersey law that will permit limited racing in 1897 is excellent excellentA A Porkinson once a fair rider died of con ¬ sumption at New Orleans last Monday
