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NOTES OF THE TURF The story in the daily newspapers about Ed Corrigan ploughing up the Ingleside track so that Good Times recently bought from Gene Leigh by Pat Dunne could win last Saturdays California Derby is as bad a libel as reputable journals ever published The race at 1J4 miles run on a fair track in 211 by threeyearolds at such a season with their weight up gives the first lie to the story Then again the general reputation of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club of ¬ ficials is directly against it The fellow who flooded the country with the story should be ruled off offWindsor Windsor is in danger Sir Oliver Mowat Min ¬ ister of Justice of Ontario has introduced in the Ontario House a bill to amend the criminal code of the province It provides that there can bo no legal speculation at a race meeting of longer than twelve days duration or twenty days for one track within one year The meas ¬ ure may be modified to a term of thirty days per track per year Bat it is almost sure to pass passCollins Collins in the St Louis Eepublic says Nearly all the turfmen on the Southern Circuit think Laureate was thrown into the ot Louis Inaug ¬ ural with a pitchfork They say nothing will ever catch him with 105 pounds In the Mont ¬ gomery Handicap at a mile and a sixteenth to be run the first day of the Memphis meeting Laureate is asked to pack 118 pounds poundsFrom From New York comes the information that the Jockey Club and Turf Congress is likely to make an alliance this spring Now York infor ¬ mation over general and broad turf doings is so generally bad that even such welcome informa ¬ tion must be doubted doubtedMr Mr August Belmont now in the east is quot ¬ ed as saying that a Jockey ClubTurf Congress alliance is an early possibility He sees no rough spots in the path of an agreement It is sincerely to be hoped that his view of the situa ¬ tion is correct correctTyphoon Typhoon II who is entered in both the Mem ¬ phis and Louisville Derbies worked the Mem ¬ phis track last Tuesday morning with weight up a mile in 144 finishing with a lot loft The fractional time was 13 25 37tf 50 1 17 l302 144M 144MGood Good critics class Boanerges defeat of Bur ¬ lesque in the Little Eock Derby as light in a form way The track was against the Patter ¬ son colt and he was badly managed and pulled up at the end endHowland Howland the Madden colt which won so im ¬ pressively at Little Rock is said to have worked a quarter mile with his weight up in 22 sec ¬ onds and a half mile in 4SJ seconds The last quarter is out of line on a speed basis if the story is true trueMr Mr August Belmonts temperate wisdom is likely to be used to straighten out the Jockey Club Bruce tangle over the stud book Such action is necessary necessaryThe The news from Louisville says that Middleton Jungbluth have engaged Lonnio Clayton to ride their crack filly Eugene Wickes in the Ken ¬ tucky Oaks OaksSure Sure enough W J Speirs has Major Domo in training at Oakley
