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NOTES OF THE TURF. This weeks Racing Calendar announces stakes for the Washington Jockey Club. This disposes of the report that there would be no racing at the Bennings track next spring The usual list of stakes for the spring meeting at Morris Park is also announced in the same issue. The Metropolitan Handicap has ,000 added this year. It was ,000 last year. The increase will be appreciated by turfmen. Morris Park will offer a program of unusual liberality this year. Report from New Orleans is to the effect chat the little light-weight rider, Odom, has been engaged to ride for ex-Corporation Counsel W. H. Clark of New York. Maher will of course do the main riding for the stable but he has been rapidly gaining weight of late so the little fellow will come in handy for the featherweight riding. Last years good performer, Goodrich, has been fired and turned out at Lexington. It is to be hoped this rarely good stayer will stand . training in good shape in time to show the benighted easterners who think Ben Holladay the only good longdistance horse left on earth the breadth and depth of their mistaken notions.
