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NOTES OF THE TURF Colonel Robert Neville has secured Luigi Masnada to ride for him this season seasonProd Prod Burlew has sold Dashaway to John Harding a Chicago horseman but will continue to train him himJames James Fitzslimnons will make all jockey Dal ton McCarthys riding engagements during the Aqueduct meeting meetingM M McSherry will superintend the policing of the Seattle track for the Pinkcrlons this summer as usual usualThomas Thomas Hitchcock Jr has sailed from Europe for home and Is expected to arrive iu New York tomorrow tomorrowJockey Jockey Walter Miller says he has made up his mind to ride in England next year Miller received a very flattering offer from a big English stable to ride there this year yearSilas Silas Vcitch has Mcd Henderson G D Wilson and R D Sampson to do steeplechase riding for the big stable he trains and they have been schooling the jumpers at Bclmont Park M Welsh has sold the fouryearold bay gelding Hancock by Fatherless Merry Maid to Kelly Phillips who will ship the horse to Denver for the summer meeting at Overland Park ParkHalaca Halaca the threeyearold fullbrother to Hali ¬ fax ami Ilandzarra which John Shields raced at Santa Anita Park last winter caught cold while on the cars and died at Gravcsend Saturday SaturdayJohn John S Barbee owner of Glen Helen Stud has closed A deal witli Andrew Albright Jr of Newark N J for a half interest in tho stallion Peep oDay by Ayrshire Sundown by Springfield The horse Is now at Barbccs farm and has been heavily in ¬ sured witli the Lloyds of London j jTo To imagine that betting per se can ever lie suppressed is absurd In all probability the best and perhaps the only real remedy for the admitted evils which follow in the train of gambling Is to teach people tho essential folly not to say immor rality of accepting in stocks horses cards or what you will anything less than the real odds The Rider and Driver DriverCharles Charles Eastinan formerly of Nashville Tcnn but of late years engaged in business in New York City died of heart disease at his homo in New York last Saturday and his remains were shipped to Nashville on Sunday Mr Eastman was a member of the American Turf Association and well known to many horsemen of the south and east E S Gardners sprinter Charlie Eastman was named for liim
