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NOTES OF THE TURF. The racing stewards of the Fair Association held a meeting Thursday and reinstated jockey George Holden, who was suspended for an unsatisfactory ride on Senator OBriens colt, : Duke of Baden, last Saturday. Holden produced evidence of the fact, that he had bat 0! of his own money on the colt. Holden is the jockey that rode for Jim Arthur during the early part of the meeting. He was set dewn at Chicago by Starter Dwyer andthea came to St. Louis to ride for Sanator OBrien. He will ! probably ride free lance at the Far Grounds j during the rest of the meeting. St. Lonis Re-public. Senator J. S. OBrien and jeekey Vitatoes j father had a conference at St. Louis Thursday nigbt, at the conclusion of which it was announced that the lad would ride for the Minne-sota turfman the rest of the season. Vitatoe ran away from his father aft9r he had given the boy a whipping for a bad ride on Branch at Hawthorne laBt Saturday. With good handling Vitatoe may develop into a good rider. Senator OBrien has a lot of good horses in his string and tbese are the kind that good jockeys are developed on. It is reported that James R. Keene has already or is about to purchase the Brookdale training establishment in New Jersey, now owned by the Colonel W. P. Thompson estate, and once the breeding establishment of the late D. D. Withers. The report probably arose from the fact that Mr. Keene has engaged Fred Mossum, long attached to Brookdale, to break the yearlings of Mr. Keenes CaBtletons stud in Kentucky. Mossum has taken them to the Brookdale establishment for that purpose. The unbeaten Sadducee has been entered in a number of the autumn stakes, in which he will meet the reputed best of the year and have an opportunity to demonstrate whether he is the equal or superior ol Mesmerist, Maribert, David Garrick, His Royal Highness and the other swells of the stake-winning division. Abe Calms famous old race mare Linda, by Linden, has been finally retired from the turf after a long and useful racing career. She is in foal to Doctor Hasbrouck. Mr. Cahn ha3 a number of brood mares at Joseph D. Lucas Goodwood stud, where Linda will spend the rest of her days. Sloan, it is announced, will sail. for the .United States by tho steamer New York today, having decided to take advantage of his suspension to viBit America. He will return to England for the autumn handicaps.
