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NOTES OF THE TURF. M. .1. Ral.v has bought the three year old bay coll Mlii -. by tialvestou- Oro Kose, from .1. F. Clif ford at private sale. W. A. vMcKinncy has purchased the eleven year old chestnut gelding Oold.-n Utile, by Roldcu Oarter -Lucille Murphy, from .1. V. Kirby for 9J9J69J, Sccretar.v Waller C. Edwards, of the Metropolitan Jim key club. reports liberal early nominations lo the slakes l« be run for during the spring meeting at Jamaica. Thiiinas H. Williams will, it is said, .present his ■ana Baaal ti the California Breeding Bureau, even if he do.-s not win one of the stallion races during the meeting. C. It. Wilson has sold Prince Brutus to L. A. Wilson, wlm thinks the gelding needs a rest lie fore running in a race again, and accordingly will not send him to ill1 post -ly soon. Jockey "Kid" Christie, riding at New Orleans under contract to Lee and Son, was a nowslioy in San Francisco until last summer. He rode his first winner when Blugg won a week ago t iday. T. L. Walts ele en year old black broodmare Clotho II.. |.y Father Confessor Lachesis. lias been shipped from New York to Stonewall Farm. Wood ford county, Ky., where she will be bred to his stal lion Don Royal next spring. Bill I 111 i ii . the sire of Salvidere. though now 24 years old. is still doing stud service at Stonewall Farm, and Mr. Vilcy sa. s he is the best preserve*! siallioii for his years in Kentucky. He will make this season on the insurance plan -no pay without a foal. The best of the foals of 1907 at the Walnut Hill Farm of T. II. Stevens, is pronounced by manager Fletcher Dryver to be a filly by Coventor Foraker— Aprils l~Mily. by Limleu, which now gives ocry promise of developing into a high-class youngster.
