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NOTES OF THE TURF. Ed Trotter now has first call on jockey Morcland at AVindsor. Beckon is getting ready for tlie Vernal Stakes at Sheepshead Pay Saturday, and work-watchers in the east say she will give a good account of herself. Tlie distance of each of the four races won by Thistle Po this year rtis one mile and seventy yards, and the finishes were drives wherein his winning margin was never more than half a length. "Red" Walker is Canadian born and his greatest ambition Is to breed a winner of the Kings Plate at Toronto. Last summer he bought a farm near Fort Erie and has there now several thoroughbred mares. j
