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NOTES OF THE TURF. The good three-year old. Milton B.. has l con si. k at Lexington since his last start. Kavinoml Belmont is taking an active interest iu the racing affairs of his father. August Belmout. Whin, a recent iuvenile winner at Aqueduct, is a half sister to the Brooklyn Derby winner. Whiirh-r. Eugene Lutz lias moved the string of horses he raced at Tampa. Fla.. from Douglas Iark over to Churchill Downs. George C. Bennetts Dishabille has foaled a chest-nut till v by Malta Santa, and has been Ix-.ked to St. Savin this season. John H. Sheelian, one of the consistent hors.- af the current Oakland meeting, went wrong recently and has been tired. Fair Lillian, a two year-old belonging to Ho.u.t Selhv. that died recentlv. was insured for *i..iso shortly before her death. The coughing epidemic with which some of the horses at Churchill Downs have been afflicted has invaded the stable ..r J. T. Ireland. Dertha. the dam of Ocean Queen, has htca mated with Nasturtium this season. She has a suckling foal by St. Avoni.ns at her side. Contrast, a three vear-obl chestnut colt, fell and broke a leg at Hempstead. L. I., last week. The accident necessitated his destruction. Harry Shannon, who raced a small string of horses in the south last winter, died Sunday at the home of hi- parents in Lexington, aged twenty -eight. The Vancouver and Victoria meetings scheduled for the present month have been postponed out of reapeet to the memory of the late King Eduard. Before going east from Ixuisville F. A. Forsythe Khlpped the two year ..Ids Corsair. Aleppo, Mauiiella and Pariah to Bhaaatahmhtae Stock Farm to fie turned out iiiifil fall. E. B. Bradley is re|xirted to have refused au 1 ffer of 5.ooo for the two-year-olds. Bell Horse and Bobby Rover. The former is a heather hi John W. Schorrs Penn. by Cunard — Eonic. Tie American jockev. D. Maher. now at flic t..p of the riding tree in England, was bora October 2*.i. 1881. His lit -1 in. . mil iu England was in the Rury Plate at Manchester. September 21. MBS. W. K. Van.lerbills Ripolin won the Prix Flying Fox of 88.000, distance a mil and a halt, at Saim lou 1 in Fr.in.e yeeterday and Frank J. Coiihls .Instinieii won 1 lie Prix du Printemps of 000 at a mile and seven-eighths. A. Vocglcr. the Cincinnati man who claims ownership of W. A. Leach and other horses trained by John Marklein pilar to his recent suspension, will apply to the Kentucky State Racing Commission tor tin- reinstatement of the horses in question at its next meeting. Mold comes from Mexico that L. Rluiu pun based the eiil ire shipment of four carloads of ihorough-breds sent to that country from Kentucky earlier in the vear. There is now a demand in Mexico f..r a better class of mares than those previously shipped there from the luited States.
