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NOTES OF THE TURF. Gywn Tompkins has shipped Jimmy Lane to AVar-renton, Ara. The old cross-country campaigner has been a reliable breadwinner this season and is entitled to a let-up. Colonel Jack Chinn is credited with designs on the first Mexican Derby, and will rely principally on the progeny of the brilliant racer. Ort Wells, with an Oddfellow or two to help out. Tho Weinberg trothers. of Germany, are quite the most successful owners in that country. They have done well this season and twenty-one of their horses have earned for them the goodly sum of 42.3S0. Over in England track atliletes have been experimenting with oxygen with sucli favorable results that its use for horses has already been suggested, with some doubt as to whether it comes under the Jockey Clubs rule forbidding stimulants, or not. Mickey Shannon, who retired from the racing game a year ago. is credited with thie engineering at Greenville of the greatest coup ever pulled off in Mississippi, when on Saturday last he furnished the winner of the first race in Beth Goodwin, which was shipped from Louisville for the occasion. Shannon and his followers, it is said, reaped a big harvest. The passing away of the famous Brighton Beach track will no doubt recall many of the great performances decided over that course, one of the fastest in -the country. The Brighton Handicap. won by Broomstick when ho beat Irish Lad. racing the mile and a quarter in 2:02. tho American record for the distance: and the Test Handicap, when Herniis. with 133 pounds up. defeated Beldame in the fast time of 1:88 flat, will always be remembered as two of the most remarkable races in tho history of that course. A. D. Walstrom. owner of Jim Simpson, the colt which fell during the running of the Spokane Derby and was afterwards destroyed, threatens to sue tho Spokane Fair Association for ,000. Walstrom sa.va that the association is responsible because of a defective fence, which, he claims, protruded out on tho track, against a corner of which the horse struck: his stifle, causing the fall. Jockey H. Smith, who had such a narrow cscapo from death when his skull was fractured from aj fall in a race at Gravesend several weeks ago. has recovered sufficiently from his injuries to leave the hospital. He wishes to ride at the coming Jamaica, meeting, but whether trainer Karrick of the Oneck Stable, to whom the lad is under -contract, will permit him to do so is doubtful, as the trainer thinks tho lad. should have a longer rest to recuperate fully. That racing has lost none of Its popularity with, the American people was convincingly shown oni Richmond Day of the Virginia State Fair at Richmond. Va. Of the 50.000 people who entered tho gates of the fair grounds, at least 30.000 must have witnessed the ;aces carded for that day and their enthusiastic cheers of unmistakable heartiness testified how thoroughly they enjoyed the racing. It was a record-breaking crowd-there, such a one -as would do credit to a metropolitan race track la New York.
