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NOTES OF THE TURF. Matt Winn left Louisville yesterday for Lexing ton. to lie on hand for the opening of the meeting there today. ieorge J. I.oiigs Kentucky Derby colt. Cainpcoii. worked ■ mile in 1 :45 over the Churchill Downs course Thursday morning. Winteigi.-eu. J. B. Respess candidate for the Kentucky Derby, shows more speed every time he is led on the track for a work-out. Richard E. Marsh, King Edwards trainer, broke a small bone in one of his ankles by ■ fall from a train at Bedford. Eng.. some ten days ago. Eckersall will race no more. C. P. Fink has sold the horse to an Oakland business man for driving purposes and is out of the s| ort as an owner. Butte has decided to race thirty days beginning July 3. Fred Miilholland. of San Francisiii. will lie presiding lodge. F. S. Skinner, secretary and handieappcr aiid William Murray, starter. At the Auteuil course near Paris. Thursday, all the American starters were beaten. Thomas Hitcli-eeefc, Jr.s Etctral Royal failed to get I place in the Prix larches! and W. K. Vaudcrbilfs Herkimer was unplaced in the Prix Pepiniere. Word has lieeu received fi-om Richard Bauer that his read stater. Critic, reached Pimlico in good condition after his long iouruev from Los Angeles. He was sent along with the James Bodou horses, all making the trip without accident. Couiiniiiting upon W. K. Vanderhilfs cr-Kk colt. Negofol. the London Field says: "He is ■ son of Child wick he by St. Simon out of Plaisanteiiei. an-l bis ■him. Nebroiize, combines the blood S Robert the Devil. Hermit and Flageolet. Negofol has size and great length, combining power and sliced." Matt Allen has been assigned a stable on the boulevard side of the Jraveseud truck and will move over from his place on Coney Island road within o few days. Trainer Allen lias lx-cn using Cravesend for a training ground all spring, and securing I stable within the track will add considerably to his convenience. At the Pimlico track that fast horse. Red River, which would have won many races hut for intirui knees, is said to have worked six furlongs in 1 :15 recently. He is owned by William Garth, who tins also a last two-year sM called The Monk. Garth has engaged Mclntyrc formerly iu S. C. Hildreths employ, to ride for him.
