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NOTES OF THE TURF. Ben Lasca is a confirmed rail runner. Former Jockey Oarl Mitchell is now an owner-trainer at I.atoiiia. Waldo pulled up in sound condition after his race of Saturday at I.atoiiia. E. R. Rradlev will turn out his two-vear-old filly Bachelor Girl until fall. The riders of the placed horses at Hamilton are weighed in at the judges stand and the others in the paddock. J. B. Rcspess does not expect to start his two year-olds at I.atonia. Nearly all of them have "bucked" shins. Steeplechasing will be added to the program of the King Edward Park meeting, sehhedoled to begin at Montreal. June 24. Lconce Fuller, a well-known amateur rider, is in a critical condition a* Boston as the result of a fall in a race at Brooklino Saturday. H. K. Kuapp has returned east from Kentucky, well pleased with his experiences iu the west. His horses will race at I.atonia to the end of the meeting. Max Hineh otTcred" 1. H. Wheatcroft $."..000 for the two-year-old King Broomstick after his recent defeat at I.atonia. but Mr. Wheatcroft declined to sell. J. Proctor Knott, former governor of Kentucky, for whom a famous thoroughbred of many years ago was named, died at his home at Lebanon, Ky.. Sunday. The valets at Hamilton are employed by the track management and are nam by the jockeys. Ah official of the club makes the assignment of valets daily. C. D. Winn, who is prominent in Ecuador, shipped Tennessee. Lady of Iahus. Outcast and Ralph W. from Latonia to that country Saturday, having purchased them for racing at Guayaquil, where the principal course ill Ecuador is located. James R. Kecnes Runnymcdo. which lias been racing successfully in England of late, was believed to lie a formidable Futurity candidate in this country .vast year until he went wrong. Trainer Rowe for a time believed that the colt would never stand training. J. C. Fletchers Blue Bonnets, whose victory in the Emperors Cup race in Japan recently was reported not long ago. followed up that success by winning the Championship Cup. one and one-quarter miles, in 2:15, a new record. Mr. Fletcher won both of these races last year with Woodbine. Ten thousand persons attended the opening of the Country Clubs meeting of three days at Clyde Park. Brookline. Mans., last Saturday. Governor Foss of Massachusetts presented various pieces of plate to winning owners, including I.ieut. Rockwell. C. S. A., whose Matabon won the military race. What betting took place was on the oral pun. The Grand Steeplechase dc Paris was won at Am. nil track Sunday by Edinond Veil Picanis • Blagear II.. at ., to 1 in the betting. The same owners Cheshire Cat was second and James Hen- nessya Lnttenr II.. third. The race was at four miles and a sixteenth and was worth this year 7,600, besides a trophy valued at .,OO0. Daring tin- six day mixed meeting to lie given by the Spokane Interstate Fair Association, three run ning races will be given daily for purses of 50. The conditions will he arranged to suit the horses al the link. In addition to these races there will be sl.r.iM for live stakes for the runners. The Derby at a mile and an eighth will have a value of ,000. J. J. McCafferty. who is now at Latonia. in describing what he saw of racing in the Argentine Republic, had this to say: "They race in Argentina three times a week, with seven races each day. The purses tn from ,100 to 90,600. Everything in the betting line is done quietly. The betting inelostirc is a sort id round house witli little windows like the cashiers have at I.atonia. Yon do not see any betting machines. On the roof Is the totalizator, which i Stantly shows the number of tickets sold on the various horses in the race."
