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NOTES OF THE TURF. The stable of R. L. Thomas, en route from California, is expected at Toronto this week. Last Saturday at the Woodbine track C. Millars Kings Plate candidate. Better Half, worked a mile in 1:4S and one and one-quarter miles In 2:19? under a strong pull at the finish. Detective, the three-year-old son of Meddler and Admiration, has been fold by Matt Allen to Charles Boyle, the Canadian turfman. The colt will go to Canada for the racing there this season. Several imiiortant cases that have a bearing on tin- racing situation in New York state are now under consideration by the Court of Appeals and the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, and decisions are looked for in the near future. It is said that the stock of the Maryland Jockey Club is nearly all in the hands of three interests — W. M. Manly. Thomas Clyde and the Walden estate. The club liases the track and could have bought it for 9,000, but let slip a great opiiortunity. Lord Roseberys great mare. Seabreeze, died at Epsom, Eug.. April 22. in giving birth to a colt by Cicero. Seabreeze, in her day. won the Oaks. St. Legor. Coronation Stakes, Lancashire Plate and many other stakes. She was a chestnut, foaled in 1885. by Isonomy — St. Marguerite. It is common gossip in the east that James R. Kcene is disappointed at the non-success of his horses in Eagland. The climax was reached, it is said, when Helmet was unplaced in a race in which lie was conceding only a small amount of weight to another American horse which in this country was not within twenty imunds of Helmet.
