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NOTES OF THE TURF. Enoch Wishard, who trained for John A. Drake in this country, is now in France. Race course managers in search of novelties might find a suggestion in the conditions of some ancient races. The. rules of a race at Newmarket m 1QG0 provided that the last horse in each heat should pay the second horses fees as well as his own. That made it expensive to be last. Clarence W. Nichols, whose horses are handled by t nii tier Charles J. Casey at Oakland, will shortly leave New York for a brief visit to Juarez. Ike NTehols stable will be shipped east soon to bo raced on the metropolitan tracks. In the lot is a promising colt by Rock Sand named Cracker Box. Mr. Nichols Is "credited with having made an pld-fash-ionejl clean-up when Dutch Rock scored at Oakland recently. Detitscker Sport, the German racing paper, says that trainer J. II. McCormick has secured three American jockeys to ride for his patrons in Ger-hVany. They are Vincent Powers for Heir Haniel s stable, William Knapp for Freilierr S. A. von Op-pennelms stable, and F. Herbert, the last named a lightweight who will ride for both establishments. Knapp and Herlwrt are of German extraction. Mr. McOornilcl: sailed from New York for England Tuesday. ...... The Indiana legislature is considering a bill aimed at poolrooms. The bill was drawn under Governor Marchalls direction and makes the operation ot a poolroom a felony punishable by from one to eight venrs confinement in the penitentiary, flic pro-jtoned law will also apply to "any person who shall record or register bets or wagers or sells pools on the result of any trial or contest of skill, speed or power of endurance of man or beast." Peter Wimmer is wintering at Churchill Downs. Mr. Wimmer Will have his horses ready for the Lexington meeting, and after Lexington he will take in Churchill Downs and Estonia. Mr. AVimmer is handling a string of a dozen two and three-year-olds he owns in partnership with Catsby Woodford of Raceland Stud. He has two good-looking Star Shoot colts, one out of Mercurial and another out of .Tanewood, in the Juvenile Stakes, which will be the first important two-year-old special at Belmont Park in May. The imported stallion, Fatherless, which has been at the head of Oapt. R. J. Hancock and Sons Ellers-lie Stud in Virginia for the past ten years, is dead. Fatherless was a bay horse, foaled in 1SQ0, by Ison-omy Orphan Agnes, by Speculum. Fatherless sired some good racers. The death is also reported of imported Onuis, bv Bend Or Ashgrove, by Albert Victor, at Henry T. Oxnards Blue Ridge Farm in Virginia. Ornus was a chestnut horse, foaled in 1891, and was the sire of Okimbala, Oiseau and other noted racers. George Rose, who is an important stockholder in the Santa Anita track, is quoted as saying that the grandstand at that course is for sale for 0,000 to anybody desiring to take it down for transfer elsewhere. This would seem to indicate that California racing folk see little hope for the future of the spout. There has been a revival of tle talk concerning a track at Tia Juana. Mex.. near San Diego. Cal.. as a result of the latest movement against California racing, but it is based upon the idea that those behind the Juarez track may be interested in the Tia Juana project which is emphatically denied by the Juarez management.
