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NOTES OF THE TTJRF. F. J. Bevan lias arrived at Oakland from Juarez with Lillian Ray. II. G. Bcdwells Knight Deck is temporarily ou the shelf in the east. Five thoroughbreds belonging to P. T. Chinn reached Aqueduct yesterday from Lexington, in charge of Charles Mertz. W. G. Yanke ft Co.s McGee colt. Big Claim, is regarded as one of the best juveniles in training at Churchill Downs. Eastern trainers are inclined to lay some of the blame for Ja-k Atkins failure in the Carter to the cuppy track conditions that prevail at Aqueduct this spring. John Whelden. of New York, has purchased th--Preakness Farm, near Patterson. N. J., consisting of seventy-five acres, formerly owned by the late James Oalway. The tickets in the new combination mutuels at Churchill Downs will sell for g£ The regular uiu-tuel tickets ou each race will be sold for , as usual. John W. Schorr told his Memphis friends that Gretna Oreen had scant chance to win the Carter Handicap and was a greatly surprised man whin the wires brought the news that his horse had won. At the Lingchamps race course in France Sunday William K. Vanderbilts Oversight won the Prix de la Join-here, and in the Prix de Guiche his Messidor III. ran second. At St. Cloud yesterday W. K. Vanderbilts Itefender and Eugene Fischofs Antloche finished third respectively in the Prix Fleury and the Prix Chausse. The racing officials at Aqueduct include C. J. Fitzgerald, presiding judge: C. H. Pettingill. associate judge: Chris Cornehlson. clerk of the scales: Mars Cassidv. starter: H. U. Homan. starting judge: F. RehlM-rgi-r. racing secretary: J. L. Hall, paddock and pairol judne: P. J. Dwycr. W. S. Vosburgh and Andrew Miller, stewards. The program book for the spring met ting of the Kentuekv Association at Lexington. April M to May 7. was distributed yesterday. The program, which was prepared by Racing Secretary W. H. Shelley. pro ides for six races on each of the seven days, Willi a feature every day. and carries a distribution of nearly ifJit.OOO in stakes and purses. With tin- duration of race meetings fixed at seven davs. it mav Ite expected that those of the Canadian Racing Ass.M-iations will all begin on Saturdays, in order to get in the two holiday afternoons. That will leave the first five days of each second wck blank. Tin- Windsor fall meeting will probably omit MM Saturdav iu order to close on Labor Day. — Toronto Olobe. S-u|terin tendon t James J. Orant of Oakland track was elected as one of the trustees of the city of Kniervville. in which the track is located, at the recent election. W. II. Christie, mayor of the city siii-e its ini-orporation in MM. was re-elected by the largest vole given to any candidate. Michael J. Haves, owner of Johnny Lyons and other horses, was oiic of the overwhelmingly defeated candidates that ran in opposition to Mayor Christie and his colleagues on a platform demanding a more open town. The Martindale Jockey Club is a splendid advertisement for tin- totalizator. The clubs headquarters are at Manoora. a town about eighty miles north of Adelaide, ami alxtut a dozen years ago the local p.-oph- organized a race meeting. Just at that time racing could hardly 1m- said to be prospering in the e itrv. but witli the assistance of tin- totalizator the club has gone ahead by leaps and bounds. The stake money has been increased at a splendid rate, and at the annual meeting on Wednesday of last week owners ran for 000 sovereigns. — South Australian Observer.
