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J , , NOTES OF THE TURF. The St. Loui3 meeting will come to a close Saturday, Aug, 26. No racing will take place Aug. 15. The vacant date is for the purpose of bringing the meeting to a termination on a Saturday. Three stake races remain for decision. The Ozark Handicap, for two yeir-oldB, will be run off Aug. 12. It is at six furlongs. The Autumn Selling Stakes, at seven furlongs, for all ages, will ba decided Aug. 19. The remaining stake, the Chrysanthemum Handicap, at a mile, for two-year-olds, will ba the main feature of the closing day of the meeting. The attention of turfmen at the local tracks is called to tbe advertisement of the Carroll County Agricultural Society which appears in the advertising department of this issue of Daily Hacinq Foem. The county fair it to be held at Mt. Carroll, August 29, 30, 31, and September 1, with ,000 set aside for the thoroughbreds. This is a very neat sum to be picked up in the course of four days and will be worth the attention of owners who cannot find races here at that time with conditions to suit their horses. The Saratoga Stewards will not permit R.Williams or OConnor to ride there until after, the close of tbe meeting at Brighton Be ach, where both jockeys have been suspended for the meeting. This is as it should be. A jockey suspended here can go to St. Louis and ride during his suspension and vice versa. This is as it should not be. Want of condition is responsible in many case for the so-called quitting propensity. The bests horse in the world cannot race gamely and successfully unlesB properly conditioned. A man who is a good conditioner and who knows when hid horses are fit to race is one of the most val uablo acquisitions that a racing stable can have The jostling and crowding seen in nearly all our races has more to do with in-and-out performances than wany other cause. One day a horse is bumped a dozen times, and pocketed as often, finishing nowhere. The next he has clear sailing and wins like a wild horse. Result, dissatisfaction and scandal unending. Bad actors are being disciplined at Brighton Beach, and the list of those debarred from entering until properly schooled at the starting barrier now includes Timely, Maurice, Marshall, Twinkler. The Burlington Route and Tinge. Can any official of our racetracks tell offhand what horses always wear blinkers, which run their best races without spur or without whip? Do they always know when a change is made? If not, why not? It is their business to know. The Horse Fancier. The Horse Fancier, a weekly turf publication, well edited by Mr. F. M. Ware of tho American Horse Exchange, New York, haB transferred its subscription list to The Spirit of The Times and gone out of existences. Charles Post, who was at one time among the noted steeplechase riders of the country, died Wednesday morning of Brigbts disease.
