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1 ■ I 1 ! 1 • 1 I t t , j , . ? i b S NOTES OF THE TURF. Maximo Gomez and Trumpet, sons of Victory and Quesal, and therefore full brothers, both won on the same day at Aqueduct Saturday, April 28 and on the succeeding Saturday their two-year-old half brother, Tommy Atkins, won the Juvenile Stakes at Morris Park in the fastest time ever recorded for the event, from all of which it appears that Quesal is an extremely valuable broodmare. Decapod, who ran in the colors of Messrs. J, W. Colt and F. H. M. Birckhead at one time, and whose career on the turf was more or less checkered, is now the property of an army officer at Havana. Apparently he has lost none of his former skill as a jumper, as he recently won a high-jumping contest at some impromptu sports held under the direction of General Wood. Luther H. Titus, prominent as a turfman and stock breeder, is dead at his home near Pasa: dena, Cal. He was seventy-seven years of age. He raised Direct, the crack pacing stallion and sold him when a colt to Monroe Salisbury. Each year Mr. Titus used to take a string of horses to Saratoga. There were foaled at McGrathiana last week brothers to the rivals for western two-year-old supremacy in 1897— a chestnut colt, brother to Maclvor, by Pirate of Penzance— Harebell, by Stratford, and another of the same color, brother to Malvolio, by Fonso— Flyaway, by George Kinney. L. McConnell. Chicago.— Coupled, it was 8 to 5 place, 3 to 5 show against the Scoggan entry. Separately, it was 24 to 1 place, evens show against Florizar and 2 to 1 place and evens show against Highland Lad. The two colts were laid against on both plans at the track. The Chicago Jockey Club has reinstated jockey Dugan who was ruled off last year by-Captain Rees. His case was referred back to the club by the Committee on Appeals of the American Turf Congress and because of new evidence was decided favorably to him. The California Jockey Club has reinstated jockeys Coburn and Ruiz and owner Frank ORourke heretofore under suspension and ruled off jockey W. Martin permanently for asking a jockey, whose name has not been made public, to pull a horses. Of a peculiarity of Black Fox, Mr. A. Feath- erstones colt that won a half mile dash at Mor- ris Paek Saturday in 47 seconds, one of tbe New York papers said : "This colt has remarkably high action, his effort at the finish resembling closely that of a hackney. James R. Keene has sailed for England. His colt Disguise II.. by Domino, has worked well for the English Derby, and the great Wall street plunger hopes to capture the blue ribbon event of the English Turf with the son of the dead black whirlwind. The jumper Phillidore that fell in the steeple-j chase at Morris Park Saturday was so severely injured that he will probably have to be destroyed. George Cochran, whose mount Plagi-arist also fell in the same race, had his collar bone broken. It is reported that J. P. Robison, owner of King Barleycorn and Blueaway, will retire from the turf shortly. Mr. Robisons interests in Wall street demand all his attention just now, and he is compelled to dispose of his horses. Ed Corrigans mare Sardonyx has foaled a full brother to Sardine, which is the first colt this successful matron has given to the turf. She has foaled a number of winners, but they have all been of the gentle sex up to this time. "Pittsburg Phil" is reported to have won 5,000 on Ethelberts victory in the Metropolitan Handicap.
