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NOTES OF THE TURF. Jockey Charley Thorpe, on his way to St. Louis to ride Yellow Tail in the Inaugural Handicap today, was a visitor at Lakeside yesterday. Thorpe has fully recovered from the bad fall he had at San Francisco and stated positively that this would be his last season in the saddle. He will ride at St. Louis until the Hawthorne meeting opens and then finish the reason and his career on the Chicago tracks. Maximo Gomez was ineligible for the first race at Morris Park yesterday. He was scratched after betting had been going on for ten minutes and after consultation between the stewards and George Wheelock, president of the Metropolitan Turf Association, all bets were declared off and new odds laid. This action was taken by the bookmakers and not by the stewards. Racing at Newport begins Monday. Many horses are now at the track and a big contingent will arrive from Louisville Sunday and Monday. An open betting ring is promised. Jacob Holt-man is to do the starting. Banastar was bought for and is now the property of Clarence A. Mackay, son of the California capitalist, and is intended to be the nucleus of a new and select racing stable. Charles T. Patterson is reported to have sold his much advertised Hanover— Workmate colt. Handwork, to J. W. Rogers for 5,000. M. P. — No place odds was laid against Topmast in the third race at Lakeside Tuesday.
