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NOTES OF THE TURF. I h. race Egbert is at Los Angeles, where his health is slowly improving. .turkey Vincent Iowers is the star rider at New Orleans with Nlcol and Nottcr on the ground. Tie- first foal on tin- oast is reported from Brentwood Slo.k Farm: a colt by Rubicon- -Ranilet . II is reported that L. A. Cella has refused an offer of «UX 0 for his two year -old chestnut colt, ftftCHl frill, by Yankee— Halo. Tie- stewards al Oakl 1 have not taken any steps ;.s yet to hear ,1. F. Clifford for the Allah-affair sinee they ruled pff Johu Street, his colored stableman. George Johnson. Jr., owner of Sxamosy, Tos and other horses, has left New York for an -extended trip through Egypt and does not expect to return home before mid-summer. J. O. Rerdie, chief of the Arcadia police department, has joined the horsemen at Santa Anlia Part as an c wiler. having acquired Jim laniard, a four-year-old hay colt, by St. Leonards — Indifference. Frederick Johnson, who was taken seriously ill during the Belmont Park meeting last fall, has recovered and is spending fte winter in talking shop with other horsemen around the New York hotels. Edward Trotter has taken Peter Sterling, Rather Royal, Princess Louise, Bye Bye II. and Lee Crest lo the Tanforan track where he will personally look after their training while his racing stable at Oak land will be handled by George Forbes. Bookmaker Goltleib I_vy fell from a New Tack subway platform in front of an express train las Wednesday and was so badly injured that he died shortly afterwards al the Roosevelt Hospital. Levy was aaj his way down town from his residence a: 1038 Trinity Avenue when the accident occurred. W. E. Lemmons will sell Pajarolta and the two year olds H. M. Brown, Philistine and Royal Iiloi in the paddock at Oakland to-day. Lenimons has put a reserve figure of $.1,000 on the three-year old. but is willing to let all of them go on terms of part casli and part time. He intends to quit the turf if the horses are sold. James Yillepigue has secured a restaurant con cession at Sheepshead Bay. Of it he says: ""I wil have a fine, new, big restaurant there this sum mer, next to the layers enclosure. Its the old room of the Pinkertous and where the telegraph used to he. Thats all torn out and makes a splendid mens dining-room. The lower part of tin-clubhouse, too, will be turned over to me for th.-members cafe and will be all fixed up in fin--style." Bookmaker Roy Offult says the success his con tract rider, C. Ross, is having at Santa Anita Park is largely due to his having ridden at all of tin-northern meetings. "He met a great many rough and tumble riders at those meetings and it was I liberal education for him," says Offutt. "If you notice, all of the Imi.vs who Mate at Seattle. Spokane. I.mte and the Idaho towns are making good lhi winter and 1 think they can hold their own anywhere."
