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NOTES OF THE TURF. Keep in e e ..n I aast. Berkeley has grown into a line colt. He stands KM. It is likeh that Sir Wilfred will have a race it Benaiag. The Carman homea have been shipped from Ben niag to Sravesead. May B. ii. dam of Botaaist will be bred to Si IMxoa this year. "Bab" May has taken his two bomea from Beoning t.. Umvesead. Maister will carry the colors .i General W. T. Townea in tin- Carter Handicap. Traieer Whaiea says he intends to start Okealte in the Second Benning Spring Handicap. In addition to the widening of the track, many other Improvementa are being made al Churchill 1 towns. It has been snested that the deep sandy going at Benning was responsible for the defeat of Horace i; Saturday. .Ine Johnson will have the mount on Malacca in the taller I la ndhap if he ean 1 ide as light as !.. poiind- ICIItoa Toaag has sold to lrank- Jones, si pabead Bay, tin- iwi.ear.dll coll Sempro, i Sempronina Lady Hoadley. It is said that August Helinoiit will engage Joekej Mountain in do much ot the riding for his slalde this year. Kinds Daaghter, T. ». BfeDowella candidate for the Garter Handh -ap worked ball ■ mile in i it» at Lexington, Sal unlay . I...H Tnara has Col, Iha Doaglai at harchiH Uiwns and will ie him a special pi epara t hm for iiu Qacen tity Handicap. Propoaer, the ateeplecbaser which has been sent to the Catawba Kami in Virginia, to rest up nniil fall, will do slud duty this appring. It is said that l.d. Ahey owns one of the heal two jeai olds at Louisville. It is the eolt l»r. Mathews by star Shout —Fair Penitent. The Bogae, full slater to Geraalaas, has foaled ■ tiliy by Advaace Gaard. The Bogae ami her ■ nil are the property of William Shields. Jockey Melaemey, who won the steeplechaae at Benning Saturday with Kernel, was laid up marly all of last season w ith a broken collarbone. Captain .lain.- II. BCCB, Baked tor ins 0 pinion of the reeeiit racing at Hot Springs, said: "It put another nail in the corBa of the weatern turf." Iti llatrix. the live year-old hay mare by Ossary — Santa I.ella, is dead. She was a half sister to Onaoadaae and was the property of W. OH. Mae-doaoagh. The Windsor brack has been oinned to the trainers. Aaaaag the aaraea there am twenty two be-kmging to Ma.kei zie Brothers, ownera of the Kiiklield stable. Jack Baker has Dick PeaeeU, the brother to Dick Welles and Ort Wells, in training al Lexington. He believes he will show up well in the three year-old division. T. I. Hayes, who for several years has made Nashville his home, maiatalaing extensive winter quarters there, has deeided to sell his properly and locate in Kentueky. Franeis Trevelyan, it is said, paid only for Floral Kinr He iirtainly got a bargala. Floral Kind should prove a goad sire. There are some ii.mI mares in Albemarle county, Virginia. August .Belmont was in the stewards stand at Washington Saturday when Billie Hibbs fouled Hen COBB, and it K said he directed the suspension of Joekey Miller. It is to be hoped that the chairman of the Jockey Clab will get to the brack more frequently hereafter. With the proper Stiffening in the backbones of the btewarils titers will be less foul riding.
