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NOTES OF THE TURF. The first snow of the winter at Nashville fell Sunday night. In the United States District Court at Cincinnati, H. D. Curly Brown, the former starter, has been declared bankrupt. E. C. Cowdin has sent six mares from his establishment at Mt. Kisco, N. Y., to Kentucky to be bred to Ben Strome. A New York bookmaker lias posted odds on the three big eastern spring handicaps. Sysonby is the favorite at 5 to 1. The decision of the Tennessee Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Bice-Ligou law is expected at Nashville Saturday. Newton Bennington has given instructions that some of his two-year-olds now at Gravcseud shall be prepared for racing at Aqueduct. J. M. Johnson says that Hallowmas will start in the Crescent City Derby and that it he is at his best on that day he expects to sec his number hung on the first peg. Jockey C. Morris, accompanied by his father, ar-rived iu Chicago from New Orleans yesterday. The boy is not in the best of, health and will rest up at home for six weeks or two months. Louis A. Cella has fifteen two-year-olds in training at Montgomery Park. Among them Is a daughter of Kingston which is credited with having worked three-eighths of a mile in 30 seconds. Walter Boles, an exercise boy in the employ of Johnson and Dodson at Nashville, is In the hospital as the result of Injuries received when thrown from a horse at Cumberland Park a day or two ago.
