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NOTES OF THEjXUR; Jockey Mnsgravc is on hi3 way to Los Angeles from New York, where he will ride this winter for P. T. CItluu. Rufus C. Bush, who was entry clerk at the Crescent City track in. New Orleans last- year,1- is now conducting a hotel in that city. The twelve-year-old bay mare Tit Tat, of the Brownlcigh Park Stud, died en .route- to Kentucky from the farm at Goshen, N. Y., last week. Dr. Thomas M. Cassidy has put Greeno by for the winter in care of Thomas McCreery at Belmont Park. McCreery will point him next spring for the Bennlng Spring Handicap. W. OB. Macdonough has sent from Menlo Farm, five fillies by St. Carlo, to Kentucky where they will be bred next spring at Thomas II. Gardners Timberlake Farm to public stallions. Cliff Hammon, who has been acting as manager of W. H. Browns Senorita Stud for the past year, has accepted the managership of the Idle Hour Stock Farm owned by E. R. Bradley. William Gerst has purchased at private sale from Milton Young the yearling brown colt by Sorcerer Emma Louise, by Zorilla and the yearling chestnut lllly by Nasturtium Helena, by Mortemer. Owner Stokes, It Is reported, will donate his old campaigner, Banker, to the Jockey Club Breeding Bureau for service in New York state. If this is true. Banker ran his last race Saturday iu the Maximum Stakes. II. T. Oxnard lost the nineteen-year-old bay mare Mary C, by Billet Vega, by death at Lexington, Ky. The mare injured her back while on the cars en route to the sale from Blue Ridge and died shortly after being unloaded. It is reported that II. T. Oxnard has leased for a period of throe years the stud services of the stallion Ormondale from his owner, W. OB. Macdonough, and will mate him next spring with a dozen choice marcs now at Blue Ridge. Trainer Hirsch, since Beauclere won the Maximum Stakes Saturday, is of the opinion that the horse should be sent to Oakland to run In the Thornton Stakes. Whether owner Lemaire will coincide with this view is yet to be seen. J. L. Holland will, it is said, buy a stable of steeplechasers next spring and as a stockholder of the Los Angeles Racing Association, will try and persuade his associates to make provision for racing through the field at Santa Anita next year. Kings Counsel, the thirteen-year-old chestnut stallion which George C. Bennett withdrew from the sale at Lexington last week, has been sold at private sale to A. C. Quiscnberry, of Lincoln, 111. and has been shipped to the Quisenberry farm at that place.
