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NOTES OF THE TURF. John Skaiu, administrator for the estate of the late Lexington, Ky., turfman, James Murphy, has learned that the race; horse Fred Ackerman was sold by Murphy to Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., of New York, for ,000 cash last summer. H. D. Mclntyre, secretary of the Brooklyn Jockey Club, furnished Skain with this information. The horse was missed by Skain and he did not know what had become of him. Jockey Clem Jenkins, who has been riding abroad for the last two seasons, will come back to this country early in the spring and expects to ride here throughout the season of 1903. He has not signed a contract as yet with an American owner and is still undecided what stables colors he will wear. Jen-kins did not have the best luck in the saddle on the other side, although he rode a number of winners when he first went to England. Top Gallant, nineteen years old, by Sterling Sea Mark, by Adventure, died at Willamette Stud several weeks ago. He was owned by J. 8. Ewing. Top Gallant was imported in Canada several years ago and Stood in New Jersey and Tennessee before going to Kentucky. He was the sire of such good performers as. Sidney Lucas, Algol, Typhoon II , Topsoil and Onatas. John E. Madden has just concluded negotiations for the sale of twenty broodmares. Thomas Hitchcock is the purchaser and the band of ma-trons will be jhippgd to his stud at Aiken, 8. C, about thelend of this week from Lexington, Ky.ff j l3Mr. Herz says there is no truth in the rumor that he will ship his horses to Memphis, but he will shortly send Lucien Appleby, Prince Blazes, and Rolling Boer to the Scoggan farm, near Louisville, to be fired and turned out. . Jockey Donegan, who is riding at New Orleans, is the little Brooklyn boy who was nearly killed by a fall from a horse at St. Louis last spring. He hovered between life and death for six weoks, but resumed riding in the fall. Cambrian did not completely break down at New Orleans in the Christmas Handicap. He wrenched one of his fore ankles so badly that he will be put out of training until the spring meetings.
