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NOTES OF THE TURF. Aliout 500 horses are quartered at Butte, virtually all ready for racing. Hugh McCarren will ship Camel and otjiers of his horses from Latonia to Paducali. Jockey Butwell was sharply criticised by the easterners for the ride that lie gave St. Joseph Sat urday. Win. II. Lyon was destroyed in consequence of having broken a leg while racing at a hunt club meeting at Islip, N. 1., Saturday. Milton Henry, the American jockey, attached to M. Calmanns stable at Chantlllv. in France, broke his right collarbone at Amiens Saturday. Harry Morrisey, formerly assistant to starter Mars Cassidy. did the starting at a hunt club meeting at Islip, N. 1., Saturday and yesterday. The impression grows that Dalmatian may be a colt of high class, and quite likely to train on and go a distance, just as Ethelbert. his sire. did. Walter Miller Is to ride in England as a free lance under the management of Thomas McCreerv, who made his engagements in California last winter. The bay colt bv Fatherless Lizzie II.. a brother to Red River, which was among the Ellerslie Stud yearlings scheduled to be sold last week, died on the way to the sales ring. A meeting In which some of the horses that have been racing at Oklahoma "City will participate, opened yesterday at McAIester. Okla. . The officials Include A. C. McCafferty. presiding judge. AV. F. Johnstone, secretary, and C. D. Stevens, starter. James R. Keene advised his friends In the clubhouse not to back Sweep in the Great Trial Stakes at Sheepshead Bay Saturday. He said the colt had not recently worked encouragingly, aud the penalty of eight pounds, which he had to take up. was likely to affect his chances.
