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NOTES OF THE TURF. George J. Long says Sir Huon Is all right again. The Picket will winter at Billy Lakelands place at Brighton Beach. Peter Paul ran away two miles after his race at Hamilton Monday. Charlie Eastman came out of the opening race at Louisville Monday with a slight cut, having been jumped on. Dishabilles engagements at Belmont Park are in the Bronx, Municipal, Westchester arid Fordham Handicaps. It is said that the defeat of Halifax at Brighton Beach Monday, .cost E. R. Thomas and Sydney Paget 0,000. Frederick Johnson has decided to sell out his stable at the end of the Belmont Park meeting. : Among the horses that will go under the hammer are Aeronaut, " Entree and Aucassln. Summer Sea, the dam of Lotus Eater, died at Bowling Brook Farm a few days ago. The cause was catarrhal fever. Roy A. Ralney expects great things of Computer as a three-year-old and will make extensive engagements for him next year. There are so many horses-at Helena, Montana, for the meeting that opened Monday, that it was necessary to build extra, stables. Ethon is out of training for the season. George C. Bennett says he thinks the son of Intrusive has done enough for his first year on the turf. Trainer Mike Donovan is in a hospital at Graves-end with a broken collarbone. The pony lie was riding at Gravesend track Saturday morning threw him. At Bowling Brook Farm there are ten yearlings by Compute and six by Flllgrane. Robert Walden says one of the Flligrane colts is a dead ringer for Accountant. William Engstrome, who remained on the coast after the San Francisco earthquake and went to Seattle for the meeting at The Meadows, is booking at Louisville now. Since Electlonecrs victory In the Produce Stakes, many of the eastern betting people are entertaining the notion that the Futurity winner had little aid from jockey Shaw in the Flatbush stakes. Messrs. Henan and David Morris have not retired from racing. It is said In the east that they are merely taking a vacation and that they will come back to the turf as soon as they find something they think good enough to carry the Barbarity colors. The Arkansas State Fair opened at Oaklawn Park, Hot Springs, Monday, with two books in line to handle the money offered on five running races- rThere-fwere.;eIght-bookniakers,; on-Hiand,1" but a" rumor that bookmakers would be arrested frightened off all save Mike Sweeney and Barney Wolf. William Hogan, who is training the steeplechase stable of Bartlett McLennan, of Montreal, is satisfied that Wood Rule will make good In cross-country racing. It is said to be his Intention to give the horse little to do .until the Bennings meeting. He thinks Wood Ride can stand considerable more flesh than he is carrying at present. "Oxford appears to have got over the effects of his early training,", said one Xew York racing critic after the Oriental, "and he may be depended upon to hold his form throughout the fall." However, it is not generally believed that the grey horse has sufficient liking for a route with big weight up to enable him to win the Brighton Cup, for which it is said to be McLaughlins intention to start him. Flis, the Russian horse which was brought over last fall by Frank Frisbie and which was well enough thought of in the spring to be nominated for several of the big stakes of the year, is taking daily exercise at Shcepshead Bay. One of the workwatchers says of him: "He has not shown anything, but is beginning to go along well now, and there might be a chance for him before the close, of the season." President Tom Williams, of the Xew California Jockey Club has announced that, he will race a stable of five to ten horses in the east next year. He lias seven two-year-olds in training at Oakland now and it is from this collection he will make his selection for the New York campaign of 1007. "But," he said to a reporter, "I will not let on them. I never intend to bet on another horse; wouldnt wager a dollar if I knew positively that one of mine ..would win by fifty lengths." Trainer Arvil Baker says he will not start Cotton-town during the Belmont Park meeting. The colt will have a rest until the Jamaica meeting and may appear once or twice at Aqueduct. After that he will go into winter quarters at Lexington. It is not intended that he will race in the west next year. Owner Millett expects him to do great things In the distance races next season. While he is rather light and leggy and not the type of horse to stand hard usage, there is no doubt in the minds of his connections that he will go a route and that he will improve as a weight carrier.
