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NOTES OF THE TURF. Louis Stock lias secured Timothy Wen from the Pasadiia Stable for .52.".. With the sale of his horses In training, George C. Bennett will have completed the conversion of his Ridgeway Farm into a dairy and squab farm. King James and three two year-olds belonging to John E. Madden have been shipped to Penning from Hamburg Place, where they will be prepared for racing at that track next spring. Jockey Hutchinson, who sustained a broken ankle when George S. Davis ran into the fence in a race some time ago. is now around on crutches, but does not expect to ride again this winter. Arthur Bennett, proprietor of the Quien Sabe Stable, has receive* notice of jockey Peudergasts reinstatement. Bennett has a two-year contract on the services of the rider and has a high opinion of his ability. The King is the largest subscriber to the Coventry Stakes, to be decided on the first day of the Ascot meeting next June. His Majesty having nominated five two-year olds, namely. Calderstpne, Minora. Princess dc Galles. Prince Pippin and Saints Mead. The Royal Commission on Horse Breeding for England will hold a show of thoroughbred stallions at the Royal Agricultural Hall. Islington, for three days, beginning March 10. Twenty-eight Kings Premiums of .42150 each are offered for thoroughbred stallions of from four years to twenty, but not more. Starter Dwyer is holding school for the bad actors every forenoon at Santa Anita and now has Da-ruma, Kinsman. Lacene. Luckett. Burt G. Lewis. Oconomowoc. St. Doreen and others on the list. Diamond will he added unless the gelding in his next start acts better than he has lately while at the post. At the next meeting of the stewards of the Publish Jockey Club, on January .10, a rule will be voted upon which will do away with the necessity of a horse actaully going over the course when he has a walk-over. It will be sufficient in such cases for the jockey to lie weighed out and the horse cantered I past the judges stand. Lavena C. dam of Tawasentha, Heather Scott and 1 the two-year-old Lee Rose, was the first mare to 1 foal at O. A. Bianehis ranch near Sacramento, Cal. The foal is a black colt by Bearcatcher, and Bi-anchi, who has the stud service of the horse for two years, is already predicting great things for this first Bearcatcher colt.
