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NOTES OF THE TURF. R. F. Carman has purchased Pal from C. B. Wilson. W. B. Scroggins of Lexington, Ky., is at Santa Anita Park visiting William Rrnniek. Colonel Scroggins is a member of the stall of Governor Wilson of Kentucky. J. F. Newman and B. A. Trammel of Sweetwater, Texas, are recent arrivals at Santa Anita Park. Mr. Newman is visiting his son Hart, who is racing a stable, owned jointly by father and son, at tlie new track and will return home within a fortnight. The German government is sending the four-year-old stallion. Kevelaer, to German southwest Africa for stud purposes in that colony. Kevelaer is by" the English-bred stallion, Joyful — Volosca. Although a winner, Kevelaer was rather disappointing as a race horse. Jockey J. II. Martin, who remained in England Ibis winter instead of coining to this country, has established a time record on the toboggan slide at D.ivos Platz. He made the two-mile descent recently going around all of the fifty turns without one ■ upsetting in a second less than live minutes. Thomas Vigors, the Irish authority on the thoroughbred who wrote over the name Ashplant. is dead. It is over twenty years ago that he owned The Baron when that horse started an r dds-oii favorite for the Derby. He could have sold The Baron for o, HXl. but would not. The defeat by Merry Hampton was a disappointment which lie never quite forgot. An honor which may or-may not be unique has just b.«en conferred upon Charles Todd, the famous English plater of race horses, who has been appointed by royal warrant shoesmith and farrier to his majesty. Most people regard a shoeingsmith merelv as a blacksmith, part of whose work it is to put on horses shoes. Mr. Todd is on a different plane. He has passed examinations on the subject .f the horses foot in advance of the majority of the most famous of the veterinary surgeons of the day. nay.
