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N0TES0F THE TURF. H. Kirbv has sold Cigar, by Morganatic Smoke, the crack" Irish two-year-old of last season, to an English owner for 5,000. The Prix do la Picardie, run at Enghien, France, vesterdav, was won by Eugene Fischofs Journalistic, hi the Prix de la Canehe .1. E. Wideners Truckee finished second. David Dunlop has divided his stable, sending Touch Me and Takabira to Theo Coles at Denning, while Gus Engelking has taken Touchwood, Bemlaga and several others to Norfolk. , Thp last-named division of the stable will follow the Virginia fair clr- cult, while the others will race on the more important tracks. . President J. E. Seagram of the Ontario Jockey Club Is reported to have refused an offer of 5,000 from England for the broodmare Court Maid, the only daughter or Cyllene in America. Jockey Butwell. who Is spending a few days at his home in Toronto prior to departure for Russia to fill a lucrative engagement, was a telegraph messenger before he took up his career on the turf. Two special horse trains will leave Jacksonville for the north on Monday. April 3, following the close of the Moncrief meeting. One of the trains will go direct to Baltimore and the other to Norfolk. Three more of King Georges yearlings have been named as follows: Aniner, b. e. bv Florizel II. Guinea Hen; Flitchani, b. c, by Desmond Sweet Vernal, and Princess Dagmar, ch, f, by Gallinule Ecila. An addition to the entries for the Kings Plate at Toronto is the five-year-old chestnut horse. Roving Hob, by Rover Dodie S., whose weight will be 127 pounds. Roving Hob is owned by J. AV. Arthur of Brampton. He brings the number of eligibles up to exactly twenty. "William Alison. "Special Commissioner" of the Loudon Sportsman, nicks, Sea forth to win the Two Thousand Guineas. Cylllusfor the Derby, Alice for the One Thousand Guineas and Nicola for the Oaks. The American lilly Hashti he expects to be the runner-up for the One Thousand Guiueas.
