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, : NOTES OF THE TURF. Rocky OBrien is not a gaad work horse. Richard T. Wilson. Jr.s Onager stands straight on his pasterns. Banger Mark is a half brother to Spooncr. Their dam. lTirtineer. is in France at the stud farm of Og.b-n Bishop. FauiiMeioy will be attuned ffaaj New York to Baltimore to run in the Preukness stakes next Saturday. Arenaheh will make the nip with him. Gwyn Tompkins fears that Jimmy Lane will not be sole to race again this year, as a result of the injury he sustained in a mishap at Iimlico Ihis weak. II. W". Coble, at one lime foreman for Thomas J. Healey and in utter years a trainer on Russian irses, is handling Dorchester and Fort Worth at Iimlico. Foils, w inner of the Derby at Jacksonville, has Bat impressed tl ssterners. lie is described as -light, hss. and washy." Henry McDuuiel sas he is anything but a rugged bare*. It develops that GretM Green was badly enj about the bgs during the running of the nieens Chanty Handicap. Ihe Injuries are sanVieaily serious to keep him from ra. ing for some while. Jockey Mangrave, who has been with the John W. Schorr stable sll whiter, has received instructions to report to the -table of his contract rmalsTii. Joseph F. Seagram, at Toronto. May I. Americas dri. daughter of the reeentlv ieennaal stallion. Amerieiis. won the Great Surrey Handicap ai Epsom on April Pi. carrying I.i; poaads and de-resting some of the best sprinters in Fngland. George Odoins fist F.en Brush lillv. Trance his "ii on tin- ailing !M since her race last Satnrd.iv. wieu she was beaten by Mary ! .iis. Her whirlb-ne waa slights wrenched, but as -he responded to treatment, ftdoln expeets to Sgafo Bend her to the post before the close :,i Aaaedaet. I! was fop I!. J. M.nkenzie fhat •Canada Jack" Adkin purchased Hon Antonio and mountain S.piare 111 Ken tuck A recently. Th,. hors* have been added lo tinner Whytea string at Sheep-he. 1, 1 Bay and will go to Canada with the rest of the stable tor Hie aneatog at Toronto next month. The belting probb 111 is vexing the legishi u.rs of New- Vork slate, a bill now l-cTore the legislature being so stringent that even private belling is made" an offense. ii is not necessary for one to sm-pathixe wiih the practice of artlhai to be of the "! i11 « that the creation vt" new offenses iu tliis Waj is likely I,, do more harm than gm d. The trouble with some reformers is that they want lo attempt too mueh and thereby defeat their own ends. Sanity is invaluable in a moral reformer aud very often is scarce.— Victoria. B. C. Colonist.
