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NOTES OF THE TURF. Among the improvements at Fort Erie this season is a new steeplechase coarse, built up to Ihe regulation height. Harry Payne Whitneys Whisk Broom ran second in the Duke of Cambridge Stakes of 1.000 sovereigns al Newmarket Wednesday. Frank J. builds Comboitrg. ridden by Keiff. finished second in ihe Liix Flageolet of 20.O00 francs a I Tri niblay in France Wednesday. W. G. Yanke expects to start Quartermaster during the I.atonia meeting, the horse having recovered from the effect* of a quarter crack. It is said that considerably more than 00,000 u.is Involved in the transaction by which Hairy Payne Whitney purchased James K. K es entire crop of yearlings. There were fifty-seven of them. Ihe Cueiir ilAIene Fair and Kacing Association "il give a poultry show in connection with the si eond period of its inaugural meeting following the close of he Interstate Fair at Spokane. Other exhibition features will be added from lime to time. The position of the many driving club charters in Ontario is just the same as before the Niagara Falls project was suppressed by the Provincial Governments refusal to issue a license. They amy be used for the purpose* for which they were granted, but Hoy cannot he peddled or trafliced in by alien pro-nraters of Illegitimate meetings. — Toronto Globe. Moid has been received from Geratany that Willie Shaw, an American rider, won the Dig Prise on Prince Hohenlohes Kassandra at Hamburg. This is the third time that Shaw has won this Important event, which is worth 5. 000. The Big Prise is run over the one utile and three furlomrs coarse. Kassandra covered it in 2:21f. Shaw has met with considerable success this aCSSOS and is riding at 109 iH.uiiils. The Prix de Paray, a handicap of ,250. distance eleven furlongs, was won by Eugene Pflser** Padrone II. at hfaiaons Laffitte yesterday. The Irix DKragnv selling, for two year old fillies, ,:iO. distance four and one half furiongS, was won by Thomas I". Thornes Proa Frou V.: W. K. Vambrbilts Maggie was second. In the Prix de Crenille of 91,000, dla tance one and one-half miles. Frank .1. Goulds Pauviw Bone finished second, ami in the Prix DKs-sai il.-s Poulaine II. B. Dnryeaa Monsieur Querln came in second. David . Johnson died at his New York home Thuis. lav night following an operation for cancer of the stomach. He had been seriously ill for several week* and Ihe operation was decided upon as .1 last resort. He was widely known on the turf as •■Davy" Johnson, racing devotee, and was one of the most spectacular of the plungers on the New York 1 racks in the period Immrdlstrlj preceding the pas-sag" Of the Hart-Agnew law. He achieved his greatest fame as owner of Hie sensational sprinter. U- -• U 11, winner of 4.!10. ». I. I.nmar. H. M. Mason. ,T. E. King. F. W. Forsting, Frank Iarrar. D. S. Fountain. C. Mul-holland. J. Day. .. Thomas. W. J. OKourke. Chris Martin, Early Wright, E. Kaufman, c. Davis. Charles Lewis. Fred Foster. W. 1". Maxwell. V,. Covington, W. McDonald, William Hawk. w. V. Fine. B. J. Fan-is. J. Kraus. C. Darker, Oarritv and Dunlap. J. D. Line. T. Ooulding. F. McEwen, Ed Oct, -hell and J. M. Shilling are among owners now racing at Vancouver who have made reservations for the Coenr dAlene Fair ami Racing Association* meeting-.
