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NOTES OF THE TURF. Arcite has only one eye. Carroll Reitl proposes to summer his string at Churchill Downs. J. W. Rogers is to open a public training stable at Churchill Downs. F. T. Healey is making jockey Keoghs engagements at Empire City. Frank Bespeaa will remain in the west to break the J. B. Res|KSs yearlings. While John Madden is at Saratoga. Jule Garson will handle a bunch of platers for him at Empire City. Ed Trotter will ship Eyebright to Douglas Park. Louisville, for the summer, as he thinks the horse is in need of a rest. Manager John Hachineister lias placed an order far 100.000 souvenir i ostal cards carrying twelve rtewa of the lataala track. W. F. Schultes horses have been transferred to F.mpire City track. King olympian, one of the string, is troubled with a weak middle tendon. Wing ling, winner of the Kentucky Oaks of 1907. kaa fouled a colt by Ogden and has been mated with i lie same stallion. She is owned by J. S. Hawkins. Iling.iani, a recent starter nt Empire Citv, was Highly tried as u yeurling ut Belmont Park. but. like many two-yeur-olds, fuiled to live up to eurly promises. The Empire City track Is considerably deeper close to the Inner rail this season thaa elsewhere. Horses that have been so unfortunate as to get inside poalttBaa have been at a disadvantage. John Morris of Woodlmrn Farm is in the east to attend the Empire City races. In his opinion Peter Pan is the best-looking stallion in Kentucky. He has developed into a gigantic horse aud is highly regarded at Custleton Stud. Capt. J. Breckenridge Viley visited Latonia recently and reported that the yearlings at Stonewall Irani are the best looking lot he ever raised. Inless he rhaafea his mind he will bare the-ni broken and raced ill his colors in 1911. The four yearlings which cost J. W. Mav ,800 it the recent sales of the Kasig-Tipton Company were purchased for Louis Docrhofcr. a Louisville sportsman with an ample bank account Bad a a hail Mae appetite for racing. Mr. May acquired some of the likeliest-looking youngsters offered at the Sheepshead Bay paddocks. Martin Nuthanson will depart from Chicago on Wednesday next for Butte, .Mont., where he is to officiate as presiding judge and racing secretarv dur lag the thirty-days meeting of the Butte Jockey Club. July 23-Aagaat 27. From Butte Mr. Nathanson will go to Anaconda for a tblrtff a dajri meeting at that place. The prospects for a successful meeting at Butte are excetleat, Henry Craven is reported to have refused an offer of .ooO for Hie Welkin, which of late has been displaying excellent form through the field. He purchased the mure for 50 ut Pimlico the past spring. Craraa is a negro trainer who fonaerty was in the employ of the late Oil. Bobert Neville. When the latter died he detenu ined to hay The Welkin and was prenared to invest his entire savings of 10 if necessary to become her owner. Henry Ilartwig and Ed KMaaaa have secured the booking privileges for various lair meetings in Indiana and Kentucky. A meeting ut North Vernon, lad., will liegin July 27 and continue to My 29, inclusive. There will be trotting, pucing and running races each day. Following North Vernon will come the meeting of the Newport Driving and Fair Association at Fort Thomas. Ky., August 9 to 13. Er-langer and Carthage will have live-days meetings. James Kverman plans to take T. M. Oreen and other horses owned by D. N. Prewitt to Douglas Park and rest them iintil fall. Mr. Prewitt will ship to trainer Evernian at Douglas Park u yeurling half-brother to T. M. Oreen. The veteran Danville turfman thinks this youngster the best foal Evergreen has ever dropped. He is a son of J. R. Keenes Disguise and is well engaged next season as a two-vear-old and is also an eligible to the Kentnckv Derby of M12
