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NOTES OF THE TURF. Steve LHonimedieu is at Oakland. John Lowe will train Blair Athol tills season. Billy Oliver lias sold Brigand to C. C. SlcCafferty. Joe Rose is reported to have lost 0,000 in his booking operations at Oakland. Jack Siartin will ride the Hayman horses at Iieiiniiigs, Aqueduct and Jamaica. Jockey S. Bonner will be seen in the saddle at Oakland in a few days, it is said. Bellsnicker will make his three-year-old debut in the handicap at Bennings next Slonday. Slatt Allen is going slow with Oiseau and it is said that he will hardly ask him for a race before1 June. Colonel Bill Scully is expected to show some likely two-year-olds at Bennings. He has seven youngsters. Sceptre, the great English race mare, has just dropped her first foal. It is a filly by Cyllene, the sire of Cicero. Superintendent Clark says the heavy snow was just what was needed to put the Sheepshead Bay track in good condition. Jake Holtmans starting at Oakland, has been much better since his return from Ascot than it was earlier in the season. "Father Bill" Daly is unreserved in expressing the belief that he is taking to Bennings this year the best lot of horses that he lias ever raced over the Washington track. Walter Hopkins says "The Picket gives promise of being a tatter horse this season even than when he won the American Derby in 100:;, or the Brooklyn Handicap in 1004." George Livingstone Richards, the Boston publisher, announces that he will not be .able to devote any of his attention to racing this year and is offering his stable for sale. Palette, New York, Nellie Burn, Eileen Bum. Will Win and Armington are the horses in his establishment.
