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WILL NOT MAKE MATCHES. "School for Scandal will probably be sent here to meet her stake engagements, as the meeting is about over at Latonia," said Col. W. S. Bame6 yesterday, "and she may meet Miss Bennett in some race. If I own any filly f that can beat Miss Bennett I think it is Fancy- wood. She did beat her once, you know, and in the stake race on Tuesday, wbere she met her the second time, Fancywood was standing still behind the line when the flag dropped and the rider did not think it would be a start. Fancy-wood got off last from a standing start, the field drew five or six lengths away from her in going the first quarter. Fancywood then stumbled and went down on her knees, and at about three-eighths of a mile from home she must have been at least fifteen lengths behind all hut one. She was so far out of the race that I took no further interest in her running, but looked at the contest between the leaders. Imagine my surprise to see her finish third. She must have run the last three-eighths very fast, and seemed to be going stronger than any of them at the finish. She is a good one, and I expect her, at three quarters of a mile, to give any filly in this country a sharp contest. "I noticed in the morning paper that I am about to make a match race with Mr. T. C. McDowell—the filly School for Scandal against his Prince of Monaco filly Monarka. It is true School for Scandal heat Monarka a nose on a muddy track, but 1 would not think of matching School for Scandal against her. for Mr. McDowell thinks her one of the best fillies he ever owned, and he has owned a score of good ones. 1 would not match if I knew 1 would win. I do not believe in match races. It makes bad friends. "I am here to arrange some matters connected with Messrs. Woodard fe Shanklins big sale of Kentucky and Tennessee yearlings to be held in this city on the 16th and 17th of July, and I have made a nice consignment af Melbourne yearlings to this sale. These gentlemen expected to get about .200 head to sell in the west, but I judje from what Mr. Shanklin says there will be less than a hundred head in all, and these will be the only yearlings sold in the west this year. Mr. Shanklin says they cannot be found, and if western racing men want yearlings to race next year as two-year-olds they will have to buy them in this sale."
