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NOTES OF THE TURF. It is estimated that there will be over 500 two-year-olds racing at Oakland and Arcadia next spring, or about twice the number of any previous year. It is said that owner and trainer Ilamel has engaged Thomas McCreery, who Is the regular trainer of the George F. Johnson stable, to train Notasulga next year. Red Friar has been turned over to Thomas McCreery to train during the Washington Jockey Club meeting. McCreery expects to win a race or two with the Dwyer horses before the meeting closes. Pink Star, the winner of the Kentucky Derby this year, has been gelded. He is now at the Bourbon county, Ky., farm of his owner, J. Hal AVoodford. Pink Star will race again next season. Walter Miller received from James R. Keene Friday his personal check on the National City Bank of New York, for 2,090.3S, this being five per cent, of the amount won by the horses ridden by Miller for Mr. Keene this year. Frank Regan and W. O. Decker will ship all their horses to Los Angeles in one car. In the shipment will be Go Between, Kilter, Hal and Suzerain for Regan, while Adoration and Gallavant will represent Decker on the coast this winter. J. J. McCafferty has had a new . kind of bit made for Grimaldi, owing to a peculiar mouth trouble with which the horse is afflicted. -McCafferty will receive his license to train the AVernberg horses and will succeed trainer Bauer In that capacity ut New Orleans.
