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NOTES OF THE TURF. The Stewards three-year-old maiden at entry plate of 200 sovereigns, distance one mile and 120 yards, was won at Chester. Eng., Wednesday by August Belmonts Sands of the Orient. It is understood that jockey Olierts failure to obtain a riding license in Canada last year is the reason he has been ordered to accept no mounts at Lexington until the Kentucky State Racing Commission passes on his case. Gossip has it that there may shortly be an accession to the sport of racing in the person of a Toronto man, who has done some of the biggest things in iiiadinn affairs, whose name and activities extend not. only the breadth of the Dominion, but across the Atlantic. Toronto Globe. Hon. George Lambton. a successful English trainer, is an Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, man. He is the youngest of the great brotherhood, ot which Iord Durham is the head, who have played a prominent part in turf politics of recent years. He was originally intended for the army, and figured as a good amateur rider until lie met with a serious accident. The oulv man who voted against the Terrill anti-betting bill at Tallahassee, Fla., Wednesday, was Representative Rogers of Marion County, a Baptist preacher, who said he considered the bill so drastic as to be an invasion of personal rights. It virtually duplicates the New York. luisiana and California laws on the subject, and it is claimed by some that it wilt not stand the constitutional test. The bill awaits the governors signature.
