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j NOTES OF THE TURF. J. W. Schorrs Crescent City Derby candidate, Spencer Reif, may not be sent to New Orleans to start in the race. While exercising on track last Monday at Memphis the colt ran away and circled the course twice before he was caught. The extent of his injuries is unknown now, and trainer Walker said that he would not decide for a few days about shipping the colt to New Orleans. I Word comes from Nashville that Henry Gerhardy, who trained a string of horses for W. B. Jackson last year, has lost his reason and is confined in an insane asylum. Gerhardy was a crack rider in his day, and afterward a first-class trainer. He was very popular with those he came in contact with and numbered his friends by the score. A fall received while riding at Gut-tenburg is said to have been responsible for his present illness. W. H. McCorkle has turned breeder. He is well known on the turf as an owner and campaigner of the race horses, but now he has purchased a farm and will enter the breeding ranks. He has purchased the Price farm, on the old Frankfort Pike adjoining the Ash Grove Stud of Col. W. L. Simmons, where he proposed to replenish each season his racing from youngsters of his own breeding. Frank Lanterman sent Joe Teager ,000 last Monday to place in the OLeary book on McChesneys chances in the Montgomery Handicap at 4 to 1. When Yeager placed the wager he added ,000 of his own money. This is the first plunge of any note in the future book on the opening classic of the season. Lanterman is in New Orleans, and sent the commission direct from there. According to M. H. Tichenor, of the firm of Tichenor and Co., jockey Otto Wonderly has been signed to do the stables riding this season at a salary of 2,000. Jockey Buchanan, recently suspended at New Orleans, spent Sunday at Menmphis, and was released from his contract with Tichenor. Buchanan left for New Orleans in hopes of securing reinstatement. B. C. Evans, who raced Lena A. at New Orleans last year, arrived there from his Texas ranch with four two-year-olds bj Rancocas. They are Broom B., Bill Ford, Delia A. and Allie C. J. J. McCafferty has purchased of Ed Cor-rigan the three-year-old Frank Rice for ,-500. He has also traded Dr. Loder to Dur-nell and Herz, getting in return the four-year-old Benmora. Mars Cassidy, who will start at Bennings, has arrived at Washington and will proceed to school various two -year-olds at the barrier.
