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NOTES OF THE TURF. . Tuesday will be Ladies Day at Crescent Park. The first of the get of Volodyovski will race In England this year. Ms L: Ilaymah has returned from Europe and Is now on ills way from New York to New Orleans. Count Sigray, the Austrian racing man, is still in New York looking for a jockey to ride his horses at borne this year. Willie Shields ran bis automobile into a New Orleans policeman. The officer lias instituted suit for 0,000 damages. Newton Bennington has decided to sell on the southern division of his string and will leave New York In a few days for New Orleans to discuss the matter with trainer Burlew. The name of the two-year-old chestnut colt by Concord Marothen, which ran at City Park Tuesday as Knockerkerky, is correctly spelled Knockirky. It is the name of the place in Ireland where M. J. Daly was born. No doubt Itecause Fretty Polly gave evidence last fall of having regained her best form, no French horses were entered in the Ascot Gold Cup, which of late years has come to .be a race of international importance. The 0,000 prize in Tattersalls "sweep" on the Melbourne Cup was won by an old age pensioner, who had paid in to the Melbourne treasury the sum of 57, the total amount which he had received at the rate of about a week. Professor RIdgway, an English college professor, lias published a work on "The Thoroughbred Horse," In which be asserts that the racer of the present day owes all his excellence to the Libyan horse, which antedated, he says, the Arab. Ed Cole has accepted the position of presiding judge at the new Salem track. Ed Jasper has likewise, filed; his .acceptance of the position of handi-capper and clerk of the course at the same track. Both are now officiating at Ascot Park. Flis was evidently not a star performer in Russia. A document from the land of the Czar filed with the Jockey Club, says that lie ran In a number of races as a two, three and four-year-ojd, and that his total winnings were 10,7r4 rubles, a little more than ..$.".,.00.
