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NOTES OF THE TURF. The two-year-old Inspector Purvis, by Montana Brier Rose, has been shipped from Toronto to Fort Erie. Advice, the nine-year-old bay geldiug by Fordham Listen, by Whisper, died in Alabama a few days ago. A snake bit him in the mouth. At Ostend, July 15, Orison won the Prix dit Golf at odds of Kit to 1 in the butting through the pari-mutnel. The bookmakers laid only 10 to 1 against li int. Willis Stout, a noted colored stud groom, died of old ago at Lexington, Ky., Wednesday. He was seventy years of age anil until recently was the care-taker of the stallions at Hamburg Place.. Ballot is not eligible for the Brighton Derby, which is to be run next Saturday. His principal engagements at Saratoga are the Saratoga Handicap, the Great Republic Stakes and the Saratoga Cup. The English critics, since Woolwinders easy defeat of Troutbeek, winner of last years St. Iger In the Llnglield Plate July 12. are of the Opinion that Colonel Bairds Martngon colt will defeat Orby for the St. LOger of 1907.
