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NOTES OF THE TURF. J. E. Seagrams good mare. Bouquet, is reported critically sick at Woodbine. Jockey W. Kelly, who was suspended at Seattle last year, has boon reinstated and Is riding at the Victoria meeting. Dr. H. C. Bossier is negotiating with John J. Hylanil for Lasata. with the idea of adding him to the collection of thoroughbreds be is about to ship to India. The liookmakers who are laying odds at the Victoria meeting include W. R. Engstrom. Martin and Co.. Leslie Belt. Joe Harlan. J. R. Smith. W. P. Magrane and John Glenn. Anyone having knowledge of the present or recent location of former jockey Forrest B. Jones, formerly of EI wood, Indiana, will confer a favor on relatives of the boy by sending information thereof to Dally Racing Form. Silas Veitch. John J. Hylanil. Thomas E. Mannix. H. S. Page and T. J. Ilea ley will make shipments of horses from New York to Brookline. Mass.. Saturday, for the coming meeting at the Boston suburb. Trainer Henley will send the old gelding. Dolly Spanker. to compete in races the conditions of which call for gentlemen riders. Turncoat, the Voter gelding from the Keene stable, whoso refusal to break with the rest of his field was an unsatisfactory feature of the recent running of the Broadway Stakes at iraveseml. is seemingly addicted to natural cussedness. It takes an hours hard work to get him in the humor to gallop mornings, and after breaking he will not ruu straight. He tries to bear out on the turns. John N. Camden, president of the Kentueky Association, has returned to Kentucky from a brief visit to New York, where his horses are racing under the management of William II. Lewis. He has arranged to have Miami gelded next fall, with the idea that his conversion may result in an improvement in his racing form. Mr. Camden does not consider the horse as of sufficient size for use as a sire. He will make another pilgrimage east in a few weeks.