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NOTES OF THE TURF. W. OB. Macdonough has disposed at -private sale of all the yearlings bid in at his recent paddock sale at Oakland. The West Virginia Fair Association will hold a race meeting next June at their new track in Parkersburg. W. Va. Herman Conkling has been appointed clerk of the scales and Elmer Wilson will be the starter at the Savannah Jockey Club meeting, which will begin on Christmas Day. Starter Holtman has ordered Miss HImyar and Byron placed on the schooling list, their unruly tactics at the post in a recent race at Santa Anita Park being the cause of this order. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Saratoga Racing Association for the election of directors, etc., will be held at the olllce of the association on Thursday, January 14. 1909. It appears now that Sewell, the crack sprinter of the El Nldo Stable, has developed a severe case of skin disease, which probably accounts for the poor showing of the horse in his last few races. Jockey Schleslnger sustained a painful but not serious injury the other day at Santa Anita Park while exercising a fractious two-year-old. The Ally ran away and after throwing the boy dashed through the entrance of the track, but was afterwards found In her own stall without suffering any apparent injury. Jockey. McCahey, who has about recovered from the effects of the Injury to his foot sustained last summer at Baltimore, had his first mount since that accident at Santa Anita Park last Monday. Racing will be one of the prominent features of the Winnipeg Exposition to be held next year and over 0,000 will be distributed in purses, to be equally divided .between the runners, trotters and pacers. An ordinance prohibiting poolrooms throughout Los Angeles County, Cal., was passed bv the supervisors of that county yesterday. The penalty for such an offense is a 00 fine or six months imprisonment in the county jail. The New California Jockev Club has secured new quarters in the Colson Building at Stockton and Geary Streets, San Francisco. An entire Hoor will be occupied by the Jockey Club officials about the first of February. Willie Simms, at one time one of the leading riders Jn this country, and who lias not ridden for several years, is going to Savannah, where he will get in condition to take his place in the saddle again, as he intends to go to France in the spring. Tommy Burns will also ride at the southern meeting. Kirk Le Seur has a yearling full-sister to the sensational .Tack Nunnally. The filly is a light bay. toy David Tenny Lillle W.. and is said to be a better looking yearling than her illustrious brother was. Le Seur also has a two-year-old filly by David Tenny Nina, which he has named Bonnie Selway. and of which be entertains great expectations. The sister to Jack Nunnally is a bit backward in her training, due to an accident while running out. but will be ready for racing before the Oakland season ends.
