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NOTES OF THE TURF. "Snapper" Oarrison has gone into vaudeville. .lames Hewitt has reached New York from the south with Iulka ami other horses. Fred Conk has put in an appearance at Churchill Downs, after having spent the iuteriiu since the elose of the Jacksonville meeting at his breeding farm. Jupiter Joe is reported to have again gone lame at Churchill Downs. He was away from the races the better part of last year on account of a similar altlictioti. Kimball Patterson, who had a disagreement witli James McMamis that resulted in the engagement of II. A. Biauchi to train the Mi-Mantis horses at Belmont lark. will continue to train for T. C. Clay a in! hiius.-lf. William Keating has arrived at Oravesend with a string of four horses. Keating was in the south during the winter just ended and lie also took part with his stable in the Maryland Jockey Club"s meeting at Iimlico. The Sclilosser bill, dtawn to relieve the racing as-so -bilious ot New York slate of the five per cent, tax on gross receipts that was a feature of the IVny-Oray law. has gone to Oovernor Hughes for approval after unanimous passage in both branches of the New York legislature. A change has been made in the Belmont Park program and the Meadow Brook Hunters Steeplechase, which was carded to be run Friday. Ma 21. will be run Saturday. May 2S. making it a seven-race program on that day. To fill in the gap made in the Friday card, there has been substituted a selling race at three-quarters of a mile, which will be run as the fifth race.
