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NOTES OF THE TURF. Nealon has stake engagements at Bennings, but will not be raced there; " Harry White is at Aqueduct drumming for entries to the Crescent City Jockey Clubs stakes. The Century Stakes winner. Bedouin, has been blistered and trainer Huggins thinks he will stand training and racing next year. The Caulfield Cup, at Sydney, N. S. W., was won by the three-year-old Poseidon, the favorite, SImonda ?was second and Booran third. Mr. C. J. Cunningham, of Muirhouselay, Kelso, ;a well-known all-round Scottish sportsman, is dead. He owned a Grand National winner in Why Not, ;and rode .Cloister when he finished second. John Huggins will go to his Texas ranch at the end of the Aqueduct meeting and put in a few weeks in hunting. His foreman will look after the Duryea and .Tewett horses until his return. San Francisco dispatches announce that the California Jockey Clubs stakes have received entries fully nil to the standard of last year in all respects, the Andrew Selling Stakes heading the list with 142 nominations. ! "Boots" Durnell is .trying to buy Lotus. He paid .W. P. Burch 5,000 for her last year, but after being ruled off in California, sold her to William ! Dubois. She is a grand filly and, In her present iform, would probably be able to defeat any horse jln training at a mile. j Martin, a stable boy employed by G. B. Hill, who hvas accidentally shot by one of his fellow eni-jployees,- "two weeks ago, is dead. White, who was out on 00 bail, is now in the house of detention jand will be tried before the Childrens Court, In ; Brooklyn. Before his death Martin made a state-;ment saying that the shooting was accidental. ; The Versailles France Court is investigating a case in which the facts are as follows: In August last year a two-year-old filly, whose name was given as "Trene," won the Prix de la Hautle. It was an easy victory, and following it M. Camllle" Blanc bought Trene for a little over 300. It is" now .alleged that the winner was not Trene at all, but a substitute almost exactly like her.
