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NOTES OF THE TURF Ed Corrigan the famous Chicago turfman Truman will race a big stable at the Oakley Ankle meeting Secretary Letcher Fletcher received a letter from Mr Corrigan which states that ho would bring a stable of seventeen horses to the Oakley Ankle track and asked that quarters for that number be re ¬ served In Mr Corrigans Corrigan string will be his great 4yearold Geyser that was the best horse on the coast the past season Cincinnati Com ¬ mercialTribune Mercator mercialTribuneAt At Morris Park Thursday Trainer Walden sent Bowling Brook and Mirthful a mile and a half in preparation for the Belmont Stakes The distance was done in 240i Up to the mile and a quarter Mirthful seemed quite as good as the Metropolitan Handicap winner but at the end Bowling Brooks class began to show and he won by a scant length It was pronounced a neat bit of work workMr wormer Mr Wyndham Lynda Walden says The Friar has filled out and furnished into a magnificent four yearold earl and is doing well at my farm in Mary ¬ land He will shortly be put in training and will probably be seen at the Saratoga meeting Buddha is doingSlow doings work but will hardly be able to start in the Brooklyn Handicap though he may be sent to the post later laterThe later The winners of 1000 or more at the Louisville meeting just closed were T H Blackburn Co 1079 J C Cahn Can 2850 P Dunne 2425 T P Hayes 1682 May Son 1233 J E Madden 9535 T C McDowell 2350 C F McLean CLean 1475 Stanton Tucker 2384 Schorr Scorer Sons 1050 John Welch 1475 George H Whitney 1225 1225Artisan Artisan ch c 2 by Spendthrift Gold Coil by The Miserthe Inserted property of J E Madden died recently at Morris Park from a cold contracted on the trip from Louisville He was considered an extra good colt and Mr Madden paid O H Chenault Health his breeder 2500 for him last fall fallJ fall J B Haggin Haggling is in negotiation with T B Mnir Mir for the purchase of a sixtyacre Sitar tract of blue grass land which is adjacent to his Elmen Bellmen dorf door stud farm The deal involves about 65 000 and will likely be consummated consummatedAfter consummated After running second to Chimura Chimera at Louis ¬ ville vile Thursday Tom GrifHns Griffins colt Jolly Roger was claimed by W Donohne Donjon for 925 Half an hour later J C Cahn Can offered 1300 for Jolly Roger but the offer was declined declinedSam declined Sam Hildreth Children has bought the good filly To luca Lucas from W M Murry Murray for the reported price of 2500 She is apparently well worth it She was bred by L J Rose and sold as a yearling for 150 150Joe Joe Hill heads the Louisville list of winning jockeys with 18 successful mounts The others who rode as many as five winners were Beau champ 12 Dupeo Dupe 9 Martin 8 Nutt Mutt 7 Bar ¬ rett Brett 5 5Schorr Schorr Scorer Son have declared out all their entries for the June meeting of the Coney Island Jockey Club and this takes Meadow thorpe Algol and Macy Marcy out of the Suburban SuburbanColonel Suburban Colonel Dan Burns says that both Altamax Alta and Mount McGregor Microgram will be fit to race next season The stable will ship twelve horses to Chicago this week
