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NOTES OF THE TURF. Jockey M. McGee now weighs 12S pounds. Thi paid attendance at the Lagoon track is invariably in excess of 1,008, according to the Salt I Lake dailies. Beth won the Vancouver Ilerby. the feature of the ■ losing daj "s raring of the Vancouver Jockey Clubs In— t meeting. Salali was second and Bell Cliff third. The management of the Inter Mountain Fair at Rotse, Idaho, will otter .0 Mt for an Inter-Mountain Derby, distance one mile and a quarter, to be rim mi connection with the roaalni falls racing at that place. Worth.- absence from the Harold Stakes field at Lataaia this afternoon is due to Ma having ni t with a slight inury in his last stall. He probsbly will meet The Manager and other good racers of hi- age in the Cincinnati Trophy at Latonia July s. Tin- anomalous situation of some of the states of the American Union among civilized people is strikingly illustrated by the position of Mr. August Belmont, chairman of the Jockey Club of New York. Sufficiently interested in the sport of the turf to maintain establishments in three countries, he is prevented from doing so in his own. He has horses racing, or ready to race, in Canada. England and in France, but he cannot run them at home. It is a curious failure of popular government that destroys v. h.it it should hare been capable of remedying. — Toronto Globe. It need not be emphasized how appreciated was the sporting spirit displayed by Mr. R. M. Dale in bringing over a Canadian-bred colt with a view to a. blaring ehuale honors, but the chance of Kei dOr was proved to be hopeless on his ignominious per fi.rmance in a merely ordinary field at Lewes. Here "as another disappointment, but a Derby winner Wared in the Dominion on the other side may not be beyond tbe range of possibility, and future attempts iathis direction by Mr Hale, or other owners, are sure of the sympathy and liest wishes of sportsmen lu the mother country. — London Sportsman.
