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NOTES OF THE TTJRF. Sheepshead Bay trainers are much impressed with Celt aud have more to say about him than the invincible Colin. The steeplechasers. Expansionist. Pagan Bey and Dunvalio. are exercised daily at Sheepshead Bay by driving to sulky and seem to like it. James Devlin, who is now one of the regulars at Santa Anita Park, says he is going to get together a string Uimsell before the season is over. Walter O. Parmer intends to make a tour of the West Indies after disposing of some business matters which will require his attention at New Orleans for the next few days. At Sheepshead Bay the old track will be devoted to training operations next spring, while the new course will be saved and allowed to settle until the time for racing over it arrives. Trainer Charles Hughes, of the H. M. Zeigler stable at Highland Farm near Lexington, has returned home from an extended visit to New York. He will immediately take up ten horses for early-spring racing. Congressman Gordon, of Tennessee, lias introduced a bill prohibiting the carrying in the mail of newspapers containing betting information and of "betting tickets on horse races," what the latter may be not being obvious. ,
