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NOTES OF THE TURF. The stallion Carry Herrmann is now located in Manitoba. • K. Spenee, to whom jockey Frank Cole Is uml.-r •ontract, also developed jockeys Auhuchoii and E. Martin. Fneles training is proceeding satisfactorily and s C. llil. In Hi hopes to have him ready for racing .it Saratoga. John Ilyncs announces that lie purchased the .earling brother to Highball for his own account mil u..t for 1 poll] K. Kahn. Thomas Hitchcock. Jr.. has leased Meilowinint to i. R. Tompkins, and it is said that Mr. Tompkins nay take the horse to France. Billing the present week Ceorge W. Berry will m11 the A. B. Siueckels two-year olds that he ha.s icen racing on the New York tracks. Trainer John Powers, who has returned to Xew Vork with Jack Atkin and Sager. savs that he will lot go back to Canada with his charges again rah reason. Charles Hughes, trainer for II. M. Ziegler, of Cincinnati, has s..hl Ashwell to C.-orge Odoin. Aall veil is a three-year-old by Alloway— Melton Mow- ray . Eastern horsemen are making a collection Bar he family t Ernest IIupiw. the steeplechase rider vho was recently killed through the falling af Cold iate iu a race. Cliff Hammon. trainer of K. R. Bradleys stable. •e|K»rts that forty-live mares wen- mated this season vith Canard, the California stallion now standing it Idle Hour Farm. His service fee is 50. Xugent Bros., of St. Louis, who have ! oen out of racing since they sold Arrow Swift and other horses ast year, are picking up some horses with which Io .•.engage iu the s|»ort the coming fall or winter. J. B. Respess has taken up the imported horse Marathon, and that English-bred performer is now taking his regular morning gallops with the ..tin horses in Respess horn at Latonia, after a brief season iu the stud. Ethel Pace, the dam of Housemaid, winner of the , Breeders Futuritv at Lexington and the Fashioa Stakes at Belmont Park, has a suckling sister t the good two year ..Id at the farm of Howard Bai-neby near Lexington. Ky. Jockey Loft us. who has ridden several promisiu.: races at Latonia. is a Chicago lioy. and his parents -till reside here. He can ride at as low as M •oiinds. J. M. Cootie has a contract on his services .vhich will not expire until Jan. 1. BBSS, Notwithstanding Coventor Crays record break in, •erformance of live-eighths in 50 at Latonia reccni y. his traimr. apt. J. T. Williams, thinks that •he colt is not yet at his best. After the l.itonii nceting ends Captain Williams will take the colt o Saratoga to till his engagements iu eastern stake-. A. M. Orpen of the Mctro|M.litan Racing Ass.iei-itlon lias made formal application to the Canadian lacing Assoeiati.ms for a sanction for the ...mil-, ueeting al Biiffcrin Park. Toronto. Pending th • .utcoine Joseph Murphy has given no answer lo the nvilatiou to preside in the stand at the proposed .ueeting. Matt J. Winn, manager of the Empire City track, las received assurance that these horses will atari n the Brighton Handicap, one mile ami a quarter. to be run at Yoiikers next month: Fitz llerl»..t, iallot. King James. Maskette. Priscilliau. Olamhal.i. Waldo, Fashion Plate. Fauntleroy and Prince Bn •erial. Colonel Winn sa.vs that every lirst-elas lorse in training will be seen in stake events at the Westchester course. S. C. Hildreth. who bought no yearlings in 19tt». lias already purchased several this season and aaab-il.lv will buy more. Mr. Hildreth is greatly pleased ■vith his Cunanl Tower of Candles colt, a brother to Turret, that he Itougbt a lew days ago. He spent half an hour with the sturdy youngster after ic had acquired him. and at the conclusion of his nspcctioii predicted that he would make a tlrsl -class race horse.
