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NOTES OF THE TURF August Belmont was a guest at the Derby dinner given by King Edward in London the evening of June S SThe The New Louisville Jockey Club has begun the building of a six furlongs chute also the widening of the track at all starting points pointsThe The big farm for breeding thoroughbreds to IK established by James B Haggin in South America will be located near Buenos Ayres Argentina ArgentinaRichard Richard F Carman may have another trainer be ¬ fore long He has been negotiating with Algernon Claxon who was last season the trainer for the Brownleigh Park Stable StableCharley Charley Wood a veteran English bookmaker of the t cst class virtually died in harness at the age of seventyfour He was stricken by apoplexy on the Nowbury rnco course and never spoke afterward afterwardSteeplechase Steeplechase jockey Owens lias decided to quit riding He broke his arm in a fall some time ago aiid it has not mended well enough to give him Its full use Bad surgery was the cause of the trouble troubleG G Stern easily heads the list of winning jockeys in France having won upon fiftytwo occasions out of one hundred and ninetysix mounts He has rid ¬ den the winners of the Two Thousand One Thou ¬ sand and Oaks OaksAt At Oakland Cal John Lowe is in charge of Gene Russell Veil Olicacla and about a dozen more that Sam Hildreth did not deem good enough to win on the big metropolitan tracks Lowe will campaign this bunch at Seattle SeattleWhen When Davidson pulled np H R Dulanys Billie Laiidon after the steeplechase Monday at Brooklyn and did not bring her to the scales the stewards nsked the jockey for an explanation Davidson said that the mare broke down hopelessly hopelesslyThe The Increased popularity of New York racing is shown by the remarkable attendance figures recorded from day to day During the six days at Gravesend last week including the Brooklyn Handicap day more than 100000 persons passed through the turn ¬ stiles stilesThe The horses of the Hampton stable trained sue cessfully by Silas Veilch have been turned over to the colored trainer Charles II Douglas Douglas has been associated with Henry Flippen on the western circuit and is considered a trainer of ability abilityTrainer Trainer Rowe of the Keene stable has not started the muchtalkedof Helmet by Disguise St Mildred as yet but the latter has been work ¬ ing well and may go to the post at Sheepshead Bay together with Wamba a colt by Ben Brush Cap mid Bells and others othersBoth Both the Madden colts which finished first and sec ¬ ond in the treat American Stakes last Saturday are eligible for the English Derby and Grand Prix next year but whether they will be sent across the Atlantic to start In either event is something their owner cannot answer just now nowEdward Edward Corrigan apparently has abandoned the notion of soiling his race horses and broodmares at public auction He has made no arrangements with the FasigTipton Company for a sale and he is disposing of runners he does not care for privately He will sell all his yearlings at auction however howeverIt It becomes more apparent from day to day that Walter Miller has lost much of his old form He had four mounts Thursday but failed to get one of them in the money On Friday and Saturday he did but little better E Dugan and Nottcr appear to outclass him to a marked degree New York Sun SunGeorge George Odom is making as many autumnal stake dates for Trance as he can He put her in several Saratoga twoyearold races which closed a short time ago and it is his intention to engage her later in the summer in the Great Eastern and Nurs ¬ ery handicaps and the Flatbush and Champagne stakes stakesGreat Great Kills the chestnut son of Farandole and Margaret Jane which started and ran last in a New York race Saturday is most peculiar in his white markings He has splashes of snow white that begin and end nowhere but withal is rather a striking colt One knee is perfectly white though the mark does not extend down the leg He has a circle of white just back of his elbows and an irre ¬ gular blaze goes down over the nose and shades up under his jowls
