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NOTES OF THE TURF TURFA A hundred or more owners are stranded at New Orleans with little to subsist on there and no means of getting away awayP P T Chinns horses are resting up at Lexington He expects to have Pretension Madrileno Tom Reid J H Reed and the others in winning form for the opening of the Fort Erie meeting meetingLast Last year Half Sovereign was one of the best two yearold fillies of the year and her last two races suggest a decided return to form The Belmont stable with Fair Play Priscilliau and Half Sove ¬ reign should do well at Saratoga SaratogaHorsemen Horsemen are already preparing for the Saratoga Handicap Realizing that he would not be able to get Miller the jockey for whom Dandelion runs most kindly for the big race at the Springs Thurs ¬ day week Francis R Hitchcock arranged with Dr H E Rowell to have Sweet take the mount mountDandelion Dandelion has been at Saratoga for some time and Is reported to be working kindly in preparation for the Saratoga Handicap His mile In l37g in the Sheepshead Bay Handicap shows that his speed is not Impaired but he does not run as generously as formerly He has always been a good horse at Sara ¬ toga togaBilly Billy Myer has improved in health and according to the Picayune was at New Orleans early in the week for the purpose of arranging his affairs there pipr to coming to Chicago to stay This leads the Picayune to say His leaving the city is an ¬ other good evidence that the tracks will not run this winter This does not preclude horses racing over the tracks tracksJock Jock Fitzpatrick an English bookmaker took a large amount of money from bettors who placed It with him before the Epsom Derby In gocxl faith Just before the horses started Fitzpatrick who didnt even propose to give his patrons a run for their money was seen to descend from his stanU and bolt He pleaded guilty and It was shown that he had been convicted upon similar charges before The court sentenced Fitzpatrick to eight months hard labor for his welch I
