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ONE OF THE MOST NOTED FjrLLIES OF THIS YEAR. A. HAMELS NOTASULGA, B. F. 2, BY THE COMMONER TOUCH NOT. New Orleans racing is not expected to uncover and seldom does; reveal really high-class two-year-olds. Pew trainers with two-year-olds of great promise would ask them to race so early in the year as the New Orleans winter meetings would necessarily exact But "in the line of exceptions to all rules the racing-at New Orleans early in the present year did introduce two exceptionally good two-year-old fillies to tlie race-going public in Notasulga and Mollie Montrose. As between the two in their meetings there Mollie Montrose had the best of it, but all experienced observers held that Notasulga was really tlie superior of the pair and would prove it witli the improvement in growth and strength to be expected between the early months of the year and early summer. It was also held by them that racing over longer distances than youngsters are asked to cover in winter racing would be in her favor. Time upheld their estimate. Mollie Montrose was not heard of after tlie Louisville spring meeting, but Notasulga was taken east and earned for herself the reputation of being the best filly of her, age raced up to the time an accident forced her out of training. Notasulga began her racing in a dash of three furlongs for a purse at City Park, January 12, and ran unplaced to Lattice, Unity wick and Ziephen. She was then the property of A. Brown, and a big, handsome filly, but not ready. Her next start was made February 9 and Mollie Montrose gave her fourteen pounds and a beating, having iip 115 pounds to her 101 and defeating her by two lengths at three and a half furlongs in 41j. Next she ran third to Gresham and Princess Sue in a race which she should have won and in which Gresham was disqualified. February 10 she scored her first win. It was a purse at City Park, three and a half furlongs. She won by two lengths .from Black Mary, .Moutbert and eleven more youngsters in 41. a new track record. After this race she was sold to her present owner for ,000. ller first race for him was in tlie Martha Washington Stakes at the Crescent City Jockey Clubs track. She was again beaten by Mollie Montrose. Tins time it was at even weights, 115 pounds, and the half mile was run in 47$. Then she won the National Stakes at City Park from Black Mary, Ziephen and three more and the Louisiana Stakes from U. M. Fry, Ziephen and three others and was taken east. Her introduction to New Yorkers was in the Hose Stakes at Aqueduct, April 10. The fame of her racing had preceded her and she was a 7 to 5 favorite and an easy winner from Tea Leaf, Frizette and eleven more fillies, setting a new track record and covering tlie half mile of the race in 4SJ. -Next she won the Canarsie Stakes from Frizette, Master Robert arid five more in 47 seconds. Her first defeat In the east was in the Gaiety Stakes at Belmont Park, where Half Sovereign, with 112 pounds to her 122, bested her 113- a head. Then she won four races in succession, a purse at Gravesend and the Rosebuds Stakes, Daisy Stakes and a purse at Sheepshead Bay. With equal weights she- defeated the fast colt Cohort in the Daisy Stakes, it being the latters first start subsequent to his success in winning the rich Great American Stakes at Gravesend. Cohort was tlie favorite at G to 5, but at tlie finish Notasulga led him in bj a length and a half, with Nimbus third and seven other good ones unplaced. At Saratoga she stepped on a nail and injured a foot so that serious consequences were feared and she was retired for a long time. She was put into training again after recovering and ran unsuccessfully several times over tlie New York tracks, seeming badly out of form. She was then retired again and is expected to rank high in the racing of next year. Her record is as follows: Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Unp. Amt. won. 1007 2 17 9 4- 0 4 3,815
