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NOTES OF THE TURF Word comes from France that Jimmy Owens the crosscountry rider has arriveu and intends to de ¬ vote the greater part of the winter at Malsons Ijitlitte IjitlitteBird Bird of Flight II which won the second race at Empire City last Thursday is a halfbrother to Kings Courier the horse John A Drake raced wljh much success In England some years ago agoE E E Smathers another sorehead whose connec ¬ tion with racing did not add to its health is quoted sis saying Im afraid its all over with racing The game is on the down path with no sign of com liiK buck The whole fault lies at the feet of the bookies who wanted to graH everything in sight forgetting absolutely the public or its interests interestsThe The freedom of the city of Dublin was conferred on Kithard Croker on Tuesday last He was also made a burgess of the city Mr Croker has re ¬ cently contributed 2500 to the fund for the Olympian reception of New York YorkGreat Great Britain in 1007 exported 01783 horses the biggest export ever known though the total value of i20000 was exceeded In 1K 8 Canada comes first of all countries as the purchaser of stallions and second only to Belgium as the purchaser of mares maresTom Tom Shaw regarded as one of the most suc ¬ cessful of the professional Iwttors will leave for Europe iu a few days having won 47000 in the last four weeks lie bet 15000 on Trance a few days ago when she defeated Koyal Captive New York Herald HeraldYou You need only to go to France to be convinced that gambling or sjicculation is in no sense incon ¬ sistent with careful carefuleconomy economy There is no more careful or frugal people on earth than the Frenc oml yet they dearly love to win or lose a fe v francs over petits chevaux or an actual race The e is no such tiling as early closing in France ai 1 yet yon seldom if ever see a drunken man ther Altogether they do many things much better i France than we do London Sportsman SportsmanThe The dailies quote George Kose as publicly saying tills I have cleaned up S15000O since Governor Hughes signed the antibetting bill All my busi ¬ ness was on the credit system I took only oral bets1 I had good luck but I would have made 50000 more if some of my patrons had settled their markers with mf There is not one chance Ir a thousand that Kose said anything like this or that it is true Kose is reticent mannerly and constitutionallv inclined to verbally underrate his winnings if he has success
