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NOTES OF THE TURF. Colonel Alex Labold of Cincinnati Is a recent arrival at Yonkers. Spooner has been suffering with a bad knee, but Is now much improved. Charles Churchill of Kentucky is n guest of Slatt J. Winn nt Empire City. R. F. Carman will ship his stable to Saratoga at the close of the Yonkers meeting. August Belmonts Field Slouse probably will next be seen under colors in the Alabama Stakes at Saratoga. Harrv Brolaski writes from the City of Slextco that the proposed race track at TIa Juana will be built. The two-vear-old filly Slay Florence is named for the wife of William L. Powers, of the Fasig-Tipton Company. Running- races at night having proved a failure, the management of the fair at Springfield. 111., have added two races for- thoroughbreds to the afternoon program. Among the exhibits at a siwrting show in England is a cork skull, cap worn, by an Australian steeple-chase jockey in a race, and which lie says saved his life when ho was thrown in a race and fell on his head. As H. J. Srorris. one of the stewards at Empire Citv, Is temporarily S. S. Howlands substitute as representative of August Belmonts racing interests, he does not net as steward -when any of Sir. Belmonts horses are running. Colonel Austin, the property of N. Crippen of Waco, and Knight of the East, belonging to W. II. Schwartz, were so badly burned In the fire at Tulsa race track that their usefulness for racing purposes has probably been destroyed. The monetary loss to the Tulsa Fair Association amounts to about 1909.sh,000. Shamrock, which set so fast an early pace in the second race at Yonkers Tuesday, was once a stable companion to Slay Florence, the winner. At the weeding out sale of II. P. Whitneys stable not long ago Shamrock was sold for 5 to II. W. Warner, her present owner. She Is a half-sister to Brother Jonathan and is by Irish Lad. Import, a horse that raced well in California in the colors of F. W. Healey, is beating everything in sight in western .Canada this summer in races over a considerable distance of ground. Preen, last seasons champion sprinter in that locality, has had his colors lowered by Beaver Dam Lad. a bay colt by Eagle Plume Florida,, owned by N. E. Slc-Adie, of Golden, B. C. John Greener, the owner of Olambala. is a substantial citizen of Nashville, Tenn. Sir. Greener was at .one time the proprietor- of a big drug business in Nashville: also of the Duncan Hotel. He has long been Identified with horse racing, as breeder, promoter of racing enterprises and campaigner of race horses. He will be remembered as the man who took Oiseau east in 1904, and sold him to James B. Brady for 0,000. A visitor at Empire City track this week was Slaster John A. Slorris of Throggs Neck. This voting man Is a grandson of the late John A. Slorris, the builder of Slorris Park, and one of the famous racing men of the, country in the closing decades or the last century. He is a son of Alfred Henner Slorris. John .Morris Is just old enough to begin to take an active interest in the sport to which his grandfather devoted much time and money. Despite the great admiration expressed In some quarters over the method of carrying on racing details on English courses., there occurred recently at Salisbury an incident which caused much comment. Long after the horses which had run in a race were taken off the course the stewards decided to disqualify the -winner. The horse to which the race was awarded had been taken away from the course altogether. It was a selling race and he could not be offered for sale that day. John T. Ireland hails from Bourbon County, Kentucky. He has beeli a trainer and developer of horses for many years. He developed Hlndoocraft. long the holder of the American record for one mile and five-tiighths; -Newton, a Latonia Derby winner; and Douatello, winner of a Derby at St. Paul when racing- flourished in Minnesota. Mr. Ireland Is a brother-in-law of Robert L. Thomas, and he it was who engineered the famous Thomas coup on Wexford at Gravesend three Seasons back, which netted its beneficiaries something like 0,000.
