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NOTES OF THE TURF Secretary Edwin F Smith of the California State Agricultural Society announces that the California Futurity to be run at the State Fair meeting at Sacramento in 1898 is worth 3860 to date and that tho thou two payments still to be made will bring the value up to 5000 This stake is becoming more valuable every year and the at ¬ tention tenting of breeders is called to the fact that entries for tho thou California Futurity of 1900 close on January 1 1898 1898In In addition to Mr Pettingill Petting C J Fitzger Fitzgerald ¬ ald auld the competent New Orleans starter and present Clerk of the Scales of tho thou Jockey Club and W J Fitzpatrick and E Garrison the ex jockeys are being considered in connection with the Jockey Clubs post of starter If Mr Pettingill Petting is supplanted Mr Fitzgerald will bo his successor successorSan successors San Francisco all things considered sustains racing Hotter than any other city in America In general volume the operation of turf sport there is amazing The present season is better than those of the past and tho thou racing as good looking in form figures as the best this country has ever seen seenBeginning Beginning January 1 the clerk of the scales at Ingleside Ingles will collect the money for tho thou mounts before tho thou jockeys are weighed out This is as it should be upon every American racetrack racetrackThe racetrack The socalled scaled outlaw tracks in tho thou Maryland Virginia corner have agreed about the matter of dates and there will be no future clash Barks dale will follow Iron Hill and run during Janu Janus ¬ ary Cary aryHi Barry Hi Ki Club Cincinnati O Prince Leif ran sixteen races as a twoyearold toehold both West and East Of them he won nine was second in three third in one and unplaced in three threeTimemaker Timemaker Tidemark sent by J W Schorr Scorer Son to make a winter campaign at New Orleans went lame soon after his arrival and was returned to Memphis accompanied by Presbyterian PresbyterianAsgistant Presbyterians Asgistant Assistant Secretary Bronner Brenner announces that the stewards of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club have sustained tho thou ruling of the judges in tho thou matter of the mare Trance TranceAccording According to Eastern report Dave Gideon is to make a short and conservative winter cam ¬ paign pain in California with Mike Daly Dally as his trainer trainerThere trainer There are good reports about the condition of that noble filly Recroatipn Recreation from California She is doing well and beirig bemiring made ready for rac race St Callatine Palatine has developed quite a temper and was very flighty at the post in her last race raceOdds raced Odds On the fast colt in the Burns Water house stable is branded as unsound unsoundThe unsound The Oneck Neck Stable is drawing in its turf horns and has released Jockey Sam Doggott Doggo