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NOTES OF THE TURF. Max Hirsch will ship Taboo from Latonia to Wind sor. An attempt to hold a foitrteen-days meeting at Muskog.-e. Okla.. has been abandoned. Messenger Boy went lame in a recent work-out at Latonia and probably will be retired until fall. Peter Wimnier and Theodore Abadie will rest their horses at Churchill Downs until fall racing begins in Kentucky. Thomas Dolan. who rode about a decade ago for Tin .mas Mcllal.- of Memphis, SBU shot and killed in a Memphis hotel Sunday. J. C. Calm will go to Canada for the rest of the slimmer, but will ship his horses to Churchill Downs to await the opealag of fall racing at Lexington. James McManus is planning to take Presumption to Canada, but most of his horses probably will be shipped to Louisville at the close of the Latonia meeting. It was necessary to destroy Execute following his breakdown at lagoon Saturday. Tills horse had been racing successfully in the colors of Powell and Parker for several years. The Dufferin Park meetings at Toronto this year will be from Wednesday, August 2. to Wednesday. August 0. and from Saturday. September 0. to Saturday, September 10. .1. E. Widener scored two victories at the Ram-bouillet race course in Fiance yesterday, his East River winning the Prix de Voisinss and his Avenue the Prix de Maintenon. Charles W. Clarks Fran.ine and fi. W. Berrys Ymir have been matched for 12,800 a side at the Lagoon track. The distance will he five-eighths of a mile. Francine to carry 118 and Ymir 118. J. Johnson, owner of the Quincy Stable, lias changed trainers. Clint DeWitt. who trained the horses for two years, turned Everett and Warbler over to K. Pbelaa, who has shipped them from Fort Erie to Gravesend. The rest of the string has been disposed of. Said -August Belmont In London last Saturday: "It has been charged that gambling on race tracks is a distinct feature of New York life. Can Englishmen imagine London without Derby day? Or Paris without a Grand Prix : The racing situation in New York at present is due to bigotry and hypocrisy." Jerome Held, Immanuel Marks and William Howell, who wer • taken into custody during the recent meeting al Hawthorne for alleged violation of the gambling laws of Illinois, have succeeded in obtaining a change of venue from Judge Edward Kendalls com-t to that of Judge Frank A. McKee at Oak Iark. Their case will come up July IS. Already horsemen are speculating on probable dales for the fall racing in Kentucky. There will be an abundance of horses in Kentucky this season to begin racing the last week in August or the first week in September and race until well on into No-vesaher. Early meetings this season would be popular with the horsemen. — Louisville Courier-Journal. Something like the Bertillon finger print system was applied to a horse the other day in Paris. Before the start for a race Badajoz amused himself by letting out freely with his heels at his rivals and succeeded in kicking Baron ile Rothschilds Kildare 11. After the race Kildarc II.s in juries were examined and a perfect imprint of Badajoz shoe was found on his skin. A committeeman present at the examination exclaimed: "Whats this ■.-• and forthwith inflicted a fine of ,$.! k» ,.n Shields, the kickers trainer, for the imprint showed clearly that Badajoa wore certain American shoes forbidden by French racing regulations, which insist on perfectly fiat plates. — New York Sun.
