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NOTES OF THE TURF. The veteran trainer, Dan Dennison, has arrived at Ingleside course with twelve horses, including Chappie, the three-year-old Gualala, and the Suburban Handicap winner Montana, by Ban Fox. Montana has been leased to a Fresno county breeder, and will be taken to that part of the state as soon as he is rested up. Most of the horses in Mr. Dennisons hands are two-year-olds bred at Marcus Dalys Bitter Boot Farm, but belonging to Miles Fin-len and Isaac Morehouse of Butte, Mont. Their trainer thinks there are several winners in the bunch, and as he is a very careful and conscientious horseman the Montana youngsters should be heard from shortly. San Francisco Examiner. At Rancho del Paso the dams of two celebrated racehorses will be destroyed this week. Explosion, the dam of Dew Drop, and Plaything, the dam of Tournament, have served their usefulness and are doomed to die. It is the custom of this famous ranch to destroy its senile stock. Rancho del Paso breeds on too extensive a scale to allow every horse to die from old age. The wired folly from New Orleans about jockeyism will cause the death of a boy or two before the meeting closes. It has already don e a lot of damage. The same folly puts John J. ONeill upon a steamer bound for Japan, when the facts fix him in San Francisco. Five carloads of horses left New Orleans Saturday to participate in the meeting at Tampa, Florida. It is said Mr. Plant or his agent made very easy terms by which they could get to Tampa, but none at all by which they are to get away. The stallion Isaac Murphy, by Virgil Mary Howard, has been sold to John Reed, of Hig-ginBville, Mo. It is said that the removal of the horse to Missouri will leave Hindoo the only son of Virgil doing stud service in Kentucky. Little Devin haB perforce joined the list of down for thirty-day boys at San Francisco, the judges at Oakland having suspended him for rough riding on Colonel Dan last week. Burns and Waterhouse weigh every horse in their stable on the first of the month. By studiously adhering to this system they can tell exactly how their runners are doing. W. O. Parmer and J. W. Busswurm of Nash-ville, Tenn., are about to take a trip to Havana with the rumored purpose of looking up a site for a racetrack. The Northern Circuit will be conducted on the same lines as last year with meetings at Highland Park, Fort Erie, Montreal and Windsor. "Pittsburg Phil" and trainer Chas. Hughes are the latest additions to the New Orleans talent.
