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NOTES OF THE TURF. T. H. Stevens has shipped his horses from Oakland to Los Angeles. It is likely that there will be two meetings at Providence tills year. After the running of the Burns Handicap, W. W. Elliott will ship his horses to Hot Springs. Lady Goodrich, which pulled up lame in her race at Oakland December 2, is being galloped again. E. J. Baldwin is again at Oakland. He spent a fortnight, including the holidays, at Santa Anita. Will Applegate is now booking at Oakland. He cut in last Saturday for the first time this season. Weights for the Burns Handicap are due next Monday. The race will be run the Saturday following. A sensation was created at Lexington, Ky., when E. T. Graves was fined 5 for operating a handbook. Jockey .1. Ranch is visiting bis relatives at Bak-crsliehl. California. He will leave for France about March 1. Gus Lauka, one of John Brattons jumpers, dislocated a stiile while being schooled at City Park Tuesday. Trainers J. J. Hyland and Stabcr Willets, of New Jork, arc at Lexington, Ky., looking for racing prospects. William C. Guodloo has resigned his position as assistant general manager of .1 es B. llaggins Elmendorf Stud. Among the two-year-olds registered with the Jockey Club in England by Richard Croker is one named Senator Tim. When Tnrrigan won at Oakland last Friday, "White Hat" McCarty scored his first victory In several seasons at the San Francisco track. Plans are being laid for a meeting of seventy-two .days at Seattle. It is said the betting ring will be open to all reputable bookmakers this year. Jockey Eugene Hildebrand is on a hunting trip in Texas. It is reported tbat be may ride in Europe if his license is restored by the Jockey Club. A dispatch from Nashville says it will be known positively within the next ten days whether or not there will be any racing in Tennessee this year. On Monday next Jake Holtmaii and Dick Dwyer will switch the scenes of their operations at the barrier, Dwyer going to Oakland and Holtmau to Ascot Park. Californians in guessing at the weights for the Burns Handicap give the top impost to Proper or Lubin, with Bearcatcher and Eugenia Bureli close up and Dr. Lcggo fifth on the Lst. The filly by Star Ruby, out of Irony grandani of Flying Fox, which was knocked down to R. Bowen for ,500 at the Ranclio del Paso dispersal sale and shipped immediately to England, lias been entered In stakes over the water in the name of W. Astor. The crusaders against racing In New Hampshire are loudly demanding a special session of the Legislature with the object of repealing the law under which the New England Breeders Club expects to conduct the sport at the track now under construc- tion at New Salem. Trainer Bob Tucker arrived at Lexington Tuesday to take up his work with the stable which is to race In the colors of Captain W. II. Brown. The horses are ugw quartered at the Kentucky Associa tion track and will remain there until after the Lexington meeting, when they will be sent east. "It the geiieral slaughter at Ascot continues." says a dispatch from Los Angeles to the Cincinnati Enquirer, "the piker may realize his fond dream of the bookmakers perched on the fence like so tunny crows." Theres that if ngitlu, but .foolish piker to dream thus. With whom would the piker pike were his dream to become a reality? Troubadour, which died a day or two ago at Scnorita Stud, was bred at Woodbum Farm by the Messrs. Alexander. He was sold at auction as a yearling for 00 to 1. J. Swlgert, who raced him a time or two as a two-year-old and then sold hiiii to Milton Young for ,500. In the fall of .ills three-year-old form lie was bought by Captain S. S. Brown at the dispersal sale of Milton Youngs stable for .,400. Troubador was trained for his Suburban and other great victories by John W. Rogers.
