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NOTES OF THE TTJRF. California horsemen say that Dade will go east a much better horse than Meclick, his stable companion. ll is reported that Sol I.ichtenstein. the well-known N.-vv York bookmaker, has founded a publishing house in New York. His hobby for years has been the collecting of rare books. The Ladas stallion. Crickdale. .which J. E. Sea-trasa imported to Canada from England several years «V». has been purchased by Thomas Donley for stud duty at his farm near St. Thomas, Out. Thomas Hitchcock. Jr.. who was at Liverpool to see the running of the irand National Steeplechase, is expected to arrive home the middle of next month, when he will take up the questiou of training Salvidere, Hylas and Mr. McCann for racing this season. Fred Rurlew is working his twenty two-year-olds singly at the Graveseud track every day now, but not under the leadership of Black Oak and Dennis Stafford as formerly. He says it is a hard test for the youngsters to work alone, but they are all showing him fine sp. ed. Jockey C. Ross will not he seen in the saddle again before the meeting at S-atle next June. The right arm which was broken in a boxing match in the jockey room at Santa Anita Park one morning last week will be in a plaster east for six vveeks, the physician tells him. S. C. Hildreth sent Fred Rurlew a facetious telegram when M-elick defeated the Burlew pair in the Crescent City Derby. When Angelus and Chapultepec both finished in front of Meelick in the City Park event. Burl.-w wired Hildreth asking him how many stalls he wanted reserved at Algiers. Train r Thomas McCreery is still confined to bis home in Washington with the flesh wound in his left thigh caused by a stray bullet which struek him when Congressman Heflin fired several shots at two colored men on a street car when returning from the Benning track Friday evening. Ruhio. the winner of the Grand National Steeplechase at Liverpool, is the second horse bred outside of the British Isles to win the greatest of crosscountry races. His predecessor in the foreign invasion was the New Zealand br-d horse Moifaa. which won in 1904 for Mr. Spencer Gollan. Ort Wells has returned to his home in New York from a trip to Cuba and South Amerh a where h ■ saw some racing. Mr. Wells was greatly impress -.1 with the racing lie witnessed at Buenos Ayres anil said that the meeting at Havana next y.ar would be much better than the one held this spring.
