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NOTES OF THE TURF. Strenuous efforts are being made by R. L. Thomas to obtain a riding license for jockey Shilling in the east. John Yi. Madden lias purchased the three-year-old colt, Plate Glass, by Plaudit Eliza Belle, from W. J. Young. E. E. Sniatbers was among the crowd that saw Sweep win the Futurity at Sheepshead Bay Monday, and it. is intimated that he may again become interested in racing as an owner. .Tockev Mi McGee will go 16 Canada to ride when his suspension for disobedience at the post at Sheepshead Bay expires. The boy will be on the ground for the rest of the week. The latest odds bv cable on the St. Leger, to be run for Septemlier 8. at DonCaster. are: Bayardo-11 to 10: Minora. 3 to 1: Louviers. 7 to 1; Diamond Stud. 25 to 1: Mirador. 100 to 3. Sainposal, owned by Hicks and Hopper, and bred at Burner Scbrelbers Woodlands Farm, won the. an-. convex Derby at Vancouver, B. C. last Saturday. Ocean Queen was second and Workbox was third. Matt Byrnes and Stuart Hunter, both of whom are now at Buenos Ayres. Argentine Republic, have sold at satisfactory prices .a large consignment of thoroughbreds sent there several weeks ago by J. B. Haggin. Little A. Smith, the lad who rode Killlecrankie into third place at Sheepshead .Bay Monday, is a lKy of whom "Father Bill" Daly is exceedingly proud. Smith can ride at eighty-five pounds, and Daly expects to. made a real race rider of him. Two carloads of horses reached Hawthorne from Joliet yesterday. In the shipment were included I Gilpin. Gilvedear. Ben Short. Bitter Miss Point Lace. Port Royal and Ethleen. The Burns Handicap winner, Kercheval. is at the track. The American jockey. Shaw, lias taken the place . of Notter as rider for the Weinberg German stable, under trainer Walker. His chief recent mount was on Fervor, the crack German three-year-old. ami he was lioaten a neck by the English Jockey. Bullock, on Kaulireif. by Saraband Royal ink. I for the Krankfort-on-the-Maln Prize of ?;i.O00. August 1!. Fervor was conceding fourteen pounds to the Graditz Studs colt.
