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NOTES OF THE TURF. The following from a dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer from Chillicothe, O., is interesting if true: "Uncle Dan Harness has presented his peerless little mare Imp, to his daughter, Miss Virginia Harness, and that young lady will hereafter have the active management of the mare. Miss Harness is an enthusiastic admirer of fast horses, and has kept the records of all her fathers horses for several years past, being of no little assistance to him in this way. She has the records and breeding of all his horses at her tongues end, and is thoroughly informed on racing matters. She is a very attractive young lady, and a great favorite with the guests at her fathers hospitable home. Imps next season will be the most important she has yet made, and Miss Harness many friends hope it will be as successful as her past ones." Henry McDaniels, the well-known young Lexington trainer, will campaign a string on eastern tracks this season, and the lot will be headed by the speedy but erratic Box. There will also be four or five two-year-old in the lot that have showed up pretty well so far. The horses are the property of W. Showalter, for whom Mr. McDaniels has been training for the past year. Yesterday Charley Penn of this city received a letter from Mr. McDaniels, in which he said that Box had been fired and turned out, and that he had rounded to very nicely. He expects that Box will prove to be very formidable in the eastern handicap division this year. Cincinnati Commercial-Tribnne. Myth has been barred from starting at Ingleside. As he had previously been cut off from the privilege of running at Oakland it appears that no more of his "startling reversals" will be displayed at San Francisco. Cromwell set a new record for California yesterday when he defeated David Tenny at nine furlongs in l:52r. The record before was Salva-dos l:52tmade at Oakland, December 24, 1897. Jockey Jesse Everett has signed to ride for Charles T. Patterson during 1899 and will go east with the stable. Piggott will ride for Burns and Waterhouse at St. Louis this season. Thorpe goes with the eastern division. Jockey T. Powers has signed- a contract to ride for August Belmont. It is reported to be for three years. E. S. Gardner, Jr., has sold the filly Eight Bells to F. H. Hickok, of St, Louis,
