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NOTES OF THE TURF. Declarations for the City Park Derby will be due Friday. Jockey BoreL who is riding at Oakland, Is under ccntrari to Jim Neil. Joseph A. Murphy will be in charge of the racing at Dallas again tin- year. John Radegap will race hi- old campaigner Major . .1. arson again this year. At present the bone is running oat at Beannsoal Farm. It i- now said that the ninth volume of the Amcii i an stud Book will be ready for distribution between the fifth ami the tenth of February. Kerchevals victory in the Ruin- Handicap brings him a penalty "I" eight pounds for tin- Brighton Hanoi an. making his weight now 105 pound-. Many Improvements at tic State lair grounds at Dallas, Texas, have been authorized by the direct or- oi the association. A new grandstand i- to be eta cted. The fixed events to be run daring the spring meeting at Washington will close on February 23. the fixture of the Westchester Racing Aaseciatioa to close en the same da . I: c. Brien, of Nashville, ha- a partnership in teres! with W. V. Conran In Kercfaeval. This fact yave rise to a rumor that the horse was owned by .1 .1. Ryan and there has been a lot of palaver about it. A committee from the board of directors of the Dine Grass Fair Association has been appointed to confer witii Captain w. Harry Brown with a rh i io purchasing the Kentucky Associations racing plant at Lexington. Jockey Charley Gray, who was ruled off along wil.i the Fosters vi r the racing of Poseur at Harlem in 1004, is riding in Chili, and it i- said thai lie ha-met with considerable success. Jockey Michaels la i iding in tin- same c ountry . A dispatch from New Orleans to the Cincinnati Enquirer says: "A prominent oo-clal id the Western Jockey club states that that organisation purposes doing aw-n with the pernicious boohina her -hot se owner within the present year." Jockey Kent, who was ruled off at _8COt las; week i- the boy who wa- responsible for the accident that pat jockey Fallei in oi tin saddle: Keni was riding Preen in the Excelsior Handicap at Ja males in the spring of Im:.. He permitted that horse to bolt in;,. Wltfol, knocking her down and breaking Pollers leg. Through miscalculation tin- percentage of jockey l.ucien Lyne for last year was published a- being .12 in ihe table printed in Daily Racing Form in tlie early days of the present month, whereas his pel centage wa8 really .19. Lyne is a skillful rider and a yooag man of excellent habits who will be -lire I • do well in England.
