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i i i , NOTES OF THE TURF. Joe Yeager is in the city en route to California. Percy Bailey, agent for Fred Cook, left last night for Oakland. Starter Holtman and his assistants will leave here for Santa Anita. Thursday next. Miss Delaney is considered one of the best horses racing on the Texas circuit. The filly certainly can cover any distance and runs as well on a heavy as on a fast track. 1 Pat Dunne bought the three-year-old filly Apt yesterday from Edward Corrigan for the reported price of 1908.sh00. Dunne will ship her with the rest of his horses to J.os Angeles. The steamer Galveston sails from Galveston, Texas, Sunday, November 22, with a shipment of. horses bound for Cuba, where they will race at the coming Havana meeting. It is reported that Tommy McGee, veteran of the turf and for many years confidential man for Edward Corrigan, will establish himself In some other line of business in Chicago. Jim Hall, who was a shining light In the pugilistic world several years back, has been connected with a large stable in the east for the last two years and is now on his way to California. James Rowe. trainer of J. R. Keenes horses, has gone to Toledo, Ohio, to rest for a few days. While most of Mr. Keenes horses have been sent abroad, still quite a few remain at Sheepshead Bay, which often demand the attention of Mr. Rowe. Gene Waylaud says that old Ebony Is coming around and will be ready for the races Thanksgiving Day. If this speedy racer ever should get back into the form that enabled him to do a mile in 1:38 at Ascot Park he would be something of a bear at Santa Anita. That is just what Gene thinks will happen.
