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NOTES OF THE TURF. It Is reported that Joseph Martin of St. Louis will succeed Edward MeCulIum as auditor for the Crescent City Jockey Club at New Orleans the coming winter. Matt Allen makes the announcement that Oiseau is out of training. He says the sou of Ornus is so lame that it will be impossible to get him to the post again this season. Carcws victory at Sheepshead Bay Thursday was ills first since June 1 at Latonia. This three-year-old son of The Friar has soft feet and shelly hoofs and it is said that Will McDaniel has resorted to the aid obtained by freezing them with ether. Vendor, which won the Eclipse and Waldorf Stakes last year, was altered about six weeks ago and is now being schooled for steeplechasiitg. Thoin-!as Hitchcock, Jr. thinks he will make good as a Jumper and expects him to carry his colors in the Harbor Hill. Just before the Saratoga meeting it was told that Alex Shields had made up his mind to go abroad this fall and that If he did not sell Go Between he might take the Suburban Handicap winner along with hliu. Yesterday that same story was again sent out of New York as news.
