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NOTES OF THE TURF. Olseau is galloping daily at Gravesend. Rome Respess is witli his horses at Churchill Downs. Trainer Fred Rurlew and jockey Frank ONeill are back in New York after "a trip to Mexico. The record work of the season at. Gravesend was five furlongs in 1:07 by Veronese and Tonieod. C. T. Henshall says he will remain at Oakland until April 1, when lie will ship his horses to Aqueduct. Royal Arch, a son of Fiorizel II.. and winner of the irisli Derby in 1904, is racing over hurdles in England. John S. McDonald says James R. Keenes two-year-olds at Sheepshead Hay are the most likely lot he has ever seen in one barn. David Gideon lias returned to New York from his winter visit to the South and is busy with Ills horses at Sheepshead Bay. Plans are being formulated for the subdivision of the famous Belle Meade Farm witli a view to making it a residence suburb of Nashville. The Waterhouse Cup at two and one-quarter miles is to be run next Saturday. This race, with eight starters, will have a gross value of ,400. Max Samuelson says the stable of W. II. Brown will not be raced at Memphis, as lias been claimed. Bob Tucker will take the horses to New York- after the Louisville meeting. Ananias is looking first class, but he will not be raeed until next winter. Ananias was a mighty shifty performer, but bis breakdown was more serious than at first expected. ;San Francisco Chronicle. Dr. Bun Ferguson, formerly of New York and a partner of A. R.Peabody, has purchased a farm in Sumner Count-, Tennessee, and will devote his time to the breeding and development of thoroughbreds for steeplechasing. According to the report filed in court at Oakland. California; last week, by Mrs. Margaret P.. Young, the estate of the late Frank T. Caesar Young, totaled 0,000. After paying debts and funeral expenses, the widow had 9,000 left.
