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NOTES OF THE TURF. Romp, which E. T. Miller claimed recently from J. B. Respess. has again changed hands, anil Olin John-saa is now his owner. Tom Ryan, doing the best he can at Latonia. was recently asked how he was faring. Tretty well." said he. "I stood one l et off and lost eleven others. Thats nothing, though. I was east once and lost twenty straight bets and won the next one, and quit to the good. William Gerst has five yearlings this season, three colts and two fillies. The colts are by The Commoner. Ivan the Terrible and Yorick. One of the fillies is by Yorick and the other by Zal. The last-named two horsi s are owned by Mr. Ocrst. and he says they have developed into grand-looking stallions. Hugh McCarren has three yearlings. All are by Hapsburg, a half-brother to Hamburg, one being a colt and the others fillies. The colt is out of Florida Rose, while the fillies are out of Glad Smile and Ethel Wheat. The latters yearling is a sister to Kthelburg, which won the Debutante Stakes at Loui-isville for Mr. McCarren in 1300. D. N. Irewitt has recently had some bad luck with the produce of bis noted broodmare, Evergreen, the dam of T. M. Green. Her produce of 1310. a colt by Dick Welles, died as a suckling and a few days ago he lost her suckling filly by Nasturtium at Woodburn Farm, where he had shipped the mare to In mated this season to Knight of the Thistle. Evergreen is eleven years old. She never raced, having been foaled with a club foot. Her two-year-old of this season is Mack B. Eubanks, a recent winner at Latonia.
