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NOTES OF THE TURF. Starter Jake Holtman is nursing a very sore nose after having undergone an operation to get Tid of an obstruction that bothered him for years. William Caine will have second call on the services of jockey O. Russell during the- Oakland season. Russell is under contract to O. A. Bianclil. Jockey Groth was thrown from F. W. Barr while exercising that horse the other day at Oakland, but escaped serious injury. Groth is a plucky youngster and his fall feazed him not a bit. L. A. Cellas two-year-61d Star Ruby gelding. All Red. is one of the few two-year-olds at Latonia that can run in any going and go any distance and if racing was what it was a year go. All Red would be cheap at 0,000. Trainer Frank Taylors seven-year-old son. Gage, for "whom S. C. Hlldreth named a colt last season, is starting in to learn racing early. The little lad has a horse of his own, which he exercises ill company with the other horses of which his father has charge. Former jockey Eugene Hlldebrand. who has been at Oakland for some time awaiting the opening of the season, declares that he is considerably lighter just now than for two years and that he is thinking seriously of getting back into the saddle with the idea of landing a European engagement for 1009. One of the yearlings, a filly by Jim Gore Eleanor, which Colonel W. B. Applegate shipped to Oakland, is particularly promising. She has size, conformation and speed. Tho best youngster Applegate had was left in Kentucky in charge of W. J. Young. It is a colt by Cesarion Lateen, and will not he raced until late next season. Numerous easterners who delayed their departure trom New York for the coast in order that they might vote at the election will bo on their way west within a day or two and there will he substantial additions to tha colony of eastern stables at the Oakland track next week. Andy Blakele.v. n. T. Griffin. Frank Weir. Max Hirsch and James Caffrey are among them. J. W. Colt, in speaking of the election of Governor Hughes, is inclined to think that Chanler made a mistake when Hughes nut the question as to whether if elected he would favor the repeal of the Hart-Agnow law. In not declaring boldly that he would, on the ground that the measure was an unpopular one. Mr. Colt believes that the voters of New York like a stalwart man and that Mr. Chanler.s evaslvo answer to Governor Hughes question-cost him many, votes,
