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NOTES OF THE TURF. Jockey Shriner is riding well at El Paso, having piloted six winners across the line in four days. The National Steeplechase and Hunt Association has granted a trainers license to R. G. Lendrum. while S. McCIaln. W. Hawkins. F. Williams and J. R. Sullivan were granted licenses as steeplechase jockeys. A. B. Dade, the well-known starter, says that racing in Canada has a brilliant future. He says that all of the tracks in Canada will offer valuable stakes next year and that the Windsor track will be practically rebuilt. William Hawke is in tough luck. His good horse Cigarllghter. after having recently developed leg trouble, is now down with an attack of lung fever, and his two-year-old filly Aunt Kit picked up a nail a day or two ago. Clem Jenkins, the noted jockey who died recently it San Francisco, served three years as an apprentice on one of the United States battleships, and was what is termed on the race track an "old man" before he ever became a jockey. W. OB. Macdonough has sold three of his yearlings to C. A. Ross. They are: Bay colt, by Os-sary Plumeria, brother to Sir Wilfred: bay colt, by Ossary Helen Smith, half-brother to Listowel, and a brown colt, by Orslnl Lovellght. half-brother to Ormuz and Cloudlight. Jockey Upton, under contract to W. H. Spence, is making a favorable impression upon the Tace-goers at Oakland, where he is now riding. Upton is a mite of a lad, weighing less than ninety pounds; but handles the horses with skill and fearlessness, and for a lad of his weight and experience rides exceptionally well. Dr. Rowell. trainer of the Williams string, has shipped Big Chief. Big Bow and Ramus, three horses that he depends upon to win some of the season s valuable stakes for the president of the Jockey club, from Oakland to Tanforan. Dr. Rowell found that the deep, sandy surface of the Oakland training track was having a bad- effect upon the ankles of Big Chief, the pride of the Williams establishment. Big Chief has always been above suspicion, so far as his underpinning is concerned, and Dr. Rowell did not care to take any chance of breaking the horse down. But for the fact that the clubhouse and grandstand are still standing, nobodv visiting the site of the former Brighton Beach race track these davs would believe that crack thoroughbreds had ever struggled there for rich purses. The fence along Ocean Boulevard has been torn down, while only a few feet of the field stand remains. The "brick lawn" has been taken up. streets have been laid out In various directions and the track itself has disappeared entirely. It is understood that the big steel grandstand will be sold to one of the other tracks and that the clubhouse will be removed to an adjacent plot to be turned into a retaurnnt.
