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NOTES OF THE TURF. So far this season in England King Edward, the sensible, has yon but 9,503 with his race horses. His racing establishment is said to cost him 50,000 a year at least. T. C. McDowell has been invited to act as judge of thoroughbreds at the twenty-fourth exhibition of the National Horse Show Association in Madison Square . Garden next November. At the Repository.. . Toronto. Tuesday. October 6, J W. Ryan will seU without reserve the steeplechasers, Gullstah and The Chef . iBoth are big horses of over sixteen hands and in racing condition now. John D. Millln ,has a number of Cunard .yearlings at Oakland destined for the early two-jrear-old racing of next year and they Ioqk. sp well -and, move so well that he has been obliged to refuse flattering offers for them from other owners. It is persistently rumored that 4 the Pimlico. meeting, scheduled for October 24- to November . will Iks postponed in order that it may not conflict with the Jamaica imeeting. October 20 to "November 4, To Jate no official --QtJS11 bas been. taken, Archie .lialtoti. fwherlyr aru6.nousiie Monimissiojier ind a familiar figure" atthe NoWYork race tracks for many years, died Monday morning of typhoid fevpr. A few years ago Daltou handled some of the biggest commissions of the plunging contingent when large wagers wero the rule and not the exception. vJimmy Rowes colors are the same as those used by Colonel David McDanlel. "father of Henry Mc-Daniel. They are a blue jacket with a red sash and cap. Rowe was a jockey In the early seventies and rode Harry -Bassett for Colonel McDaniel in the famous races with Longfellow, winning one and losing one. John Sanford, one of the most popular and upright turfmen of the country, btCs had nnythlng.but a good rear. Some races have fallen to him., but the contrast with the years of Chuctanunda,. Molly Brant, Vails, Caughnawaga. . Mohawk II. and other cracks of a few years back is vivid. However, be owns good stallions and good broodmares and 1009 may bring compensation for the lean returns pf 190S. Many of the horses that were raced at Jaihestowa will remain over to take part. In the racing at the Virginia State Fair, which takes place at Richmond. Qctober p. 0, 7. S, 9 and 10. Four races for thoroughbreds arc fcrovided for each day with purses of. .00 and 00. Richmond is .a thriving city and may do well for racing. In ante-bellum days it furnished satisfactory patronage to several tracks in its vicinity.
