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NOTES OF THE TURF T C McDowell will take a shy at the California game and send a pretentious string to the coast be ¬ fore racing begins there this fall fallAgain Again has that queer organization the Horse ¬ mens Matinee Racing Club of New Orleans aban ¬ doned its Sunday racing at the Jefferson Parish merrygoround although it promises to renew it again the first Sunday in October OctoberThe The running races of the Connecticut State Fair at Hartford have put all other attractions in the shade and such contests will it is announced be the chief feature of the fair in the future It was the first taste Hartford folks had of stirring thoroughbred contention contentionJ J B Respess is afraid he may not get another race this season out of Dick Roller the Dick AVelles twoyearold The colt Is sick with a rash the result of Infection from a girth The trouble is not thought to be serious but is likely to cause retirement until next season seasonThe The advice of William M Kenney Jr the Bour ¬ bon County horseman to the owners of thoroughbred mares is to mate them with saddle stallions until the troubles of the turf are at an end Do not sacrifice these elegant mares breed them to saddle stallions and raise saddle horses says he heTo To obtain evidence In recent prosecutions for bet ¬ ting the English police have disguised themselves as butchers postmen sweeps dustmen ragand bone men and laborers Meanwhile burglars are left to do pretty much as they like and the number of undetected murderers is horrible Sportsman SportsmanThere There is some friction in the Los Angeles Racing Association over the choice of presiding judge Lucky Baldwin and Barner Schrciber favor a change to Joseph A Murphy with Colonel Hamilton as presiding steward The officials will be ap ¬ pointed at next Tuesdays annual meeting The Los Angeles meeting will open November 14 14The The Belgian employer of the American jockey Lucien Lyne is Mr E Rebaucourt there are no Belgian lords whose horses are trained at Zulte near tho French frontier by James Breze an Eng ¬ lish trainer Up to September 2 at Ostend Lyne had ridden seven winners out of fifteen races Breze has trained sixtyfive winners In Belgium this year yearGeneral General William T T wnes a member of the Virginia corporation which will conduct the horse show and race meeting at Benning this fall says that the venture at Benning promises to be success ¬ ful Tho Virginia corporation is a new though responsible organization The horse show feature of the Benning entertainment will occupy the mornings and there will be four races every after ¬ noon one of them a steeplechase Purses for the racers will run from 250 to 400
