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NOTES OF. THE TURF. . Joe Ullman Is still In a bad way mentally, having shown little or no Improvement since he was taken east from California. The bookmakers are having a hard time of it at Arcadia. Nearly every operator in the ring there is far behiii"! in his transactions witii the public The threatened operation of the half-mile track across from City Park lias not materialized as expected. No reason is announced for the failure of the track to open. At Johannesburg, South Africa, where the summer meeting begins today, is run the big Christmas Handicap, in which twenty-four of the best horses la tUat country ace entered. 1 Old Roscben is . wintering finely and win be entered in all the rich eastern stakes at sprinting distances. It lias been determined to keep him to short distance racing hereafter. Prosecuting Attorney Fleming, of Los Angeles, is conducting a rigorous crusade against the handbook men of that city. He hast caused a number of them to be arrested and declares ho will not rest until they are all compelled to leave the city or quit business. The revamped story that the new Arcadia track is short is absurd. Contractor Alien is too experienced a man in race track building to get his original measurements out of line. In addition to that, the track has been remeasurcd twice and found to bo perfect. The colt purchase?! by Fred Foster at the recent sale of Ormondale yearlings at Oakland are the property of Colonel Daniel Burns, who has leased their racing qualities to Foster. They are destined to go into the stud at the Ilopcland Farm of Burns and Waterhouse after their racing days are over. - Stewart Hyde, who was for a number of years a prominent owner of trotting horses, afterwards deserting them for the runners, has become an inmate of the poor farm at Hempstead, L. I. Hyde lias recklessly squandered a large fortune which he inherited and was finally forced to accept employment as a stable h-;lpcr. The theatricwl friends of ex-jockey Grovcr C. Fuller, who fell into the hands of the New York police recently, gave a benefit concert for him at Madison Square Garden last Saturday night. It was a big success and Fuller, who was present, promised his friends to so conduct himself in the future as to retain their friendship. Had the winnings of St. Frusqair.s stock in Ireland been included in the list compiled recently, Mr. Leopold de Rothschilds great horse would have been at the top of winning stallions, for Rhodora won ,000 in Ireland. Galiinules two winners in that country, Gallivanter and Zudkiel, only won 15 between them. On the other hand. Galiinules progeny won nearly 7,000 in Germany in 1907. Up to the present sixteen mares have been nominated to visit SHevo Gallion In the coming season at the Kisber Stud in Germany and several owners have taken subscriptions for mares not yet decided upon. Of the other English stallions at the Kisber Stud. Bona Vista lias already twenty-four mares nominated. Royal Laicer, fifteen; .Villiani Rafu., eleven; Rocketter, eight; Dunure, seven; Admiral Breeze, four, and History, one.
