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NOTES OF THE TURF. Jockey Gauge! was indefinitely suspended at Butte yesleidiiy Cot unsatisfactory jiiling. It is uon generally accepted that Hie price paid by Louis Wiuaits to S. U. Hildreth for Dalmatian was *Io.ihm». J. F. Bartlctt has sold the t wo year old chestnut colt. Star Charter, by Star Shoot — Charter Queen, to Hairy L. Shaw for , MK». Bnal Hugh Brownes handicap horse. Kin;; Cobalt, is in active training again and will lie prepared for the fall ICrtian at PlaaHnr and Jamestown. It is announced thai a meeting will he hehl at the new half mile track at King Edward Park. Isle Gros Bois. near Montreal. September ly to 20. It is seini-otltcially announced that the paid attend anee at Saratoga exceeiled anything recorded since HHT. when the Percy -liray law was in effect. Batty Payne Whitneys two-year-old hay gelding. Sand ;l;tss. by Black Sand Valve, won the Hons Selling Plate of .ihio at York. England, yesterday. The distance was live-eighths of a mile. W. P. Fine will ship ids horses frith the ex caption of ;iorio to Lexington »i. the close of the Saratoga meeting. Clorio is round inn to and will till his enhancements on the Canadian courses. James lirirhn will ship the following horses to Louisville at the close of the Saratoga meeting: Czar, Fairy Story, Receiver, Felicity Murrat and Little Rajah. The string has been benefited by its Stay at the Spa. At the end of the Saratoga meeting James Blute ■will ship hjs string to Sheepshead Bay. After a months let up the horses, tfteeu in nmnl er. will he bbipped to Mares, where Mr. Blute raced with sue wps last winter. Harry Froclich. wlio formerly made hook at Pacific oast tracks, is being detained in the insane ward of the Oakland. Cat., receiving hospital, having suffered a mental breakdown that his friends expect to he only a temporary condition, due to a physical1 disorder. Among the twenty two yearling coLts in the stable] of R. T. Wilson. Jr., a hay colt by Oriiiohilnle has the stamp of a groat race horse. Critical judges have looked this fellow over and lie has been pro-houueed a remarkable individual. He possesses size, substance and all the points essential to a coll of class. | Thomas Hitchcock. Jr., will dispose of the major part of his stable before the end of the Saratoga meeting. Tbe horses to lie sold are two and three-year olds by Yankee and Mexican. Several more built On the lines of typical steeplechase horses will be re-Served for cross-country racing in France. Mr. Hitchcock intends to ship his horses abroad this, fall. James R. Kecne says that cuppy going at Saratoga was the cause of lion Masks defeat by Novelty in the Hopeful. Mr. Kecne suggests that the track be scraped and allowed to dry out ItetVre the Futurity. It is a tradition that the get of Itisguise never relished heavy or cuppy going. Iron Mask and Mask-elte. both by Disguise. neinj a lightning fast track to show their best form. Of the two year-olds that Raleigh Colston was training for C. 1.. Mairison last spring all have since changed hands save tbe Broomstick— Lizzie T. colt. Aviator, a Kentucky Derby eligible of till, Mr. Harrison has a small bunch of home bred yearlings to make up his t wo-year-idd string next season, and these, with Waldo and Aiator. will coaapoae his racing stable next year. The earliest definite establishment of horse racing seem" to have been made at Cheater, Knglaml. it ; was William Lester who, about MM, being mayor of Chester, did cause three silver bolls to be made of good value to l o run for upon the "Boone Dee." From tin ha fife of the prize was derived the proverb "To bear the bell." The Chester Cup. which has been substituted for the "best bell." is now worth ,900, to say nothing of Cheshire cheeses for the thane placed horses.
