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. NOTES OF THE TURF. Charles Hughes has sold for H. M. Ziegler to John E. Madden the three-year-old colt Samson, by Sainfoin Eckford. Whltey Langdon is on ids way from New York to Los Angeles to remain until the opening of the season in the east. M. Edmond Blanc has sold to Baron Grundlierr the broodmare Wandora, dam of VInicius and Val dOr, in foal to Ajax. The backers of the poolroom at Reno, Nevada, had to find a new bankroll last week, it is said. The California races caused their troubles. A veterinary surgeon of Epsoin advertises in the Eligllt.li sporting journals that he has "thoroughbred stallions for sale; all sorts and sizes." The Picket is now in training at Louisville. Carroll Reid says lie lias entirely recovered from his injuries and that he will lie a hard horse to beat next spring. The Los Angeles News says the victory of Sir Wilfred at Ascot Park last Thursday cost the ring at least if KM, 000 and that 5,000 of it was won by E. Darnell. The American Turf Association will probably await the decision of the Supreme Court of Tennessee on the constitutionality of the Rice-Llgon law before allot ing dates to its tracks for 1900. Trainer Tom Healey of the stable of R. T. Wilson, Jr., lias gone to Hot Springs for a fortnights recreation, after which lie will return to New York and begin the preparation of a big string of two-year-olds. Elbert Reiff. a brother of Lester and Johnny Reiff, is training the biggest thoroughbred stable In Italy., lie ,is handling fifty horses for the most prominent turf patron in Italy. The racing stable is located at Pisa. The skull and limb bones of Ormonde, presented by W. OB. Maedonough to the British Museum, recently arrived in England and are now in the hands of the museum preparator to be mounted and placed in the hall of domesticated animals. The entries of II. T. Oxnards Inflexible in the Advance, Commonwealth and other stakes at the Coney Island Jockey Clubs June meeting is the first official intimation that the line son of Hamburg, which was regarded by the late W. C. Whitney as a great colt up to the time he was cut down in a race at Saratoga, may again stand training.
