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j . ; i ; j I N0TES OF THE TURF. Gene Lntz will ship Tackle and other horses from Latonla 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 Gravesend 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 OIT, 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 Mclntvre. who struck jockey J. Reid after the running of the filial race at Fort Erie Wednesday, lias been suspended for the remainder of the Fort Erie meeting. The horses of Paul J. Rainey will be at once shipped rrom New York to Saratoga. Trainer Ed-Ward Peters has the speedy De Slund 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 tlie 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 ;o,tHXMMX project that is to eventually supply New York City with water. Mr. Smith is planning to see Waldo run in the Saratoga Special. Tlie excuse offered for tlie failure of Maltbie to run at Sheepshead Bay Thursday to the promise of his earlier form was that be does not care for weight, in spite of his splendid size aud muscular development. It is also alleged that he is a sulker and will not extend himself when he gets a bump ; or Ineets with interference. While the 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 aud after the big race the rubbers anil exercise lads did much good-natured bantering, but the IUIdreth gang carried the day. Their en-j thuslasin was genuine when the great son of Ethel-; bert moved by his opponents with a stride which meant certain victory.
