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NOTES OF THE TURF. Reports from Hot Springs show that Steve LHommedien, the plunger of the year, is picking winners with the same marvelous success that marked his doing while he was on the scene of action. The backer of one of the poolrooms writes to a friend that his contribution to the plungers pile is 0,000, and he says lhat the other angels have a similar tale to tell, He adds that unless there is. a turn in the tide in the near future some of the establishments will be looking for now bmk rolls or close their doors. St. Louis Republic. Tom Ryan has changed his miad in ragird to the winter campaign in New Orleans, and will ship his own horses, as well as those he trains for James Whitten and others, to hi3 farm in Illinois. He has been offered a big pries for St. Simonian, bat has declined it. Thompson Bros., owners of Sidnoy Lucas, have purchased of L. V. Ball the black calt Grandeur, 2, by Onondaga Elzarra. Terms private. The three-year-old gelding Hiloe, a good performer last summer on the Chicago tracki, was recently sold for ,600 to "Doc" Kinder of St. Louis. W. J. Roche purchased Bannovilla for ,000 yesterday before he started for the fourth race at New Orleans and secured a useful racehorse well worth the money paid.
