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NOTES OF THE TURF. Secretary Martin Nathanson is preparing the program for the meeting at Douglas Park. James B. Brady says Accountant will be a starter in the Saratoga Derby. Tommy JIcGee spent Saturday and Sunday at Hawthorne, returning to Latonia Sunday night. "Diamond Jim" Brady lays much stress on the fact that Fountainblue gave Salvidere sixteen pounds and beat him. Jqckey Fuller is now exercising horses for Archie Zimmer. He expects to ride as a free lance at Los Angeles next winter. Johnstown, by Clifford, out of Frolicsome, is said to be the best threo-year-old maiden at Saratoga. He Is in the Sanford Stable. In order to get a hash of the results at Saratoga, the agents of the New York poolrooms have erected a seventy-live foot pole outside of the track enclosure. Orau will be a starter in the Futurity, He will haVe a public trial for this great race In the United States Hotel Stakes at Saratoga, on August 23, in which he will carry 127 pounds. C. E. Durnell is spending a, few days in Chicago. He has given up his position as manager of one of the big amuscmant parks in New York. He did not disclose his plans for the future. John S. Bratton says he Is. satisfied that Dalesman, Flying Rain Cloud and Byrne of Roserea will make good, over the jumps in the east. They will be sent to Shcepshead Bay from Latonia., W. OB, Maedonough Is keenly disappointed at the poor showing of Ornondale In distance races. It Is said that he has expressed the opinion that the eon of Ormonde is essentially a sprinter. Mohawk II. will start in the" Great Republic next Saturday, so will Gallavant. That Mohawk II. was short:, in his race for the Travers there is no doubt, It shouldnt be surprising if he turns the tables on Gallavant next time. Mode NIcolI has returned.. his three-year-old filly Gabriclle, to the Kentucky Association course. He took this daughter of Woolsthorpe and May Kennedy east lii the "hope that she uilglit distinguish, herself. She possesses none of the superb qualifies of her half brother, OConncll. egiiipgs lieloaglPS to jfoba e, Madaynt Augus Belmont, the Messrs. Hitchcock and Frank C. Bishop will 10 sold at Saratoga today and tomorrow. Next .Monday the yearlings of W. O. Iarmer and E. S. Gardner will be disposed of. The sales will be conducted by the Faslg-Tipton Company. After the defeat of De Mund in the Saratoga Special somebody started the rumor that Paul J. Raincy was so disgusted with the performance that he had declared his intention of selling the son of Goldfinch. Like most rumors of the kind, it proved without foundation. Mr. Ralneys reply was: "I am buying horses, not selling them." Nicetas, the thrcc-y ear-old filly, by Previous May Mack, has joined the band of broodmares at Kenmore Farm. Before shipping her to Shcepshead Bay last spring Julius Bauer bred her to Mesmerist, lie thought she would be a good racing tool for the summer, but she disappointed him. Theodore Winters, the veteran breeder, died at San Francisco, on August 4. Mr. Winters was eighty-three years or age. He was one of the pioneers in California, going there from Kentucky. His payment of 5,001 for Norfolk to R. A. Alexander was oiio of the sensations of that time. Mr. Alexander had declared that the first son of Lexington must bring over 5,000.
