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NOTES OF THE TURF At Millstrepm Stud there has been no change in the Instructions to Manager iMcCracken to have Adam and fifteen mares ready for shipment from Lexington Ky to France September 19 19The The Brooklyn Jockey Club will not follow the lead of the Coney Island Jockey Club In making Friday a void day Its program provides for the customary six dajs of racing each week of its meet ¬ ing ingWilliam William Dnbois refused 30000 for Charles Ed ¬ ward last year after the Golden Garter colt won the Derby at Brighton The man who offered him that sum was Sam Hildreth who wanted him for racing on the Pacific coast coastThe The number of Kentucky sales of the cheaper mares and yearlings the weeds are growing fewer The buyers seem to have cleaned up pretty much everything that could be bought for 75 and under Over 1000 such bave gone away from around Lex ¬ ington since the coming of the slump slumpGrant Grant Hugh Browne has ten yearlings at Foster Helms Grassmere Farm in Kentucky The majority of them are by Elkhorn The probabilities are that they will be broken this fall Mr Browne has not fully made up bis mind about them but Mr Helm says the indications are that their owner will race them Henry O Bernard who died in New York Thurs ¬ day was seventyfive years old Mr Bernard once a partner in the lirm of D aioDaniel Co and later owner of Goano and other good horses was one of the bestknown bettors on the turf in his dav James Rowe J II OlcCormick and Ben Prybr trained for Mr Bernard at different times timesWaldorf Waldorf Astor Jr has seriously entered upon an English racing career by securing admission for his race horses Into the KIngsclere Stable which Is the most fashionable racing establishment in England ifr ISL 0wnf jointly by the Dukes of Portland and Westminster who purchased it a few years ago and transformed it from a public stable into a private one excluding all other owners ownersWhile While Etherlal has but one stake engagement at Sheepshead Bay he Is well engaged at Gravesend being nominated to the Flatlands Stakes Junior Champion Stakes and Prospect Handicap If he Is stiirted in the Jhinior Champion lie may be called upon to compete with Field Mouse Trance Mediant Melissa Fitz Herbert Affliction Suffragette Ed Bedford Sea Cliff and Perseus among amongNassau othcrs Nassau County New York in which Belmont Park is situated sent Carl Burr to the senate at Albanv to vote against Governor Hughes last winter when the confiscating HartAgnew measures came up It is a pretty good sort of county and it holds its proportion of members of the Personal Libertv League There is a priest of the Catholic Church In Nassau who has clear ideas on the subject of personal liberty and he has been one of the most zealous workers in the Interests of the league leaguetrnVt trnVt S Ix11is s11 the old Fair Grounds race track there is a section of nearly 200 acres re voted to nark purposes The track itself occupies 110 acres and a large section is given over to sta ¬ bling When the annual fair was discontinued the site ceased to be exempt from taxation The grounds yr U7llr01t In j1 IF IFC C realty deal whereby nmM11 much of the stock held by tho CellaAdlerTilles confederacy was transferred to other parties in exchange for the corresponding amount of stock in the MissouriLincoln Trust building
