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NOTES OF THE TURF. Julius Bauer has sold the black gelding, Farmer. He is a two-year-old son of Previous and Veracious and showed some promise in his trials last spring. Jockey Butwcll has severed his connection with the I. II. Miller stable and will ride as a free lance during the rest of the winter, unless he makes other riding connections. John Miller is making up a carload of horses at New York for Lexington, and Coy Maid is one that is booked to go along. She will be sent to E. R. Bradleys Idle Hour Farm. Harry Stover has bought the six-year-old black horse, St George, Jr., by St. George Gadabout, by Wanderer, from T. E. McLaughlin. McLaughlin took one of the Stover yearlings in part payment for the horse. m One of the reasons S. C. Hildreth gives for taking liis stable to Santa Anita Park is the fact that lie has been a great sufferer lately from catarrh and neuralgia and thinks the change of climate will be beneficial to his health. William St. Vincent and Harry Mack have already thoroughly broken the colts and fillies they purchased at the Ormondale sale and both of these experienced horsemen say they never handled more tractable and intelligent yearlings. Purses to the value of ,700 will be given at the two days race meeting to be held at Calgary, Canadian northwest, May 25-26. The meeting will bo held under the control of the fire department and the Calgary Turf Club. Advices from the Island of Fij say that the Governors Cup race of 1907 was won by the Australian-bred mare Luminous. Luminous is by Launccston Foxglove and was also the winner of I lie cup last year. In this years race she carried 140 pounds. William Shields has shipped all his Gravesend division to Washington, where he will keep them for the rest of the winter. It is his present intention to be ready for an early start at Benning and to that end he has closed up his Gravesend house and will himself live in Washington. It is reported from Memphis that John W. Schorr contemplates sending a small stable abroad next spring for racing in Germany. If he does, it is also probable that George Walker, who trained for him before going to Germany to handle the stable of Weinberg Bros., will also train the Schorr horses. Harry Mack says the chestnut filly by The Weaver Maud Sherwood, which he bought at the Ormondale sale last week for 00, looks exactly like the great marc Yo Tambien did in her yearling form. Mack will name the filly Libble H., providing the name can be had, after liis mother, who 13 a niece of General Sam Houston.
