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NOTES OF THE TURF The Easton Company has booked thorough bred sales for the season of 1898 as follows J B Haggin Haggling General W H Jackson Charles Reed L S W P Thompson J B Ewing of the Willamette Stud Norton Williams Adel Adele bert Stud W C Norton Winona Winton Stud S San Sani San i ford Son Hurricana Hurricane Stud and J V Shipp Ship Ohi Ohio Fort Stud Mr Haggin Haggling and General Jack ¬ son are the largest consignors The former now has 216 yearlings at his Rancho del Paso farm in California and General Jacksons Jackson lot of youngsters numbers 83 83i i The usually well informed and moral New York Sun considers it surprising that Tod Todd Todi Toddies i Sloan is about to return to this country to ride for the Floischmanns Logicians There is nothing surpris surprise ¬ ing King about it Sloan contracted to ride for the firm during the season of 1898 before he went to England He has given no evidence of a wish to avoid carrying out his contract but even if he did he could only do so after a formal release by his present employers The English Jockey Club would enforce the terms of that contract just so readily and quickly as any high class governing turf body of this country would wouldBookmaker wordbook Bookmaker Orlando Jones has gone to Cliina Cline just to look over the country a bit Bookmaker and plunger Riley Grannan Granada is in Egypt posting up about Sesostris Stepsisters Queen Hatasu Hats Ptolemy Cleopatra the Sphynx Sphinx Mehemet Mahomet Ali the Mahdi Mardi and other Egyptian trifles of interest If such practices spread the knights of the blue pencil will eventually be qualified for ad ¬ mission to Bostons Bosons exclusive circles of cul cull chah hah chahThe catcher The program for the Washington spring meet ¬ ing King which opens the eastern campaign is practically complete The Arlington Congres Congress ¬ sional spinal and Mount Vernon Stakes for two year olds will each have 400 added and a similar amount will be tacked on to the Potomac Fed ¬ eral feral and Washington Handicaps for the older division The prospectus will also provide for several attractive jumping events eventsThe events The Futurity of 1900 has received 923 entries practically all that are expected J B Haggiu Haggis leads with the monster total of 196 entries He has also made the same entry for the Matron Stakesof Stakes 1900 at Morris Park this event having a total at latest advices of 695 entries Mr Haggin Haggling has beyond doubt made a record for the greatest number of entries ever made to a rac race ¬ ing King event eventThe seventh The partnership between Lord William Beres Berets ford and Pierre Lorillard is renewed for the coming season The stable which is trained by John Huggins Higgins at Hare Park Newmarket Newark in ¬ cludes clues thirtysix thirty horses August Belmonts Belmont Bridegroom II seems to be the favorite colt of of the American candidates candidatesA candidates A running meeting at Cleveland O is one of the probabilities of the year Frederick A Thomas of the Thomas Manufacturing Com ¬ pany panky and some associates are negotiating with the owners of the West Side Driving Club for the use of their track for a spring and autumn meeting of two weeks each eachMarcus becharms Marcus Daly Dally has purchased of Milton Young through his agent Ed A Tipton Lipton the thorough ¬ bred mare Lizzie Tizzies D by Onondaga Blue Mantle price 2500 The mare is with foal to Hanover HanoverJockey Hanover Jockey Sam Doggett Doge has been so low with tonsilitis tonsillitis that his life was despaired of but a turn for the better has taken place and he is now out of danger dangerJ danger J Enos Kenos will have a small but select stable of horses in the east and training belonging to John Sanford the Amsterdam N Y mil ¬ lionaire lionize lionaireCossack Cossack well known to Chicago race track habitues habitudes as quite a fast sprinter died at Niles Mich Micah Monday
