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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. Wrispcn before the mooting closes. Trainer George Ham has two yearling fillies in training for William Gcrst, one by Oddfellow and the other by Lissak. Harry La Montagues colt Fred Keene. OLeary up, won the Prix Rocliefort Steeplechase with supreme ease at Ranibouillet 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 lmisville races. He has no horses now, having recently sold Workbox to W. O. Joplin. Jockeys Koderis and Seidell are getting along nicely at Coeur dAlene, according to reports. Selden will be back in the saddle this week and Kcderls broken leg is mending rapidly. Ten bookmakers are laying prices at the Oklahoma City meeting, including Sam Stephens, E. H. Hughes, Oatcs and Keisel. John Grant, Al Valentine, W. Davis, Charles Pcnu and Harry Anderson. Tom Kiley, who rode Spokane in the Kentucky Derby of 1889. when that Montana-owned colt lieat 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. 11. McCarrcn has purchased from August Belmont a yearling bay colt by Hastings. Mr. McCarren has 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 colls out of Florida Rose and Ethel Wheat. Thomas Brown is assisting in the secretarys office at Churchill Downs. W. II. Shelley is serving as handicapper 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 Hachmeister is in charge of the financial administration of the pari-mutuel department. The following notice has been posted by the Cocur dAlene Fair and Racing Association: "The management desires to notify all, cither directly or iu-dirctly 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 :m offender, when caught and convicted, will bo liable to a heavy fine and imprisonment not exceeding five years. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Auimals has secret agents in daily attendance and will spare no expense to convict violators."
