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NOTES OF THE TURF. Bob Tucker has a mighty useful colt In Blondy. Tommy Burns Is riding In great form In France. T. H. Stevens is having a good season atSeattle. Dandelion picked up a nail while at exercise Friday. . Supreme Court ran a mile In 1:39 at Seattle last Wednesday. - It Is now said that noraeeE. "will beTn good condition by Futurity day. Willie Shields has sold Al Towell to Messrs. Plielan and Carruthers. " j There will be four fixtures at the Plmllco fall meeting, with ,000 added to each. Had he won the Hopeful Stakes with Kentucky Beau jockey Sewells fee would have been ,000; George C. Bennett is reported to have sustained heavy losses in his looklng operations at Saratoga. Perry Belmonts yearlings have been shipped from Lexington, Ky., to Millstone, N. J., to be broken by George Miller. The improved running of Peter Tan In the Hopeful Stakes can be attributed in a measure to the fact that he was wearing blinkers. A. J. Joyner says that, now that Water Pearl cannot be a starter, lie does not see how James R. Keenes entry can be beaten for the Futurity. Jockeys Ike Tnllet and A. Brown have been in- definitely suspended at Seattle and jockfry Fountain, was suspended for the remainder of the meeting on" Tuesday last. The three placed horses In the Great Republic Stakes were bred In Kentucky Tangle at La Belle Stud, Gallavant at Beaumont Stud and Whimsical at Raceland Stud. Jockey Davidson got an ugly fall in the steeplechase at Saratoga Saturday, but his physician says no bones were broken and that he will be able to ride again in a few days. William IC. Vahderbllts Maintenon added another stake to his credit at Deauvllle, France, Sunday. .It was the Grand Prix de Deauvllle. This fellow Is a racehorse worthy of the name. When he fell at the Liverpool In the Shillelah Steeplechase at Saratoga Saturday The Lad knocked down one of his stifles and it will be a year maybe before be is able to race again, If ever. "Curley" Brown, the former starter, is In trouble, at New Orleans. Five Indictments have been returned against him by the grand jury. He is charged with liavlng- operated a poolroom at No. 738 Gravier street in violation of the Hunsicker anti-poolroom law. James B. Brady secured permission to work Accountant between races at Saratoga Saturday, then he thought It would be a handsome thing to have Jack Martin ride him in the colors. The work-watchers interestedly watched the mile and a quar- ter, better tbaii 2:11, but after it -was all over the trainers and others rgot to work with their protests declaring that it was too much like hlppodromlhg the affair.
