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NOTES OF THE TURF There are the usual spring not personal wails about betting losses from California Biley Grannan is said to be 50000 loser Pitts burg Phil 35000 Ed Purser who should have beeu a big winner 20000 and Dave Gideon 15 000 All the wails are Eastern wails wailsThe The gray gelding Pittsburgh by Springbok Jennie V by Waverly is now being used as a buggy horse by Theodore Cook to whom he was presented by B Payne Mr Cook triad to edu ¬ cate the horse for a jumper but finding him a failure put him to harness harnessTodd Todd and Cass Sloan were in Chicago Satur ¬ day and Sunday Todd is on his way East to ride for Pittsburg Phil Cass goes to New ¬ port to ride for Mr Leigh who is at La Belle BelleThe The St Louis opening date is Saturday May 15 not next Thursday as announced through an error made in the notice sent DAILY RACING FOKH by the Fair Grounds Association AssociationB B J Johnston is here from Hot Springs and in fairly good health Big Jim Gushing in scandalous fettle is a present member of the Indiana colony colonyIt It is related of a modern English coroner that he postponed an inquest to accomodate a juror who had an engagement to see the Lincolnshire Handicap run runAccording According to newspaper fables Chicago will have at least thirty race tiacks this season But fables are fables and race tracks costly pos F H Hickok a keen horseman who brought Magnet west has signed C Murphy an oxout law jockey Hickok also produced Jockey Wil hite hiteThe The St Louis Fair Grounds Association has chosen as its racing stewards for 1897 Bolla Wells J C Ghio Robert Aull and C C Maffit MaffitEl El Toro has gone lame in his work at Lexing ¬ ton and will hardly cut a figure in early races
