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NOTES OF THE TURF. C. H. Patten and l"ov Mary have been fired, the latter for a blind splint. August Belmont sailed yesterday for Europe. Ibis Bopefnl if the passage of the Gittins bills now peauhhg at Albany. Fiv thousand persona saw Orbfeular win the Ok laboma Ofty Derby Tuesday. lack Atkln, Fred Cook. Al Valentine. Al Austin and E. II. Hughes were smnnr the eleven bookmakers who laid odds there. fttUtoa B. la dote* slow work at Latonia and c. D. Cbeuaiitt expects to start bias during the closing days of the Latonia meeting. He is not showing any of the soreness thai marked his work earlier in the Flank G. Hogaa who is financially interested in the Lag i track mar Salt l.aks City, lias received word from Presiding Judge Martin Nathanson that the Log i meeting is ■ huge success and well patronized. J. E. Respess baa nineteen yearlings with an as-tonMbingly large proportion of COlts. There are nineteen In all. live by .Marathon, all eoita, a cult b Six Shooter and ten cits and three tillies by Dick Welle--. He also baa seventeen weanlings from tie t atj ire mares thai he bred. William Germ of Nashville is Seeing his first racing of the season at Latonia. Pressure of business kepi him swaj from the earlier meetings. Mr. Gerst Is greatly disappointed by tie- showing of his Ken tncky Derb winner Douau- He had hoped to see him in condition this season, but the horse seems %9 have deteriorated into u racer of little, uccount.
