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NOTES OF THE TURF. non. Perry Belmont has been re-elected president of the Turf and Field Club. There are about three hundred horses in training at the Lexington track. Monet lias won six successive races this year. In his other start he was third. Up in Canada they say that J. E. Seagram will have a particularly strong stable this year. Cruzados lias been placed in the stud at E. J. Baldwins Santa Anita ranch in California. J. O. Keene says lie is having his troubles keeping the flatterers from spoiling jockey Radtke. Julius Bauer will ship his racing stable from Kenmore Farm in Kentucky to Belmont Park about April 1. Steeplechase j:key Tim Donohue has gone to Ben-nings to get in shape for the saddle. He now weighs 130 pounds. Velours, in Frank Brulins stable at Nashville, is a three-year-old that the workwatchers are talking aliout. Just tab him. "Bub" May is getting Toots Mook ready at Memphis for the Tennessee Oaks. Her preparation for : tills race is to be most careful. The judges stand at Churchill Downs has been moved nearer the club house. This was done that the stretch might lie lengthened. The Santa Catalina Consolation, scheduled for Saturday next, is the last of the stake events to be decided at Ascot Park this season. John W. Schorr, it is said, has commissioned J. 0. Keene to buy for him three or four horses that can win in good company at the eastern tracks. Jockey Wiley is ill in California and it is intended that he shall come tn his home in this city, as soon as he is able to travel, to undergo an operation. Partnership in the three-year-old colt Waterbok, has been registered by William Scheftel and Oscar Lewisohn, each having a half interest. The colt will run in the nume of Mr. Scheftel. John E. Madden will tdilp about thirty horses to Bennings and the fjuw York tracks March 20. The stable is now at lliiinbiiig Plate and the horses have been working over the private track. Charlie KiiNluiiin In Hie most, promising three-year-old at Nashville, but It is said that E. S. Gardner, doubting his ability to go a long route, has about decided to race him only at sprinting distances. Jockey Leverne Sewell is at Memphis with the stable of !. II. Uowe, his contract employer, and will not ride again, except possibly in the Crescent City Derby, until the meeting opens at Montgomery Park, April 10. At the Crescent Park meet- ing he had 328 mounts, rode 101 winners, GO seconds, 41 thirds and 133 unplaced nearly 32 per cent, winners. W. W. Darden is about ready to ask Ivan the Terrible, Monsieur Beaucaire, Miss Crawford and Nannie Hodge to show him something at Cumberland Park. They have been galloping for the past fortnight. Seymour Beutler, who for many rears has been in the service of the Pinkerton Detective Agency as chief of staff at various racetracks, announces his retirement with the closing of the meeting at Ascot Park. Governor Davis of Arkansas threatens to stop all forms of gambling at Hot Springs after April 1. Sheriff Bob Williams has been quoted as having said: "Jeff can run the balance of Arkansas, but I am going to take care of Hot Springs." John Mackey is to remain at Elmendorf for several davs to aid in the selection of stallions to which the Haggin mares will be bred this spring. When he is through with the work in Kentucky he will return to California to give attention to his own horses.
