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NOTES OF THK TURF. The following dates have been set for the two- year-old stakes of the California Jockey Club : Saturday, March 4, ,000, the Racing Stakes, 1-2 mile; Monday, March 20, ,00, the Flying Stakes fillies, 1-2 mile; Thursday, March 23, ,250, the Watorhoust Stakes, four and a half furlongs ; Thursday, March 30, ,250,the General Arthur Cigar Stakes, four and a half furlongs; Thursday, April 20, ?2,O0Q, the Gebhard Stakes, Futurity Course ; Monday, April 24, ,00, the Candelaria Handicap, 5-8 mils. At Forsythe, Ind., June 6, 1896, Redskin, with only fifty-eight pounds up, stepped off a mile and a sixteenth in 1:45, thereby wiping out the previous best record at the distance, 1 :45t, made by Yo Tambien at Washington Park. Yesterday Topmast ran in Redskins time over the fast Oakland track. As he carried just fifty pounds more than Redskin did, it must be conceded that all the honors of the record belong to Topmast. T. H. Ryan will sell off all the horses he has racing here, including Dunois, Dont Skip Me, Wing and Montallade. The sale will take place at the close of Oaklands next spell of racing. Ryan has twenty-five two and three-year-olds on a ranch at Wilmington, 111., and he considers he will have his hands full with them. San Francisco Examiner. While being galloped at Memphis in preparation for the St. Patricks Day Handicap at New Orleans. Fervor was bo badly cut above the hock by a piece of ice that six stitches were necessary to close the wound. Ho has done well since however and the injury is not expected to retard his training to any serious extent. E. C. Cowden, Mount Kisco, N. Y., has sold to John E. Madden the following thoroughbred yearlings: Chestnut colt, by Eothan Longshore; bay colt, by Badge Semper Paratus, and brown colt, by Hanover Spinnette. The pries was private. Jockey Spencer was set down for tea days at Ingleside last Thursday far fouling Midlight, but was allowed to ride out his engagements already made for Friday and Saturday. The good racemara Wont Dance ia dead. This is a serious loss to Ed Corrigan, as the nta re showed excellent form last season, finishing close up in the Burns Handicap. Enquirer, Detroit, Mich. Daily Racing Form has no judicial powers on racetracks. Enquire of St. Louis Fair Grounds Association or write in your own name. Wheel of Fortune is now the property of BT. L. Jones it Co., by virtue of having been claimed out of the selling race in which she ran second to Mistral II. last week. The roof of the Monmouth Park grandstand split in the middle and the whole western half was blown off while the recent great Btorm was raging. St. Cloud II. and Uriel, the property of James R. Keene, have both been fired since their re-tarn from England. W. J. Arkell and Co. have signed jockey Foncon to ride during the season of 1899.
