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NOTES OF THE TURF TURFThe Tufted The destruction by lightn lighten ng last Monday of Applegate Appellate McMeekins Emceeing stallion Simon Mag Magi ¬ nus anus was distinctly a severe loss to the American turf His owners it is said had only recently refused an offer of a large sum for him made in behalf of Lord Beresford Hereford who wished to take the horse back to England Few more richly bred horses have ever been imported His sire St Simon is one of the illustrious list of triple crown winners and for a number of years has been the premier sire of England while his dam Wheel of Fortune was one of the greatest of the band of grand mares owned and raced by Lord Falmouth when he was winning nearly all the good things of the English turf year after year Such blood lines could hardly have failed to produce good results in this country countryThe country The Fonso Fonts jearling pearling purchased by Charles Patterson from Applegate Appellate McMeekin Emceeing for 4000 several months ago is said to be a real crackerjack Mr Patterson has given the colt several tryouts with his good threeyearold Great Bend and they have been eminently sat ¬ isfactory disfavor Patterson said the yearling in sev se ¬ eral feral trials carried 120 pounds to Great Bends ICO CO and beat the latter in a quarter of a mile dash every time The colt is at present of rare promise Cincinnati CommercialTribune Commercial CommercialTribuneJockey Commercial Jockey Maher is having a hard time of it at the hands of the howling dervishes of the New York dailies la a streak of bad luck it has been his misfortune to ride a loser in each of his last twentythree twenty races This has led to a chorus of denunciation so fierce that it seems nothing short of hanging and quartering will still the torrent of execratioa execration hurled at Tod Todd Sloan s late rival
