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NOTES OF THE TURF. New York work-watchers say that Savable has bis speed and is ready for a good race. Kings Daughter is ready to win at about six furlongs, the eastern work-watchers say. .Many improvements have been made at Brighton Beach, the most noticeable being an addition of 100 feet to the field stand. It is said in New York that Sir Blundell Maple, one of Englands foremost turfmen, is seeking the services of Jockey Walter Miller. Three of the 240 Elmcndorf yearlings are reported to have died enroute to New York. The sales will begin at Sheepshead Bay tomorrow. "The best liorse. at the weights, won," said J. E. Seagram after Ellicott had defeated Main Chance in the Buffalo Derby. "Even at equal weights 1 am not saying that Main Chance would have caught Ellicott today." The Friar, sire of The Abbot, Is now In the stud at A. Erasers Loundale Stock Farm near Independence, Mo. He was sold at Lexington, Ky., last winter for 50. W. J. Young paid only 50 for The Abbot as a yearling. Edward Corrigau has forty-three yearlings. They are now at his farm iu Kentucky and it is said they arc the best band his establishment has yet produced. It is expected that they will be sent to Hawthorne within a fortnight fo be broken and trained. An Interested spectator at nurst Park, London, June 1, was Eduardo Elnen, the leading trainer in South America. He is now on a holiday In England, combining pleasure with a little business. He is the chief of the famous Stud Gonzales in Buenos Ayres, whose stock have won more than one and a half million dollars in stakes during the last ten years. Gallant Dan is now the property of P. S. P. Randolph. He won the last race at Gravesend Saturday in the colors of J. L. McGinnis, but John E. Madden, remembering that McGinnis had taken Dead Gone from him, bid Gallant Dan up and got him for ,300. Less than half an hour afterward he was sold to Mr. Randolph for ,500. Previous to the race -Mr. Randolph had sold Roscinount to R. F. Carnian for ,700.
