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NOTES OF THE TURF. A Lexington, Ky. dispatch of Thursday, says: "The racing stable of W. Showalter has been transferred to the hands of E. L. Graves, a well-known young trainer, and will tomorrow ba shipped to the Gravesend track, Brooklyn. Graves has seven of his own and these with the Showalter string will make a large stable. Box, it is expected, will be a good horse this season. He has recovered from his injury. Henry Mc-Daniels. who has been training the Showalter horses, will race in the west, making the transfer necessary." Fred Morsom, who is in charge of Marcus Dalys string, is an Englishman, and had quite some experience before coming to America. He was for years in the employ of James Galway, and afterwards had charge of the Brookdale Stud, leaving there after the dispersal sale and entering Mr. Dalys employ out in Montana. Morsom is a man of more than ordinary intelligence and a first-class trainer. The Horse Fancier. H. Martin is to report to Gideon and Daly tha latter part of this month. He will go to Holm-del Farm to familiarize himself with the peculiarities of the young relatives of Jean Beraud, so as to be on good terms with them before the opening of the racing season. "Skeets" will ba sadly missed on the Frisco tracks. The bay two-year-old, Dr. S. C. Ayres, by Ke-hama Annie Irwin, by Iroquois, has beea added to the string of Grater Bros, at the Lexington track. This is a nicely balanced colt and is likely to make a useful two-year-old, as he worked a quarter in twenty-four seconds last fall with 120 pounds up. Jimmy McLaughlin has a string of about ten ready for Washington. W. C. Daly will also take about half of his big string to Bennings. His lot now at New Orleans will ba shipped to Washington March 20. The horses running in the name of T. Magee and F. Reagan will bo sent along at the same time. Miller and Blazer were decidedly unlucky with their fast eprinter San Mateo in the last race at Ingleside Thursday. A heavily backed favorite he was left at the post in a bad start and then claimed for 50 by G. W. Scott, who had Lady Britannic in the race. Dr. Catlett, who has baen added to the geld-ing list, looks better than he ever did. The high class Whiplash also looks very well. Tha half-brother to Whiplash, which was a very un gainly looking yearling, has sharpened up and improved wonderfully. Superintendent William Puckett, who hat been connected with the Saratoga racetrack since the days of John Morrissey, has been stricken with paralysis. Puckett is well known to American aid Canadian turfmen. One of the mo3t promising fillies at Louisville is the brown two-year-old Kata Hickan, by Hermence Vulpine, by Virgil.
