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NOTES OF THE TURF. "Frisco" Gardner has a string of fourteen horses at Butte. Amberjack Is hopelessly broken down, says "Father Bill" Daly. - "Whltey" Langdon says Klip Flap will not be a starter In the Saratoga Cup Saturday. The valets to the jockeys at Latonla have formed an organization which they call the United Brotherhood of Valets. Jockey Baird, who took French leave of W. H. Snyders stable at Saratoga, Is said to be at his home in Michigan. President Thomas H. Williams, of the New California Jockey Club, will leave San Francisco September 1 to spend a fortnight at the eastern tracks. He will be accompanied by Vice-President Adam: Andrew.: John Boden. Jr., secretary of the Brighton Beach Itaclngu Association, who has been ill for a year, is reported to liave been so greatly improved by his life in the open that he expects to be back to his desk next spring. Golf Ball will start in the United States Hotel Stakes Saturday and. whether lie wins or not. he will carry the Hitchcock colors In the Futurity. It is to be decided Saturday whether or not Con- ville will go along with him. The bad ridetJockey Radtkc put up on Holschcr In the last race at Saratoga Tuesday, is attributed to his appetite. It is said that he devoured two pies and two glasses of milk and was doubled up witli the cramps when it came time to go to the post. No other jockey was available and, he had to rido.
