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NOTES OF THE TURF. Emory K. broke a leg at Oklahoma City Tuesday and was destroyed. Ed Corrigan is at Churchill Downs daily and may sell his contract on jockey A. Wrlspen before the meeting closes. Trainer George Ham has two yearling fillies 1" training for William Gcrst, one by Oddfellow and the other by Lissnk. Harry La Montagues colt Fred Keene, OLcary up, won the Prix Rochefort Steeplechase with supreme ease at Ramboulllet in France Tuesday. W. II. Shelley will be racing secretary and presiding judge for the meeting that Col. M. J. Winn will manage next month at Mexico City. The veteran Green B. Morris is a daily attendant at the Iiouisvillt; races. Ho has no horses now, having recently sold Workbox to W. O. Joplin. Jockeys Kcderis and Selden are getting along nicely at Coeur dAlcnc, according to reports. Rclden will be back In the saddle this week and Kcderis broken leg Is mending rapidly. Ten bookmakers are laying prices at the Oklahoma City meeting, including Sam Stephens, K. H. Hughes, Oates and Keisel. John Grant, Al Valentine, AV. Davis, Charles Pcnn and Harry Anderson. Tom Kiley, who rode Spokane In the Kentucky Derby of 1889, when that Montana-owned colt beat the sensational Proctor Knott, may go to France, where his old partner, Eugene Leigh, has achieved great success. William Hurley, who for years trained the eastern division of E. R. Bradleys stable, is at Churchill Downs. He wants to buy several good horses to race in Mexico the coming winter. He has a coming two-year-old in training now which is one of the most promising yearlings he ever broke. II. McCarren has purchased from August Bclmout a yearling bay colt by Hastings. Mr. McCarren lias three other yearlings of his own raising, all of which are by his own horse Hapsburg, a half-brother to the mighty Hamburg. Two of the youngsters are colts out of Florida Rose and Ethel Wheat. Thomas Brown Is assisting in the secretarys office at Churchill Downs. W. H. Shelley is serving as haudicappcr and clerk of the course. Capt. James Jacobs is in charge of the policing of the track. Eugene Elrod is superintending the betting ring and John Hachmelster is in charge of the financial administration of the pari-mutuel department. The following notice has been posted by the Coeur dAlenc Fair and Racing Association: "The management desires to notify all, cither directly or lu-dlrctly concerned, either as owners, trainers, jockeys or exercise boys, that the use of any electrical appliance to a dumb animal constitutes an offense against the criminal code of the State of Idaho and that an offender, when caught and convicted, will bo liable to a heavy fine and imprisonment not exceeding live years. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has secret agents in daily attendance and will spare no expense to convict violators."
