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1 1 i i , NOTES OF THE TURF. Albert 8imon8 has bought the noted old campaigner Simon W. He has been very much under the weather as a racehorse for some time past, but Simons thinks that through careful attention he will be able to nurse him back to something like his form of 1897, when he was one of the best horses in the west. Carnegie, with its outlaw racing, is having a lot of trouble. The officials are in the courts, the jockeyB are on strike and its poolroom game is out of line with the avenues of transmission. In consequence "racing has been indefinitely postponed on account of bad weather." Harry Hill, the Australian plunger, has left California for New York. Hill said before leaving: "I have taken a mortgage on Mr. Fosters horses, Sam McKeover and Yellow Tail, for the balance that he owes me, the same is to be paid inside of sixty days." The Jockey Club has approved the following list of officials for the Saratoga meeting. Presiding Judge, Joseph J. Burke; Starter, Matt. Byrnes; Clerk of the Scales, Charles F. Ruh, Jr. ; Handicapper, W. S. Yosburg. W. C. Whitney has bought the broodmare, Mountain Range, by Longfellow Sierra Nevada, from A. C. Franklin, Jr., for ,000. Spirituelle has an enlarged hock that has been giving the trainer some trouble. She may not be got to the post early.
