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s " £ f t t t ] j ] 1 , | . j • , i , | I NOTES OF THE TURF. 1 One of the most important sales of yearlings | scheduled for the coming summer will be con- • ducted by the Fasig-Tipton Co. at Madison Square Garden, New York, Jane 19, when some fifty or more yearlings, the property of Colonel Wm. S. Barnes, Mrs. Byron McClelland and other well known Kentucky breeders, will pass under the hammer. The sale will take place at I night under a brilliant display of electric light and will comprise the progeny of over twenty of the most fashionable sires of the day. The program of the French Jockey Club for 1899 has just been published and shows that 00,000 will be given in added money at the Long Champs, the Masons-Laffitte and Chan-tilly meetings and over 00,000 at the provincial meetings. The liberality which characterizes the French turf in this particular surpasses that of racing events anywhere else in Europe. — Tarf, Field and Farm The stewards of the California Jockey Club reopened the cases of Jockeys H. Shields and Lester Reiff last week and reinstated both boys to all tb9 privileges of the track. Reiff was suspended some time ago because he rode a waiting race with Joe Ullman. Shields was suspended from riding for any stable other than that of Galen Brown, who employed him. At a sale of horses in training at the Newport track Saturday J. H. Smith bought Yousande for 5. Mose Goldblatt bought Tenor for 0. James Hand bought Departure for 0. W. H. Laird bought Blazavia for 30 and Our Guess for 5. W. Clancy bought Cordrey for 5. "Tex" Foreman bought Done for 5 and Mr. Stede bought Hellebush for 5. A large shipment of horses will leave here for Chicago about the middle of this week, consisting of 6ome now racing at Newport and others quartered at Latonia. There will be about ten cars altogether and over 100 horses. The strings of W. M. Rogers, Rome Respass, J. R. Hand, W. A. McConnell and others will be in the lot.— Cincinnati Enquirer. Judge Joe Murphy of St. Louis and Secretary E. C. Hopper of Covington, have returned to their respective homes from San Francisco, where they have been serving as judges for the California Jockey Club. President Thomas H. Williams Jr. came east in their company for a season of rest and recreation. Th three-year-old brown colt Composer, by Wagner — Miss Banner, in the string of Bromley ■ and Co., recently died of pneumonia. Composer did not show well as a two-year-old in his public efforts but ho had improved and was px- pected to prove himself a useful three-year-old. Hon. W. C. Whitney has purchased from 1 Messrs. Atkins fc Lottridge their contract with j jockey Clawson. and he will be connected with the Whitney-PagPt stable. The contract is for f five years, but the price paid by Mr. Whitney is I not made public.
