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NOTES OF THE TURF. Roseben is doing good work at Gravesend these days. Beginning Monday next racing at Crescent Park will begin at 2:30 each afternoon. The public would like it better if the bookmakers at Oaklawn would lay more liberal place and show odds. Nealon will not be a starter in the four mile race at Oakland tomorrow. -He was cut down in his last race. A tax of 0 per head is now assessed against all horses that are brought into Germany from any other country. The New York Sun says: "Joe Yeager will have no horses this year, but will devote his time exclusively to speculation." In one of the London clubs recently a wager of 0,000 to 25 was laid against the double event of Holme Lacy for the Lincoln Handicap and Gladiator for the Liverpool Grand National. It has been decided by the stewards of the English National Hunt that B. F. Clydes Dathl, disqualified several weeks ago after coming in first in a race in England, was properly disqualified and they have dismissed the appeal lodged with them. In London racing circles it is announced that Lord Gerard, who won 5,000 on the match at Sandown Park which resulted in one of the riders being warned off, has presented the money to the Bentinck memorial fund, from which indigent jockeys ami their relatives are given aid. "Not having seen or heard of Prophet III for some little time, his Grand National bubble has exploded," says Warren Hill in London Sporting Life, "and it was plain from the first that he was not the sort for a Grand National." Prophet III is Foxhall Keenes candidate for the big steeplechase that is to be decided March CO.
