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NOTES OF THE TURF. Eastern turf scribes have settled it that Jean Beraud, Ethelbert, Fly by Night, May Hempstead, Admiration and Filigraue constitute the exclusive first division of the 3-year-olds of the year. It seems from afar off that there is an overlook in this. A colt from Canada was rude enough to drop down east last year aud appropriate The Futurity and a few other trifles worth picking up. He is never mentioned by tbe aforesaid scribes but Martimas will ba apt to jar their feelings again presently, judging from his running in the Fort Erie Derby. It seems that May Hempstead and Admiration are after all to battle for supremacy in the three-year-old filly class. A race at a mile for ,000 each with ,000 added by the Coney Island Jockey Club has been arranged to take place at Sbeepshead Bay, Saturday. The grand fillies are to carry 107 pounds each. A dry track is stipulated for. Their meeting will exite great interest and attract a huge crowd to witness it. John W. Schorr shipped twelve horses to John Huffmans farm at Greenville, III., yesterday. In the lot are Algol, Timemaker and ten yearlings. Mr. Schorrs trainer, George Wakar, decided that a let-up would work wonders with Algol aud he will allow the big horsa to prance around Huffmans farm until the fall —St. Louis Republic. John Madden has bought the two-year-old cdt. McMeekin. from Charles T. Patterson for ,500, and will give him a rest, being under the impression that be has been given tf o severe ;i campaign,
