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NOTES OF THE TURF. Announcement is made that a .lit teen-days race meeting will open at Ogden May 1. Jarretiero, owned by Frank J. Gould, finished second in the race for the Prize Simoniau, worth 8,000 francs, at St. Cloud, in France, yesterday. The report comes from Washington that a new race track will be built at Laurel, Md.. twelve miles from the national capital in season for opening next fall. C. C. Van Meier is negotiating for a contract on tho services of jockey George Mountain to till the vacancy resulting from the departure of jockey D. Austin for Austria. The owner of a Kings Plate candidate at Toronto is endeavoring to secure the services of jockey G. Archibald to ride his horse. Archibald is under contract to R. F. Carman. The Interest of the estate of the lale Dan Stuart in Oaklawn Park, at Hot Springs, Ark., will be olfered for sale during the current mouth. J. II. Madigan is reported to have recently made an offer for it. Mike Ryan, a well-known trainer of thoroughbreds in former days, when lie handled the stable of Ruddy Bros., of Chicago, died Saturday at St. Josephs Hospital at .Memphis, Tenii., of rheumatism of the heart. Trainer Dan Murphy, who arrived at Lexington from Florida witli II. G. Turners horses, has turned them out at the Iroquois Stock Farm for rest. Mr. Turner will buy some breeding stock for his farm in Coatsville, la., while the Lexington meeting is on. One of the strongest stables ever shipped to Kentucky from the east will arrive at the Lexington track within the next few days. It is that of It. F. Carman, who will ship two carloads from Belmont Park, including such star performers as Bonnie Kelso. Meridian. Starbottle, The Turk, M. Cambou, Cohort arid several crack two-year-olds. Wade McLemore has decided not to ship his good mare Meadow to Kentucky, but instead will send her and the rest of his string to Denver in charge of trainer T. B. Mumford. He transferred all his horses to his farm in Texas from Juarez and some of them will be turned out until fall, including the three-year-old Rue and the two-year-old Thistle Rose. O. J. Decker, the old-time trainer who won his reputation in the days of Monmouth Park and Gut-tenborg, has quit tho turf for commerce and is comfortably established in n general store in a littlo Connecticut town. Trainer Deckers last turf success was when he rejuvenated Master" Robert and won several races with him the past winter after the horse was considered a hopeless cripple. January 30. 1011. saw the last of the bookmakers on New Zealand race courses. When the parliament of that dominion legalized bookmakers in the session; of 1907. the first meeting at which they operated, was that held under the auspices of the Takapuna, Jockey Club, which races at a marine suburb, "of. Auckland popularly known as the North Shore. By a coincidence it was Takapuua that was to see" thX last of the layers of the odds. The bookmaKiir.s went out with musical honors, the band being, marched up to the portion Of the hill where tliey were wont to operate, and "We Parted oti the Shore" given amidst some enthusiasm. The tolali, zator is now the sole recognized medium of spooula. tion on New Zealand coarsen. , ..
