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NOTES OF THE TURF. Jockey Donegan, fit and well, is around the track these days. Doctor Neville, who brought him from the jaws of death, says that he can .gallop horses pretty soon, and if it does not hurt him that he can ride all right. Donegan, it will be remembered, fell, and Pettijohn, stepping on him, crushed his skull. Doctor Neville trephined the injury and the boy came around all right, though his chance was one in one hundred. St. Louis Republic. Spencer, the jockey, who has returned from England, says that the Messrs. Keenes colt Conroy, winner of the Brooklyn Handicap of 1901, and now in England, has developed a very bad temper, aHd has already severely injured two stable attendants so badly as to causo them to be sent to hospitals. "Packy" Ryan purchased the three-year-old colt, The Rival, by Halma Bracegirdle, last Wednesday of T. C. McDowell. Saturday evening the colt became the property of J. E. Madden, who says he bought him to race and eventually to retire to the stud at Hamburg place. Notice has been officially given that the price of admission to the Saratoga track, paddock included, will be this year. This is an advance of 50 cents over last season. Racing comes high down east, but those who would a racing go pay the price without grumbling. The entire stable of William C. Whitney and John E. Madden is now.at Saratoga. A shipment made from Sheepshead Bay Monday inoluded Yankee, Blue Girl, King Hanover. Gunfire, Morningeide and The Rival. Madden accompanied the horses. R. N., Chicago. Rasselas made his first win thia year.
