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NOTES OF THE TURFi Miss Crawford will be retired to the stud noxt spring. . W. E. Applegate, Jr.. has just put in an appearance at Salt Lake City. , Lady Martha, which broke down last fall, was mated with Dick Welles last spring. G. II. Keene has arrived at the Salt Lake track with Logistiila, Exchequer and Grahaine. Amos Turney will make use of jockey Davenports services during the remainder of the fall. W. C. Father Bill Daly will campaign several of his horses on the Florida tracks the coming winter. The main track at Belmont Park has been given a cushion of one and oue-nuarter inches in depth this fall. A smart appearing chestnut filly by Hastings in R. F. Carmans string at Belmont Park has shown a trial of a quarter in 23J. Trainer Nate Byer has shipped several horses, the property of Mr. Kerr, to Berwyn, Pa., for tho Chesterhrook Hunt meeting. Fountain Square. J. B. Respess two-year-old colt by Dick Welles Barbara M., has been punch fired for osselets that developed after a phenomenally fast trial at Saratoga. The eighteen yearlings purchased by R. T. Wilson, Jr.. from John E. Madden, have been transferred from Saratoga to Belmont Tark, where trainer Tom Heaiey will try them out. The two-year-old brown filly bv Kilmarnock Loonorc has been named Dorothy K. and the two-year-old light bay gelding by Toddington Pink has been registered Tom Kerr. W. M. Murray, manager of the Ogden Racing Association, announces that a meeting of ten days or more duration at Ogden will immediately follow the closing of the Salt Lake City meeting October 29. O. L. Richards, who raced Cbarcntns and several other good racers, is pleased with the bay filly by Matchless that he purchased at the recent yearling sales. Trainer James McLaughlin is handling the youngster. John Bodeii, presiding judge at Delorimier Park, Montreal, has suspended jockey Austin and has ordered the entries of W. E. Nelson refused on account of a bad showing made by Marniorean ia a recent start. Talk of a match race between Masketto and Fits! Herbert for a purse of ,000, to be hung up by the Westchester Racing Association, to lie ran during the present Belmont Park meeting, is in circulation iu the east. John A. Drake has returned from France and will shortly make a trip to Kentucky to inspect the yearlings by Ort Wells that P. T. Chinn is developing for him. It is thought his failure to sell the. jiveniles presages his return to racing. The twelve-3-ear-old mare. Larkspur, after several seasons of retirement in the stud, during which she dropped several foals that failed to reach maturity, is again in training at Churchill Downs. She won the Montgomery Handicap iu 1901 as a four-year-old. Charles Rowe has left New York for Saratoga, where he has a dozen horses belonging to Otto Stifel of St. Louis in training. The horses in the Rowe string were bred at Barney Schreibers Woodlands Stud m Missouri, and the present intention is to campaign them at one of the winter meetings. Captain J. W. May, who saw Aristldes win tho first Kentucky Derby in 1875. and who has never missed n meeting at Louisville since. Is on hand as usual this fall. He has become a great player ot show horses in late years and frequently hits In this way upon some long shot. Captain Alay is tho father of trainer "Bull" May. who brought to the races Highball. Yankee Consul, De Mund and others of note.
