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NOTES OF THE TURF N The Commoner recently purchased to head the 13elle Meade stud is wintering well He looks high 3n flesh The young sire will not be bred to outside lyxhares Should General Jackson have desired to al Jlpw outside mares the horse could have paid for l imself the coming season On all sides General Jackson was besieged for bookings but all were turned down f Thomas Hales Australias most noted jockey 1 died recently of congestion of the lungs He was Jiorn in 1847 and daring his career on the turf he rpde the winners of most of the great races in the two principal colonies Between the years 1872 and 1894 when Hales retired he rode 496 winners 332 seconds and 195 thirds out of 1678 mounts the value jot the stakes won by the horses ridden by him amounting to 168340 168340V V The Supreme Court of Westchester County has i invalidated the sale of the Empire City race track at Yonkers N Y to Frank Parrell on behalf of the widow of William H Clark It is said that offers varying from 300000 to 400000 were for some un Icnown reason turned down The plant was recently sold to Farrell for 218000 218000t t The tip comes from St Louis that starter A B j3ade who handled the flag so successfully at Del mar afld the Fair Grounds last year will do all the starting in the Mound City this year It is said that he will very shortly sign contracts for the work at the three tracks tracksV V Silver Bill Riloy is having success on the block jat Oakland Its coming to him in bunches The jtbreaks that he had with the trotters last year would jhave been so discouraging to an ordinary man that tie would have despised the appearance of chalk r and figures figuresv v i At the next June sales of yearlings in New York General Jackson will have thirtysix head twenty colts and sixteen fillies They are all bred in the purple being by the sires on the Belle Meade farm land out of matrons that have made turf history historyCounsellor Counsellor Bill Brien the turfman and trainer lately back from the Klondyke is now at Lexing ¬ ton Ky getting together a string of youngsters which he intends to race the coming year
