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NOTES OF THE TURF. C 1$. Daiiicis is preparing to ship his horses from Taiupa to his -home in Texas with the idea of turning tlieui out. The fence rails and steeplechase obstacles have been restored at Belmont Park. They were taken down last fall for an aviation meeting. R. T. Wilson, who is wintering at his estate at ihe mouth of the Savannah river, will go to Norfolk next month to see some of Ills .horses race. Mrs. John B. Maekey, wife or the well-known horseman associated for so many years with J. B. llaggiu. died at her home in California a few davs ago of heart failure. Algernon Daingerlield, assistant secretary of the Jockey Club, has sent out the annual notices to trainers and jockeys that applications for licenses must be filed as soon as possible. Thoroughbred race horses are galloping on the Coney Island boulevard nowadays after the long winters rest at Sheepshead Bay and Gravescnd. Many of them, if the weather remains favorable, will soon canter over the tracks in preparation for racing, at Jamestown and Pimlico. Former jockey John Patton acts as J. L. Halls clerk for the paddock sales held at the Jockey Club Juarez track. He and Harry Morrissey, also once a rider, how an assistant to starter Mars Cassidv, orten amuse the crowd with stories of races in winch they rode in the days when Guttenberg and Gloucester nourished. The race horses Oberon, John A. and Snow Ball havo been attached in foreclosure of mortgage proceedings at Jacksonville by Lester F. Hoover and I. A. Murray. George A. Millsap, who took the horses to .Moncrief Park, has departed from Jacksonville, according to the allegations in the papers filed in connection with the case. Barllett McLennan, the Canadian horseman who won the Champion Steeplechase of 1908 with Agent, is on his way to Europe for a two months stay. He wilt see some stceplechasing at Paris and then go over to Liverpool for the Grand National. Mr. McLennan will return to America in time to sec Agent race at Belmont Park and Toronto.
