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NOTES OF THE TURF Jockey Sweet will remain in New York to ride for John 10 Madden aud T W Coulter and will then go to California CaliforniaJames James Healey has turned out Michael Murphys thoroughbreds at Oceanport and taken to the trot ¬ ters again Mr Healey Is racing a string oil the fair circuit He is now at Syracuse SyracuseJames James B Brady lias released Jockey Garner The Iowa lad is riding in good form but Sir Brady has so few hordes Matt Allen docs not think keeping a jockey worth While tliUn too Garner is less thai a good actor actorConservative Conservative observers of the present situation predict that if speculation continues to be permitted even under the restrictions that attend it the sport will in time regain much of its vanished popularity New York Herald HeraldHessian Hessian will not be put up with A J Joyners horses that are to be cold at auction September 26 before the departure of the North Carolina turfman for Europe The Watercress horse is the property of James B Haggin and he is lame lameJames James B Haggin the biggest breeder in America is quoted as saying that the foals by Hcrmis are among the best that he has ever seen H M Zicg ler who bought Hermis for 900 at the Thomas sale last week now declares that he would not take 25000 for the son of Ilermeuce which will be sent to Kentucky for stud purposes purposesIn In reality the Doncaster St Leger is a more inter ¬ esting contest than even the Derby for the reason that the host of the colts and the best of the fillies so frequently meet and it lias happened on iriuny oc ¬ casions that the winner of the Oaks has shown her superiority to the winner of what is usually consid ¬ ered the greatest of races it was at any rate de scribtd by no less a personage than the late Lord Beaconsfield as the blue ribbon of the turf Lon ¬ don Times TimesJ J B Ewing breeder of the pacing star Minor Heir 159 bought his dam for 05 The sensa ¬ tional green pacer earned his oats by working on a rural mail delivery route when he was three years old Ewing sold him for 4500 last year to IV C Isaacs his present owner Western horsemen are unanimous in the belief that with continued sound ¬ ness Minor Heir will beat all legitimate pacing rec ¬ ords Ho has stepped a half mile in 58 a 150 gait at Galesburg
