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NOTES OF THE TURF TURFPorter Purported Porter Ashes great horse Ruinart Ruminate winner of last years Burns Handicap and other valuable stakes is rapidly rounding to He had adickey dickey leg all summer and broke out in blotches or boils all over this fall but since they have disap diaper ¬ peared pearled he has gone sound all round and experi expert ¬ enced fenced trainers say that he will certainly stand training He showed the other morning that he still retained his speed by stepping six furlongs on the Oakland track in 1 15i with a big boy in the saddle The first half was negotiated in 49 seconds San Francisco Examiner ExaminerJ Examiner J I Cavanaugh of Sacramento bred Bane wor word the Stromboli Thrombosis filly that won on January 22 and for which Messrs Messes Burns Waterhouse Warehouse paid Tom Boyle 2500 contingent on her winning The mining magnates own several more by the slashing son of Chester and Aetna who should never have been allowed to go back to Australia It is whispered that a correspondence has al ¬ ready been opened up in connection with his return to this country San Francisco corres cores ¬ pondent pendent in Spirit of the Times TimesThe Trimester The bones of George Wilkes are to be artic aortic ¬ ulated pulsated and mounted in the new museum of the Kentucky State College On neighboring stands in the National Museum in Washington D Ci are to bo seen the skeletons of the mighty Lexington and old Henry Clay types of the runner and the trotter In the War Department Museum in the same city the stuffed and mounted skin of George M Patchen Patch is a life like and interesting relic of other days daysWhile dash While some mystery was made about the horses shipped to England by James R Keene last week it is probable the following is the correct list Ch f Nautch Snatch Girl by Popper and Salt Cerito Cheerio b f Blushing Boauty Beauty by Fitz Fritz simon Princess Caroline b f Maid of Erin by Amphion Lampion Mavourneen Averment ch c Easter Gift by Candlemas Candelas Ella T ch c Cock Robin by Tea Tray Casket and b or br f by Chorister Brown Beauty BeautyA Beauty A recent letter from New Zealand says that the get of Foul Shot are grand lookers and likely to win many good races during the com ¬ ing King season This will be cheering news to his present owner Barney Schreiber who has the stallion at his fine breeding farm Woodlands near St Louis Spirit of The Times TimesEuropean Timeserver European governments contribute consider ¬ able money toward the horse breeding interest Last year France appropriated 435755 Ger Gear ¬ many 961000 Austria 850000 and Hungary 165000 In addition to the above amount the French government contributed about 500000 for premiums at exhibitions exhibitionsIn exhibitions In the Continental books so states a cable from London under date of January 31 Voters price for the Lincolnshire Handicap is 16 to 1 while 12 to 1 is quoted about St Cloud if Mr Keenes Keeners entry is well liked and if sent to the post fit Voter should prove a contender at the finish finishMrs finishers Mrs Chris Smith wife of Chris Smith of Ken ¬ dall Udall Stable fame has been dangerously ill for the past three weeks at the Mercy Hospital An operation was necessary Mrs Smith is slowly getting better and is expected to be convalescent in a month monthJockey Montgomery Jockey James Lamloy Lamely has begun an action in the Supreme Court of New York County N Y against W C Daly Dally Lamley Langley alleges that when he left Dalys Days employ in 1893 he intrusted entrusted to the latter 1010 which he cannot collect collectBaker collectable Baker Gentry have had the misfortune to lose the bay filly sister to Rosinante Obstinate two years old by Charaxus Caraculs Ethie Ethel She fell in the stable fracturing her hip and had to be destroyed Kentucky Stock Farm FarmThe Farther The Bronston Brownstone bill limiting race tracks to two meetings per annum of no more than fifteen days each passed the Kentucky Senate Satur Saturn ¬ day without a dissenting vote voteRoy voter Roy Alfonso is not to bo shipped to Guate Gate ¬ mala Malay as erroneously reported He is at a ranch near Salinas where he will be kept in the stud San Francisco Examiner ExaminerWill Examiner Will McDaniels Macanese has engaged to train for Lan caster Co while his brother Henry will per form similar service for W Showalter Howler ShowalterVictorine Victorine Victorian the dam of Ornament now at El mendorf mender Stud is undoubtedly with foal to Order She is due to foal on March 29 29Ida Ida Pickwick Picklock is due to foal this month to Quicklime She will be bred to Himyar Shimmy Souffles dam will also be bred to the sire of Domino DominoJockey Dominance Jockey Simms Sims is in Louisville and report has it that his business there is to sign a contract to ride for John E Madden this year yearStarter Easterner Starter H D Brown has been engaged by the Queen City Jockey Club operating the Newport Ky track for the season of 1898 1898Barney Barney Schreiber has turned out Schiller Chiller Sir William Aquinas Sorrow and Don Cariilo Carillon at Antioch AntiochThe Antioch The Turf Exchange at Louisville is to open a future book on the Kentucky Derby DerbyThere Derbyshire There is an important letter at this office for Starter Dick Dwyer DwyerGalen Dwyer Galen Brown has purchased Cant Dance from Ed Corrigan
