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NOTES OF THE TURF. II. McCarren, Jr. is the reported purchaser from Milton Young of the two-year-olds Camel and Left Over. Barney Schreibers Minnolettc, the two-year-old ch. f, by Mindora Ravolette. was sold at auction last Thursday at Dallas. Tex., and brought 50. Walter Odom has returned to San Francisco from the northwest, where he served as an official at various fair meetings. Odom will again fill the position of entry clerk at the Oakland track. Jockey Eddie Lynch has returned to Oakland from Santa Maria, where he rode with marked success during the five-days meeting recently given. The hoy will ride here as a free lance under the management of P. G. Lynch, his uncle. The Pasadena Stables chief dependence at the coming Santa Anita meeting will be Old Timer, the tlirec-year-old colt Ty Elkhorn Argent. In a long summer rest Old Timer has developed into a fine looking horse and promises to show up well during the approaching season. Jockey Borcl, who had a bad fall at Butto. which kept him out of the saddle most of the summer, has been riding at the fair meetings in the northwest. He was especially successful during the recent meeting at Salt Lake City, where last week he performed the rare feat of winning the entire card for the day. Sir Thomas Shaughnessy. president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, has begun to get together a racing stable with the aid of O. J Fitzgerald. He already onus ithe ttwo-year-old Silk Hose, purchased some time ago from S. C. Hlldreth. and expects to have enough good, horses next year to cut considerable of a figure on the Canadian tracks. Besides the seventeen yearlings in the stable of F. A. Forsythc. which reached Oakland on October 26, there are several two-year-olds that have never faced the barrier, the most promising being Kenraure. a bay colt by Oddfellow Kinda, Oesa, a chestnut colt by Oddfellow Fairy Dell, and Halloween, a brown filly by G. W. Johnson Virginia Lee.
