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I I " 1 1 ■ 1 NOTES OF THE TURF. The broodmare Farfalla is the dam of the first ri teal at Silver Brook Stud of W. S. Fanshawe. The „. colt is by Heno. Algernon Daingerfield. assistaut secretary of the i,. Jockey Club, has been absent from his office for " several days owing to illness. Arthur J. Hancock, manager of the Ellerslie Stud iu Virginia, reports that tlie first Ellerslie foal of d the year is a bay colt by Fatherless — Eollde. Dr. James Kerr, of the Antrim Stud at Warreu ton, Va.. has sold the broodmare Valorous to Will iaui Astor Chandler, who is establishing a breeding I farm near Leesburg, Va., with the stallions Caldron 1, and Olympian at its head. The Jockey Club library has recently acquired a II s.t of English Kacing Calendars from 1751 to 1772. making its set of Euglish Racing Calendars com Btoae from tliil to the present time. Another recent pun base was a set of Freinh Raeing Calendars fiotu 1S75 to dale. H. O. B-.lwell has purchased from Charles B. 1 Ditrtiell tin- six year old bay horse Von Tromp for 00. The deal between A. B. Spreckels and Dur sell, which has been pending for several weeks, was s never close.1 ami Von Tromp will not lie retired to " the stud, but remain in training Tor the present sea 1 son at least. Trainer T. Murphy has only I wo horses in hi s ■table at Slieepslu*ad Bay at Hie present time. They BTC Ida D. a three year old lilly. and all nil 1 iianml two year old brown coll by St. Maxim Ur hid. Daihl QMl who owns them, will send ,| Murphy 11 number of horses from his New Jersey ■V fjirtn upon his return from the south. r.n-i v Si hreiber. in sp-aking of the tiiuil running *" „ proclivi.il* of hanrS SjSSi l»V his stallion. Sain. 1. sayst The IsJat .ire not partial Is heavy, sticky going, bill I never saw one thai was not a :l c.,.„| hSffSS in sloppy going. Otis, which was I of s.i i 1 s flSBt U-t. was about the worst mud horse ,,. I tMS kiew but a wonder in sloppy going. f»n a drying out track, though, be was a bad prop.. sitioii iitid the same thing was true of his biothei. r- Ed .Sheridan."
