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NOTES OF THE TURF. Eugene I.utz is on the way to Churchill Downs from Ienaiola with his horse-. Charles Carrolls Night Rider won the Middlesex Plate at Hani Park in England Saturday. J. E. Wiileiiers Ptropolis III. ran third in the Prix lies Peitplears at St. Cloud in France jestei-da.v . Fitz Barber! will probably start in the Metro| oli-tau Handicap at Belmont Park for the first time this rear. BflsaU the running of tie Greenfield Stakes at Aqueduct Friday Fred T. Wood refused an offer of U~.. tNi for Frank Mullens. Cforac Ruse, well known to the racing public as u hading bookmaker in the old betting rings, is a mere spectator at Aqueduct these days. la-tern horsemen who have seen Walter B. Jen-naana Mar Blue gallop predict that he will hold his own in the handicap division this season. II. ;. Ited we II and Thomas McCreery were at Lcx-ington yesterday, having made a flying trip from 1 New York. Mr Rcdwell will return east today. W. Cole, an exercise boy in the employ of William 1 Gerst. was seriously injured at Churchill Downs I Sunday by the stumbling of a horse he was riding. Matt Feakes will- ship the stable that Mrs. L. A. | : Livingston will race this season to Toronto this week. In the lot will be the three-year-old fillies Amelia Jenks and Sotemia. Old-timers declare that the enthusiasm displayed over racing at Lexington this spring has been un-equaled in Kentucky for twenty years or more and hail the conditions as indicating that the sport lias once more come back to its own. Live Wire started in two races for ponies afr the Rockaway Hunt Clubs meeting at Cedarliurst. L. I.. Saturday and won them both. One of the races was at a quarter of a mile and the other at a half. Rooger Red. recently purchased by Allan Pinkcrton, also won a half-mile race for ponies. W. K. Vanderbilts horses continue to do well on the French tracks. Oversight won the Biennial Stakes of ifo.OdO. at a mile and seven eighths, over the Longchamps course Sunday. His Seasick ran second in the Prix Riniou at Maisons Latlitte Saturday and Raralxissii ran third in the Prix de Vernon. Yesterday Defender carried the Vanderbilt colors to victory in the irix de la Passerale, at a mile and four and a half furlongs. There are | vrsistent reports that the Shecpsho.id Bay and Gravosetid meetings may be run off at Belmont Iark in order to escape the possibility of a recurrence of the petty persecution that marked last years meetings at "those tracks. It is also iu-timated that the New York season may tie terminated about November 1 in order to aliow Pimlieo tci run without opposition from November 1 to Mart mlier 10. If this plan materializes Jamestown probably will follow with a meeting, to run until November 3D.
