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I f I . : I * s ; • to 1 = NOTES OF THE TURF. A. H. and D. H. Morris will offer their horses in 1 training at auction sale in the paddock at the Crescent City track today before racing begins. Frank Lightfoot, who formerly trained for G. L. Richards of Boston, has sold New York and Palett • for Mr. Richards and will train a public stable this s season. Steeplechase jockey Med Henderson has returned 1 New Yofk from his home In the south and is as- ■ I sisting Silas Velteh in preparing the jumpers under his charge at Belmont Park. The license committee of he Jockey Club will hold several meetings at the Windsor Arcade n-xt week for the purpose of passing upon applications of trainers and jockeys for licenses. The three-year-old say colt. Moore Johnson, is recovering so slowly from his lameness that Johnson and Dodson do not expect to race him again until late in the summer. The colt fell lame in a race at Oakland December 12. last. Jockey W. Shaw will ride for T. M. Cassidy at the Washington Jockey Club meeting. He says be will be able to make 107 pounds and will do most of his riding over the metropolitan tracks on the horses Frank Weir is training for Farrell, Sullivan and Johnson. Barney Schreiber told jockey Kelly that he would make him a present of a horse If he would win the Indine Stakes with Cull Holland. Cull Holland is one of the largest two-year olds on the coast and has shown speed in his trials, but Mr. Schreiber says h • can not account for his pSSf performances. R. J. Mackenzie of Winnipeg, Man., will race under his own name and colors this year, and not under the name of the Kirkfield Stable. He has eight three-year-olds at Washington under charge of trainer Eddie Whyte, including the good colt Tour-entie. Margot. Sherring. Battleford, Saskatoon. Wa-terbridge. John Ross and Lady Kismet. Edward Burke has returned to his home in New York from Havanii. where he has been for some weeks. Mr. Burke is Interested in a new racing plant which is l,eing constructed near Havana, which, he says, when completed, will lie one of the finest in the world. Burke and his associate-expect to hold a winter meeting there next year. John E. Madden, who has the largest stable of horses ever quartered at the Bennlng track, is the chief nominator to the Nursery Stakes, having named twelve youngsters, all the product of Hamburg Place. General W. T. Townes has named five, which will run in the name of Aftongreeu Stud, the name of General Townes breeding farm in Virginia. Jacob Pineus has made application to the Jockey Club for a trainers license. Mr. Pineus has not done any active work as a trainer for a number of years. Long ago he was a trainer for Pierre Lorillard, the elder August Belmont and John Huuter. I*robably tlie best-known horses he trained for them were Iroquois, which won the E-psotn Derby for Lorillard, Glenelg for Mr. Belmont and Dagonet for Mr. Hunter.
