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NOTE8 OF THE TURF. J, W. Schorr and Son have purchased Streamer of J. M. Murphy, the St. Louis horseman, for a reported consideration of ,500. Streamer is the three-year-old bay colt by Top Gallant-Kitty Gunn. He was the favorite for the St. Louis Derby and finished back in the ruck. It is now understood that Schorr and Son have reconsidered their intention of shipping their stable to Saratoga. Handball and Cleophus have arrived in Lexington and will bj known to the track no more. Handball has been purchased by Milton Young and will bs used as a stallion at McGrathiana. Cleophus is to become a broodmare. Up to June 5 The Sailor Prince stands third, and Sensation fourth in the list of winning sires in England. Orms heads the list. The Sailor Prince and Sensation are both owned by P, Lorillard, Rancocas Stud, New Jersey. The officials at the Fort Erie meeting are L. P. Tarlton, C. H. Pettingill and Francis Neb son, judges; Mars Cassidy, starter; John Morrow, patrol and paddock judge. Nearly 700 horses are at the track. The New York Herald states that Jockey Odom has signed to ride for W. C. Whitney for three years at 0 000 a year, beginning in 1900. He will ride for "Tom" Magte at New Orleans next winter. Jockey H. Martin is reported to have made an engagement to ride for R. Waldo Griffith in England. The Grfiith Stable is a large one for which Tod Sloan has ridden a number of winners, Bruce Sealon, who recently purchased a lot of yearlings in Kentucky for the English turf, died not long since from pneumonia and diphtheria. He was only twenty seve a years old. I Mr. M F. Dwyers colt Kingdou rau into the fence iu the race won by Admiration Moaday j and was so seriously injured he will probably â– ever bj able to start again.
