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NOTES OF THE TURF. Rose Queen and the remainder of the Koenigsberg-Cahill string will he campaigned at Saratoga. John G. Cavauagh will run his usual special train for racegoers from New York to Saratoga next Sunday. Harry Payne Whitney stands fourteenth on the list of winning owners in England, with 3,500 to his credit. Brighton Beach race track lias been transformed Into a motordrome, and autdmobile racing will begin there next Friday. R. F. Carman has bought the two-year-old bay filly. Flyiug Footsteps, by Ben Strome Flying Gold Dust, from Woodford Clay, Peter Wimmer intends to spend August at the Long Island tracks, breaking and training the- yearlings he bought at the recent sales. William Gersts good colt Donau has been enrolled on the schooling list at Empire City as a result of his antics at the post in the Wakefield Stakes. Jockey "Skeets" Garner, who has just been licensed by the Jockey Club, is seeking an engagement with some eastern stable for the Saratoga meeting. Robert H. Cosgrove, secretary-manager of the Spokane Interstate Fair, was at Butte recently seeking horses for the meeting to be held at Spokane. September 20-25. Frank Purcell, the Griffin colt that won at long odds at Empire City last week, cost Joseph Marrouo 50 at Baltimore. Marroue bought the youngster at a job-lot auction sale. Former plunger .toe Ycager. who is said to be once more enjoying a season of prosperity, will proceed to New York at the close of the Fort Erie meeting, at which he has been successfully operating. Some of the less important stables racing at Empire City will be shipped to Windsor at the close of the Yonkers meeting, rather than to Saratoga, where the class of the horses engaged iu the racing bids fair to be exceptionally high. Bayardo, considered by many the best three-year-old in training on the English turf, continued, his winning career by an easy victory over Valens aud Perola In the Duchess of York Stakes at Hurst Park Saturday. He acted badly on his way to the post. Three of the horses that Barney Schreiher shipped to Victoria, B. C, have been sold. Joe Harlan bought Eddie Granoy. a promising two-year-old by Ossary May W., while Aristotle and Sainotta were purchased by M. Carlin, a wealthy Victorian who is going in for racing on quite an extensive scale. Schreiber has acquired V. H. Terrys contract oil jockey Coburn. John Schorr, who trains Monocle and others for R. A. Mandelbauin, Will leave his horses at the Sheepshead Bay track during the month of August. Trainer Schorr has been on the lookout for some serviceable material in the shape of ready made horses, but as owners are optimistic regarding the future of racing he has been unable to buy at reasonable figures.
