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NOTES OF THE TURF. Baldur, the winner of the Ascot Stakes and several other big races, was shipped to America last Saturday week by the Minnehaha. The horse is the property of J. S. McDonald, to whom he was presented the other day by Lord Carnarvon. Mr. McDonald was inquiring about what Lord Carvar-von was going to do with Baldur and asked "whether he would sell. "Do you want himT asked, the nobleman. "Yes," answered Mr. McDonald. "Well, hes yours," and next day Lord Carnarvon appeared at Mr. McDonalds hotel with the deed of gift. The horse will be used for breeding purposes in America. The five races Baldur won were over two miles. Lord Carnarvon was offered 1,500 guineas ,875 for him. The license money collected from the bookmakers at the Fair Grounds, Delmar and Kinloch goes to support the Missouri State Fair, which is held annually at Sedalia. The big show took place recently and was a grand success in every respect. The license monoy dorived from the sale of bookmakers licenses under the breeders act amounts to thousands of dollars annually. Without this substantial support the managers of the State Fair would have had a hard road to travel. It turns out that the layers sheets showing a record of three days business during the last week but one of the Brighton meeting were not called in by the stewards but by the attorney for the Metropolitan Turf Association, to be used as evidence in a suit brought against several bookmakers by a bettor to recover for losing wagers. The two-year-cld brother to the American Derby winner, Wyeth, by Wadsworth Fonsie, is. held at 0,000 by T. H. Stevens, his breeder and owner. He refused an offer of ,500 from agents supposed to represent John A. Drake, and said 0,000 would not buy the colt after his first race, which will probably be at St. Louis. C. F. McMeekin has sold to P. Dunne the yearling chestnut colt by Fonso Minnie Williams, by Barney Williams; to H. M. Ziegler the yearling chestnut filly by Wadsworth Red Dress, by King Alfonso; to J. E. Cushing the yearling chestnut colt by St. Floriau Nantucket, by Onondaga. Irritable, ch. c, 4, by Iroquois Toribera, which broke down in his last race at Saratoga, will never race again. He has bowed a tendon so hopelessly that Mr. Floischmann has given him to Dr. Johnson, the Canadian veterinary, who will send him to the stud. Three sons of the famous stallion Knight of El-lerslie, ran in fine form at Saratoga Tuesday. Rough Rider and Red Knight won the first and fourth races respectively, while Knight of Rhodes finished third in the Ohnmplain Handicap. W. H. May and Son sold their two-year-old Dinksie Tuesday to A. L. Aste ; price private. Dinksie ran second the other day and was taken out of the race by W.jT. McGrath, who later returned the colt to Messrs.jMay at a premium. ZU Mr. Thomas Cooks Tip Gallant is being schooled through the field at Woodbine.
