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I i NOTES OF THE TURF. Gene Lutz will ship Tackle and other horses from Latoula to Windsor. Richard F. Carman Intends to break and try his yearlings at Belmont Park. Nat Rav has arrived at Saratogas Horse Haven course with a string of jumpers. P. S. P. Randolphs horses will be transferred from Gravcscnd to the Empire City track today. King of .Mist was claimed from T. S. Childs by M. Hutchison at Fort Erie Friday for 00. King Cobalt was shipped at the close of the Hamilton meeting to Saratoga, where he is being freshened up for the big meeting at the Spa in August. Thevre On", Beckon and Secret Service of the Browiileigh Park Stable will be shipped from New York to Saratoga Springs in the course of a few days. Jockey Mclntyre. who struck jockey J. Reid after the running of the final race at Fort Erie Wednesday, has been suspended for the remainder of the Fort Erie meeting. The" horses of Paul J. Rainey will be at once snipped from New York to Saratoga. Trainer Edward Peters lias the speedy De Mund and the crosscountry horse, Sanctus, in capital condition. Captain Frederick W. Presgrave lias arranged for stabling for twenty-one of the Clyde, stables horses at Saratoga. The Clyde stable will be located on the part of the course known as millionaires row. Ringmaster Gene Elrod yesterday introduced an innovation in arranging the cashiers books in the Fort. Erie ring -when he placed theui in alphabetical order. The lucky ones had little trouble, as a result, in locating the cashiers. Charles L. Harrisons crack colt, Waldo, was named, In honor of J. Waldo Smith, who, as .chief engineer" of the Catskill Board of Water Supply, is directing the ;0.HK.CMX project that is to eventually supply New York City with water. Mr. Smith is planning to see Waldo run lu the Saratoga Special. The excuse offered for the failure of Maltble to run at Sheepshead Bay Thursday to the promise of bis earlier form was that he does not care for weight., in spite of his splendid size and muscular development It is also alleged that he is a sulker and will not extend himself when he gets a bump or meets with interference. While tlie running of the Advance Stakes was In progress at Sheepshead Bay Thursday, several hundred stable hands were lined up at the head of the stretch, taking an unusual Interest in the event The field of notable horses, Fitz Herbert. Hilarious and Fayette, stable within a stones throw of each other. Before and after the big race the rubbers anil exercise lads did much good-natured bantering, but the Hlldreth gang carried the day. Their en thuslasm was genuine when the great son of Etliel-; bert moved by his opponents with a stride which meant certain victory.
