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NOTES OF THE TURF. T. C. McDowell will confine his summer racing to Kentucky. Moclick is standing at G. L. Blackfords Elm View Stud at Dcnnison, Tex. J. B. Wideners Truckee won the Prix Nuage at the Autcuil course in France Sunday. Mickey Miles, who went abroad several weeks ago to ride for M. Eygedi in Austria, has arrived at the Vienna course. George Rose, the well-known layer, is still in San Francisco awaiting developments in the east before he makes his summer plans. Clem Pierce will leave Lexington thi morning for Beuning with twelve of John E. Maddeus thoroughbreds that wintered at Hamburg Place. H. P. Lee will endeavor to get his two-year-old lilly, Travel Light, ready for the Jamestown meeting. Travel Light is by Jean Bereaud The Hackney, and is stabled at Belmont Park. Albert Simons, who is training Lahore for James Rowe at Jacksonville, announces that the colt will go to the post in the Derby at Moncrief Park April 2. Eddie Dugan will go south to ride him. At the close of the Jacksonville meeting J. W. Schorr will divide his stable. Part of his horses will be shipped: to Kentucky in charge of Elizah Drowstcr, while the rest will go to Pimllco in charge of J. F. Schorr. Jockey Willie Shaw, who has just sailed for Germany to fill a 0,000 engagement, is said to be worth 50,000 and though more than twenty-five years old, he can ride at 107 pounds. He has a" big following- in Emperor Williams land. Miss Thclraa Walden Llttlefield, daughter of Fred Littlefield, has presented the stallion Dolce Far N4ente to the Maryland Breeding Bureau and the liorse has, been assigned to Harford County for mating with cold-blooded and half-bred marcs. Aylmers victory In the Florida Special at Moncrief Park Saturday had the effect of advancing John W. Schorr to first position in the list of money-winning owners at the Jacksonville track. The Schorr horses have won 3,225 during the meeting, while those of F, J. Pons; who was the leader up to Saturday, have won 2,SoO. Vincent Powers, Fred Herbert and Willie Knapp, a trio of riders engaged to ride for Baron Oppen-heinier -and Richard Heinal in Germany, are out on the training grounds at Iloppcgarten. near Berlin, every morning galloping the horses trained by Jambs McCormick. These riders are having their first experience in Europe. They are favorably impressed with . the country.
