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NOTES OF THE TURF. Tommy Burns is now riding at 105 pounds. Douglas Park, at Louisville, was devoted to automobile racing yestefday. It is said that James B. Keenes Maskette is not as sound us she might bo. A special race, calculated to bring Olambala and Kinds Daughter together, will be run at Latonia next Tuesday. Tally Coulters Hoffman, the three-year-old half-brother to Irish Lad. Vuleaiu and Zanone, has de eloped into a good horse. .I.riin F,. Madden is reported to have refused offers of iM.olto for Big Stick and ,500 for Lad.v Bedford, made by George Odom. Eddie Kelly, formerly connected with liookmakcr Joe Harlan, a well known western layer, is reported to Ik- at deaths door in Colorado. "Lucky" Jack McGinuis won Shannon out In the race in which Ibe Ogden colt scored immediately following his purchase from John E. Madden. Paul Raineys King Castle, winner of the Kensington Steeplechase, is regarded as one of the likeliest jumpers in training in the east. He lias improved wonderfully in looks, fences cleanly and swiftly and manages weight admirably. locks* Taplin reported to H. G. Bedwell that Fireball tried to run out in the race in which he was fecayily backed at Latonia Tuesday, a failing that he had never before exhibited. Fireball is by-no means the reliable proposition be once was. G.-orgo J. Longs Arcite is not nearly as nervous a horse this season as hitherto and Peter Coyne, trainer of tke Bashford Manor stable, looks for him to race more in accordance with the promise of his early form than during the past two seasons. Mr. Long is expected to make a trip east to sec some of his horses run at Gravescnd and Sbeepsbead Bay. Brigand, the American thoroughbred horse that was the champion under saddle at the Madison Jar-den show of 1007, captured tirst honors in the covert hack class at the London horse show now in progress. He is owned by Walter Winans. Brigand is a symmetrical eh-stnut and was bred bv James Galway. of New York. He ran and won scleral races lie fore he was shown as a saddle horse.
