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NOTES OF THE TURF. S. A. Clopton passed throagh Chicago yestiTelay on his way to Salt Lake City. The new paddock at Latonia is so arranged that spectators will hi kept at a safe distanie from the horses, hut yit will he mar enough to see- what :oes on. Frank Hathaway, bookmaker, died at Pittsburg Sunday. He was forty-two years of age. He suf-fered dariag the past two yean with asthma, which caused his death. Joe-key George Mountain, who was injured in a fall in a rare on the last day of the Lexington meeting, has entirely recovered from the effects of the accident and is ready to resume- riding at Churchill Downs. The program tiook of the- Windsor race meeting. Which opens July 15, will provide for two events for Canadian I. red two-year-olds, ami there will he several Ixtarea for the older horses qualified for Do lninion-hred races. Advices from Jacksonville are to the effect that the reeeat lire :it Ifoacrief Park destroyed all the liuihliiigs within the enclosure except the stahles. There is nothing left of the grandstand, paeidock. betting ring and secretarys office except the cement piers on which the various all at lama rested. Harry Oidelings judgment in refusing .000 for an Ontario bud maiden three-year-old, when he tunnel down an offe-r of that amount for St. Dass a few weeks ago, was amply vindicated during the To-roato meeting. The- statistics of the meeting show* St. Baaa as wfcaaer of .:ioo and. beafdea the honor and glory of winning Bach coveted events as the Kings Plate, the Br lers Stakes and the William Iliads Is Memorial Handicap. Mr. Giddlags still owns the horse.
