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NOTES OF THE TURF. Though not so much fuss is being made about it, H. Martin is apparently riding with as much skill and success at San Francisco as Tod Sloan did last winter. Ho has nearly swept the card several times and has a remarkably high percentage of winning mounts. Tuesday, with five mounts, he was four times first and once second. If Gideon and Dalys youngsters are as good this year as they were last, "Skeets" will bo likely to make a stronger impression this year on the New Yorkers than he has done heretofore. Mr. Henry L. Frank, whose horses are wintering at Oakley, in charge of Trainer William Letcher, arrived in Cincinnati Monday. Mr. Frank will remain there a fow days to look over his flyers, which have been doing very nicely at the Cincinnati track. The Frank horses are entered in the different stakes at Latonia, aud will probably open the season at that track. Several two-year-olds will be added to the stable before the racing season opens. Iroquois Belle is the name selected for Messrs. Bromley and Cos b. f , 2, by Iroquois Yorkville Belle, and Indian Fairy for the ch. f, 2, by Iroquois Fairy. If their deeds match their lineage these feminine equine aristocrats will fill exalted places in the regard of turf followers long before next winters snow flies. A., Chicago, 111. Libertine raced in the east for a short time in 1894. At Coney Island, July 2,1894, Libertine 103, won over the Futurity Course from Kingston 120, Annie Bishop 93 and a big field, in 1:11. Jockey Patsey Freeman will leave San Francisco for Memphis soon in hope of striking better fortune than has attended him on the coast. Mounts have been few and far between for the old timer this winter. J. W, Forsyth has sold to H. Eugene Leigh the brown filly Tildee, 2, by Kingston Stapella, by Hindoo. This filly is said to have worked a quarter in 23 seconds, and i very promising. Lord William Beresford has taken a Mr Agnes into equal partnership with him in all the horses now trained at Heath House by Huggins. They number thirty-seven. More or less reliable reports from Kentucky say that First Mate, a horse of supreme speed in the Bromley and Co. lot, is a hopeless cripple and will not race again. John Bobbins the "Bone Doctor", who formerly trained for Barney Schreiber, is to train a string for the millionaire St. Louis brewer Lemp this year. Bannockburn and Salvable, in Fat Dunnes string, have been fired and both are likely to stand. Salvable was most benefited by the operation. Enquirer, Chicago, 111. The records do not show that Desperation, imported by L. N. Schoenfeld in 1893, has ever started in an American race. Louis Ezells once good horse Kamsin is wind-broken and has recently had a silver tube put in his throat by veterinarian Masoero. Rosebeaus saddle slipped in her last race, the accident preventing her from making a better showing. W. C. Daly has sold the bay mare Her Own, 5, by Galore Queens Own, to J. N. Enright.
