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NOTES OF THE TURF Tainer W Cahill says that the poor showing of Security in his last start at Oakland was due to aiii Inflamed jaw which made him sulk sulkD D ilill will ship Sir Vagrant and the other horses in his string to Toronto this week He has decided not to take part In the Louisville and Latonia meet ¬ ings ingsHeart Heart failure is believed to be responsible for the death 6 James F Murphy a former jockey who was found dead in bed in Lexington Ky Sat ¬ urday urdayHereafter Hereafter no races will be run over the Jamaica track at four and a half furlongs In such races the barrier is rigged so close to the far turn that crowding cannot be avoided avoidedThe The New York State Racing Commission has granted a license to the United Hunts Racing As ¬ sociation to hold a meeting at the new track just outside of Belmout Park on Decoration Day DayW W H Laiidenian who lias been at the Kentucky tracks has gone to New York to remain the entire season with the exception of a month which ho will spend with his family at a summer resort resortTo To alter a Louisville parlmutuel ticket is forgery Each is sigucd by M J Whin vicepresident and general manager of the Churchill Downs meeting and bears a stamp recording the time it was sold soldAlma Alma Dufour Ed Corrigans sevenyearold ibay mare by Artillery Swanhllda which raced with fair success at New Orleans during the winter has been sent to his farm In Kentucky where she will bo bred bredAlma Alma Boy J W Youngs fiveyearold chestnut gelding which was injured in a race at Santa Anlli early this spring seems not to have fully recovered and pulled up quite lame after a workout at Louis ¬ ville recently recentlyThere There Is a movement on foot to hold but one Derby at New Orleans each year It has been sug ¬ gested thatr the race be run at each track on stlteiiiating years the track having the off year to substitute a 10000 handicap handicapIt It is reported that P J Ralney the Cleveland millionaire turfman has asked F A Forsythe to put a price on his crack twoyearold High Private by Oddfellow which is by far the best youngster shown east tills season seasonSome Some names for his Dick Welles colts have been Selected by Rome Respess The colt by Dick Welles Navasota has been named Watson another by Dick Welles Nearest Snnline and a third by Dirk Welles Tit for Tat is called Turley TurleyP P T Culnn has entered Pretension and several other good horses in the stakes to be run at the Montreal meeting though he is uncertain as to whether he can attend the meeting or not G R Tdmpklns will send six jumpers and is liberally rep ¬ resented In tlie stake list while O L Richards horses there will be managed by Jariies McLaughlin McLaughlinThose Those who feared that racing was being overdone in Canada ought 4o find consolation in the fact that there will be an interval of live consecutive weeks from June 20 to July 27 with no racing on any of the tracks in Ontario or Quebec The Fort ErIe meeting which follows this lapse will be the shortest held there In many years
