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NOTES OF THE TURF. Jockcv Wesley Freemans apprentice allowance will expire Saturday. Steeplechase jockey Brodic is again iu good standing at Ascot Park. It is said that Newton Bennington intends this to lie his last year on Vie turf. J. A. Headlev, Jr.. lias surrendered his contract on jockey William McDermott. - The next regular meeting of the board of stewards of the Western Jockey Club will be held Monday, March 5. Admirable Critchton, the half-brother to Pretty Polly, is attracting some attention as a candidate for the Epsom Derby. .Tockev Shaw is back in New York. He has no engagement for the coming season, but Is considering a couple of offers, he says. John Huggins. who saw Rock Sand run in all of his races in England, says that great horse does not compare with Sysonby. Oxford is getting long, slow gallops at Gravesend every day. It Is said that he shows great Improvement In llesh and action. Manv mares in Kentucky have slipped their foals this year. There seems to be an epidemic of this in the blue grass country this year. The yearlings at Woodlands are said to lie the licst all around lot of young thoroughbreds that Barney Sclireibcrs noted farm has yet produced. Goldfinch lias arrived at Elmendorf Stud in Kentucky from Raneho del Paso in California. He was transferred under the care of the veteran John Mackcy. Alex Shields says that the fact that Liebcr struck a losing streak at Crescent Park should not be taken as an indication that he will not win the Crescent City Derby. The colt Irish Brigade which is entered at Oak-lawn Park for the first time today, was originally named Marshall Biggs, but permission to change it was granted by the Registrar. Captain Jim Williams, it js said, has come to the conclusion thai Phil Finch should lie raced a couple of times more at New Orleans before resting for the spring engagements In the east. George Knox, who once was a famous jockey, having been the rider of Hiuiyar and other great horses, died at .Newport, Ky., last week. His body was interred at Lexington last Sunday. Green B. Morris is going to. France. He has been offered the position of trainer for a leading stable in that country, but wants to have a look at the horses before he gives his answer to the owner. W. E. Elsey is handling more horses than any other trainer in. England. He begins the season with 103 horses the property of twenty-nine owners. Horses handled by this man won 121 races and ,S70 last year. Watcrwing has pneumonia at Bennlngs and M. L. Havman lias been advised by a veterinary surgeon that there is no hope of saving this three-year-old Watercress Starlight colt. Mr. Hayman paid ,000 for Watcrwing at the Paget sale last fall. The colt contracted the disease en route from New Orleans.
