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NOTES OF THE TURF. Netting has been reinstated at Seattle. G. H. Keene is at Seattle with the horses he raced at Denver. Colonel E. F. Clay is on the road to recovery from his recent illness at his Riuinyinede Farm near Paris, Ky. Tarrlgan, the seven-year-old bay gelding by Tren-tola Glen Ellen, by Kyrle Daly, belonging to Denny P.rothers, died at Seattle Saturday last. A. E. Mnloney has agreed to pay the Louisiana Driving and Racing Club 50 per day for the betting privileges at the New Orleans merry-go-round and the ring is now syndicated. It develops that jockey W. Walsh had three ribs broken, a shoulder dislocated and his lower lip split when Vino fell with him at Brighton Beach. The lad is doing well and expects to be out within a fortnight. "Ilnndridlng" Kelly, the former jockey, is now training the horses In the stable of .Matt Reis at Seattle. Oliver Johnson, the former trainer of this stable, is now in the livery and sale business in Sail Francisco. "The meeting hero is making money for its promoters," writes a Chlcagoan who is now at Butte. "The attendance has averaged about 1,500 daily, and with an average of eight books on the betting lias been good." Down at Saratoga they do not expect Peter Quince, the strapping son of Commando Fair Vision, to make his debut in the Special tomorrow. The surmise is that trainer Rowe is pointing him for the Futurity. Charles Hughes, who is training the horses of H. M. Ziegler, broke and tried out Uncle for Catcsby Woodford, his breeder. It was after seeing tin; colt work at Lexington last fall that John E. .Madden bought him from the master of Race-land Stud. Standover, the four-year-old son of Standing, which Mulshed third In the second race at Saratoga Tuesday, is learning to jump, and Andy Blakeley, who is "training him for Samuel Emery, predicts that lie will make good through the Held before the season eloses.
