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NOTES OF THE TURF. John Masterson, St. Louis, Mo. The rules of the WeBtern Jockey Club and of the American Turf CongreBB both contain this provision. "No contract shall be binding under these rules, the provisions of which give to an employer any interest whatever in the earnings of a jockey, and a license shall not be granted to a jockey bound by such contract. An employer or jockey misrepresenting tho terms of a contract may bo fined, suspended or ruled off." Bidney Paget, racing manager for Mr. W. C. Whitney, is at Lexington, Ky spending a few daysin the blue grasB country looking over the weanlings belonging to Mr. Whitney and selecting the best for Btake entries. He Bays his visit has not the remotest connection with the removal of Mr. Whitneys stud from LaBelle farm to Bancocas. The deal for the lease of Banco-cas, he says, is positively still in the stage of negotiation. The St. Louis Derby of 1902 to be run at the Fair Grounds next June, will at the lowest valuation amount to 5,000, with a possibility of going up to 8,000. , Jockey Spencer, according to a San Francisco paper, thinks of going to England to ride next yoar. He and jockey Scherrer have taken a home in Berkeley, Little Jimmy Michaels, the clever bicyclist, has signed to ride horsos in France next year for a man named Cooke.
