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NOTES OF THE TURF. W. 0. Scully has joined his stable at Saratoga. Jockey- J. Class, who was suspended at Empire City, has joined his employer, A. G. Blakeley, at 1-Saratoga. C. A. Crew has lKiught the steeplechaser Nat B., which changed hands at the Hendrle lisi ersal sale at Windsor last Saturday. Judge Joseph J. Burke has been an absentee from the New York races since his return east from Canada, because of illness. Louis Blank, whose horses and liniment were much in the public eye during and after the days of Guttenberg, was a recent visitor at the Yonkers track. Estelle. owned by W. K. Vanderbilt, won the Prix Filibuster at Tremblay. France, yesterday. The same owners Mirambo finished second in the Prix Banter. Trainer Thomas J. Healey has joined the R. T. Wilson. Jr.. stable at Saratoga. The stable foreman had charge of the horses while Mr. Healey remained at Empire City. William II. Snyder, who raced Southern Cross and other good horses, will break and train a band of yearlings for S. C. Hildreth at Sheepshead Bay.-Mr. Snyder devoted many years to handling trotters before taking up the thoroughbred. II. K. Knapps Petronius, which struck an ankle when he last started en the turf at Sheepshead Bay. has been fired and blistered. Fashion Plate, winner of the Metropolitan Handicap, from the same stable, has been on the easy side since lie palled up ianie some ten days ago. Preston Butch, trainer for the Chelsea Stable made a Hying trip to Empire City from Saratoga. He stati s that good health prevails in all the training camps at 1 lie Spa and horsemen predict well-balanced fields, which insure hard-fought finishes throughout the Saratoga meeting. Follie Levy, running without blinkers in her last race, was .well behaved iu the paddock enclosure, -and her conduct while at the post was greatly improved. Morning schooling at the barrier has bene filed the Golden Maxim filly and Gvorge Odom thinks she will be tractable in future. Mrs. L. A. Livingston has jttst had a . three quarter mile nice track completed at her recently-acquired property. Slu-rhrook Lodge Steak Farm, Co-bourg. Out. Other improvements are also boiug made. Dr. Carter, manager of Mrs. Livingstons Rancocns Stock Farm in New Jersey is ut the Canadian establishment superintending the improvements in progress. W. L. Towers states that he has had no word from the shipment of thoroughbreds, sent from J. P.. Haggins Elmemlotf Stud, in Kentucky, to the Argentine Rupuhllc. but that they should be off shipboard by ibis time. Only a few broodmares were ne-Bt with tall latest consignment. ISO yearlings comprising Ihe mala sliiomcni. It may take five or six mouths to market the lot. Harry Payne Whitneys Delirium ran alniivsf last in a Held of twenty-one hejrMta that started for the Stewards Cup at Uoodwood, England. Tuesday. The winner turned an in the 20 to 1 chance, QeldeB Hod, an Irish-bred four-year-old. owned by a woman. Mrs. Norton Jackson, which beat Sol Joels Poor Bov a neck. Trainer Jack Jovner won the Stewards Cup with II. B. Diirvea s Mediant iu 1909.
