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NOTES OF THE TURF. Fred Tata] has decided that liis bay, Ir-d. who lias ilonc a little race riding, shall studv law and forsake the horses. Roswoll Yorke. one of V. C. Dalys apprentices, has been engaged by M. Doolcy to ride for him on the Canadian circuit. There will be live tan ef running races at Chat tanoi gn. Tcnn.. in connection with the Chattanooga Exposition, beginning May 25. Jockey Nieol is sufloring from an attack of main i.i. which baa invented him from riding at the Iinilici meeting the last few days. Jockeys V. Cowers and C 1 1. Shilling, lioth of whom are now riding at Louisville, were granted licenses by the Jockey Club yesterday. Jockey Ziegler was refuse,! n l -mission to accept any more mounts at the Fort Worth nieeling on account of being in bad standing with the Pal Ml Jockey Club. By a vote of M to 4. the Florida state senate Friday refused to indefinitely postpone the Sloan ant i race Hack belting bill and pas-ed it from second In third reading. During the first week of the Toronto meeting Mrs. L. Livingston will dispose of a number of thoroughbred ye.i:-ling . two year olds and older liorses coining from her Rancocas Btajd farm in New Jersey. T. C. McDowell, the Lexington turfman, has a good many young horses in his barn at Churchill Downs, and if the; dime up to ti is expectations, lie will ship them east after the present nieeling. Colonel Boh has b. come si.cii a bad actor at the post thai Bd Aivey has dec, led to have him gelded. Colonel Bob is a speedy sprinter, but of late has been unmanageable and refuses to break witli his field. Flank Weir had old Roseben out at Slieepshead Bar Friday and the big sprinter looked exceedingly well. IK- was only galloped, but all through his airing lie was trying to get away from the stable boy Who had Ihe mount. J. E. Seagrams beautiful filly-. Jane Shore, by Per-shore —Martyrdom, was not Prong, it down from Waterloo, Oat. She is Intended for next years Plate, and if it were decided on looks she would pretty nearly have it now. — Toronto Globe. A three-day meeting h. s bi en announced by the Virginia Racing and Horse Show Association at the Virginia State Fair Grounds. May 15, 17 and 18. The program call- for two steeplechases and races on the Hat every day. with purses of 00. The biggest two-rear-old at the Woodbine track of Toronto, is George C. Taylors Nasturtium coll. Kasarian. a tremendous chunk oa short tegs, but full of substance all over. He weighed 1.151 pounds when but a few days over two years in actual age. China i- gaOlM SB -ct us an example in the matter of the proriatnn of remounts for military purposes. which Other governments will probably follow. Any wav. it is reported that the Chinese are setting abnol founding a state stud in Mongolia for the supply ol iniiiy horses. TI • Ruing Calendar displays the conditions of the Grand Prix de Paris or 1911. which closes September li ii -N t :,nd is to hare a value of 300.000 francs, approximately 10,000, guaranteed. It is. as usual, at one and three-quarter miles, tor entire colts and lillies foaled in UMsf. of all breeds and all countries. The Lomlon Sportsman, in discits-iug Tod Sloans chances ror an English riding Ucensi . which be does not appear to have applied for. says: Sloan was warned off la France, though only for the technical offense t riding ■ lilK on a gallop which was Mi open, i lie Ei.giish stewards, then-lore, are not in a position to give him a Jockeys license, even it Hoy wished to do so. until the French authorities bare made the first move."
