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NOTES OF THE TURF. The broodmare Ellangowan dam,.of John Smulskl and Henry McDanlelj has been insured for. ,000. The stallion Dr. MacBrlde is now the property of Joseph n. Warren , and will make his next season at Markham,. Va. John E. Madden has bought .from Lewis Worth the good sprinting mare Mamie Worth and retired her to Hamburg Place. Candle, the . dam of McCarter, has been sold by Messrs. W. L. Powers and William- Lakeland to F. C. Bishop. She will go into the stutf at Mt. Klsco, N. Y. In a race for two-year-olds at Chantllly, France, September 5, a noteworthy aggregation of American jockeys had mounts, Shields, J. Reiff, Henry, Cor-mack, Carter, Ranch, Turner and T. Burns all riding. Mr. Lee is the nom de turf of Mrs. E. R. Thomas. Nemesis, which scored .in the sixth race at Gravesend last Friday, is the first winner In the colors of Mr. Lee. Incidentally, Lee was Mrs. Thomas maiden name. The feature race of. the United Hunts - Racing Associations meeting at Bennings will be the Groat United Hunts Steeplechase. It will have ,500 added and the owner of the winner will be presented with a cup valued at 00, the gift of the Bonnie-brook Stable. Troutbecks St. Leger was run in 3:04, a new record for the race. The finish was very close Troutbeck winning by a head from Prince William, he a head before Beppo, with the favorite. Keystone II. but a neck farther away. Prince William would have won but for flinching from an accidental blow over the head from a fast plying whip in the hand of Troutbecks rider. The previous St. Leger record was 3:03, made by Challacombe last year.
