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NOTES OF THE TURF. Iimljco racing cuds Wednesday. Aqueduct Thursday and Latonia Saturday. Oakland comes in on the latter day. Just six days more aud then- goodbye to Latonia racing, with a week to intervene before it opens at New Orleans. John- Boden, Racing Secretary of the Los Angeles Jockey Club, passed through Chicago yesterday to assume his duties at Ascot Park. The great success of a mixed running and trotting meeting at Jackson, Mississippi last week, leads to expectation of making it an annual affair to be taken in by horses from the north en route to New Orleans. L. V. Bell will hereafter abide permanently in France, residing in Paris and, so says report, will be extensively represented on the French turf, being fired with an ambition to rival Vanderbilt in that respect. Steve LHommedieu has sold his broodmare Espionage to Milton Young. When a two-yeaivold Espionage was a prominent factor in Chicago racing, and kept Louis Ezell iu high clover by her many victories. Jockey Charley Grand, a Chicago boy, who had his first mount at Ascot Park last winter and rode five winners out of flfty-two mounts, will leave for Los Angeles Saturday night in the care of. Frank J.. Kelly, owner of Jetsam and others, which he will race there. At a recent sale af thoroughbreds at Buenos Ayres. reared by the president of the senate, Senor Vii-lnneuva a colt two years old, was sold for 0,000 of Argentina money. It was the highest price ever paid for a. thoronghbred foaled in that country.. The colt was by Sinionsifle, son of St. Simon,
