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NOTES OF THE TURF Henry Ziegler holds a contract on Lee Jacksons Jacksonsfeervices feervices for 1902 S C Hildreth wanted to purchase purchasethe the boy from the Cincinnati man The price asked rwas 8000 which Hildreth considered too steep jt steepjt is more than likely however that L Jackson JacksonjiU jiU rjda for MChesneys owner during the Mom Momjihi jihi meeting Judging from Intrusives last race he is rounding into the form that made him the best handicap horse at New Orleans last year He should be a fhard horse to beat from now on A race between Deathand him justnow at the Crescent City would be an event of some interest as each has a strong following The only strings of horses to reach Montgomery 5ark Memphis Tenn last week were the Canadian jumpers belonging to W F MacLean and horses owned by W S Barnes who last year arrived with Endurance by Right Birkenruth seems to have gone back in his riding says a San Francisco exchange He has been gett ingAway from the post poorly and has not been finishing as he used to This is probably the result of his recent illness W O Scully who last year trained the horses of John Daly and L M Myers the string including the filly Leonora Loring which was disqualified for the great Filly Stakeshas opened a public stable at Sheepshead Bay BayCharles Charles Thorpe the well known jockey will sail for France shortly Thorpe is under engagement to ride for one of the principal French turfmen the Viscount dHartcourt at a retaining fee said to be 12000 12000Assoon Assoon as the weather breaks at Memphis the aged Tillo and fiveyearold Wooster Boy will be put over the jumps these with Filon dOr will make a bid for the Cotton Steeplechase stakes stakesCaptain Captain A C Buck Franklin of Nashville and Gallatin one of the best known race horse men and trainers in the country is dying at the Douglas Hospital in Nashville from bladder trouble troubleRalph Ralph Bayard racing secretary of the Brighton Beach Racing Association having resigned on account of ill health John Boden Jr of New York city has been appointed in his place placeAt At New Orleans yesterday jockeys Slack and G Thompson were suspended for the remainder of the meeting for striking each other with their whips in the course of the fourth race raceT T C McDowell is waiting for the weather to break to ship his string from Lexington Ky to Memphis Tenn TennJockey Jockey Spencer is now in New York preparing for his trip to England where he will ride the Keene horses
