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NOTES OF THE TURF. B. J. Hutchinson is the latest horse owner who will take Mb stable to New Orleans in preference to San Francisco. Secretary Sheridan Clarke, before he left New York for the Crescent City on Thursday, secured the assurances of many prominent eastern turfmen. Colonel J. A. Strathy died recently at his home in Montreal. He waB until Wb health failed interested in steeplechasers, and owned some good jumpers. He imported George Frederick, the only English Derby winner ever brought to Canada. For the Paris Grand Prix of 1904, worth 0,-000, Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt has entered thirteen yearlings, most of which are out of the batch of mares sold to him by the late Pierre Loril-lard in 1895. Mr. Augnst Belmont has made three entries in the same race. The Jockey Wonderly, who has bsen riding in such good form both at Gravosend and Morris Park meetings this fall, was born in London, Ont., and first brought out by "Doc" Gray don, in whose colors ha won a number of good races. Mr. Seagram will winter quite a few of his youngsters in the neighborhood of New York, under the care of trainer McCable who used to work for the Dwyer Bros. Tom McDowell has turned out his crack two-year-old Alan-a-Dale until the spring. The son of Halma, bar accident, should make a more than useful three-year-old.
