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NOTES OF THE TURF. P. .1. lUlaiji De Mund is said to be in file-n mill .011. aud a successful season for this hhrh prlotd hoi se is iiredicted. The 1.1 si est time in arhleh the English Grand National Steeplechase has been run over the present Bourse is N:::t2. by Ascetics Silver in Ml, In 1882 Bnataaaaa woa the race in ;i::;o. W Maryland ,1.x key Club is eMKtieiicinu ditli- • -11 i t in supplying stable room far the horses which w ii! take part in the Pimlico meeting, ami the trotting track has been pressed into service to supnly the deaj nad. The assjis pnatag the Imerleaa stahle of Augusi Ih-lnioui. iu ih-jige of Uaiuer John Whah-p. will leave their winter quarters at Garnett. S. C. within a fear days r »r Baltimore, where they will lace at the Pimlico meeting. H. B Duryea paid a visit to Sheepshead Bay last Sunday and looked over his horses, in care of trainer S. Ilealey. Most of Mr. Durveas horses are in lrance. in eharge of Fred Burlew. Five of the marcs Mr. Duryea shipped abroad last fall have toalcd recently. Jockey David Englauder has made application for a license to ride iu the Argentine Republic. Eng-lander is a jockey who lode with a fair measure of success about the New York tracks ami in Canada. He is still able to make light weight and has kept 111 good condition during his idleness. In the ease of J. B. Brady and his trainer. ML M. Allen, involving the amount of 0,000 claimed bv Allen to be due him as trainer. Messrs. P. J. Dwyer and Fred Gebhard. the two men chosen to arbitrate the matter, have chosen Judge Burrell as third man. whose decision is to be taken as final. It is rumored that the eastern racing season will be opened May l."» by the Westchester Racing Asso ciation at Belmont Park. It is said that this was agreed upon last Monday at the meeting of the owners of the various tracks, but not one of those present at the meeting will cither confirm or denv this report. Kirby Snow, known in turf circles throughout the south, died at Cincinnati Wednesday. For several rears past he had engaged in newspaper work, but kept up his interest in turf matters and for the last ten years presided over the press gallery at the I.atonia track. He was horn at Walton. Ky.. fiftv-fotir years ago. A. J. Joyner. the Whitney and Belmont trainer in Kngland, in a recent interview stated that It was Hie traveling that was the real trouble with the American horses. The English tracks are not so flat or easy as the American. Mr. Joyner said he had already learned that he would have to give his horses more work here than they got at home. So far as arranged, the first actual racing to bo seen in the vicinity of New York will be a steeple-ehase meeting of one day at Codarhurst. L. I., on April 21. when the Rockaway Hunting Club will hold its animal hunter and pony races. One week later the Meadow Brook Steeplechase Association will hold a meeting of one day at the Belmont Park rannlnal. at which the chief race will tie for the Hunt Cup. a challenge event, at four miles over a post and rail course. Anion:. the entries to the 2. .".no Chester Cup to be run at Chester. England, oa May o. is H. P. Whitneys Dinna Ken. winner of the Lawrence Realization two years ago. Dinna Ken is a stayer, as all his races showed. The distance of the Chester Cup is two and a quarter miles. A. J. Joyner. who trains Dinna Ken. trained David Garrick in this country before the colt was sent abroad, where he won the Chester Cup of 1901. when he carried 122 pounds ami defeated fifteen others. Ten racing men. all friends of the late John H. Bradford, of the Coney Island Jockey Club, were guests of William Pollock, of Cleveland. Mondav night at the Waldorf-Astoria. They sat at a table in the corner of the grill room, where for many .--ars the late Mr. Bradford entertained his friends. The memory of the deceased official was drank in Slleace. The guests included Messrs. P. J. Dwver. Captain Fleming. A. Daingerfield. James Butler". J S. McDonald. Henry C. Davis. M. Corbett. Sim Walton aud Schuyler L. Parsons.
