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NOTES OF THE TURF. J. S. Evcrman is now training the horses of A. Vogeler. A new race track will be built at Chestertown, Md.. on which there will be racing in connection with the annual joint fair of Kent and Queen Anne counties. Trainer J. Simon Heaiey will ship a string of E. B. Cassatts horses to Pimlico for the meeting opening next Saturday. Dreamer and Belfast will be in the consignment. J. E. Davis has nominated Firestone for jumping races as well as in stakes to be run over the flat, during the approaching Pimlico meeting. He has had nearly a months schooling through the field. At Nottingham, England, yesterday, the Barnby Manor Maiden Plate of 100 sovereigns for two-year-olds, was won by H. P. Whitneys bay gelding, Sunup, by Hamburg Morningslde, with the Witty Girl filly second and Thimble colt third. Fourteen ran. Announcement Is made that the horses of the Beverwyck Stable, owned by Frank Nolan, of Albany, will be sold by the Powers-Hunter Company at Pimlico on October 14. The horses to be sold include Sir John Johnson, Bob R., Danfield, Lady Irma, Aldrian and Banyah. Mrs. L. A. Livingston might have run her Cobourg-bred horses in the Durham Cup, in the Dominion Handicap, in the Elgin Purse or in the Peel Purse during the recent Woodbiue meeting had she had anything ready. All these events were for horses foaled in Canada regardless of ownership. August Belmonts Watervale was successfully operated on for poll-evil at Woodbine last week. Until recently, this disease was considered incurable. Watervale is hold by many horsemen to be the best three-year-old in America, but has been able to run only a few times this season. Now that he is cured of his allllction, even jnore brilliant performances may be expected from him. W. B. Carson is on his way from Coeur dAlene to Laurel. Md.. with Jockey Hopkins and eleven horses. The shipment consisted of Electric, Muff, .Tippy, Jessup Burn, Billy Hancock, Elizabeth Ilar-wood. Judge Quiun, Dacia and Quality Street, owned by Mr. Carson, and Raleigh and Myles OConnell, owned by F. W. Doss. Schewbig will succeed Hopkins as the apprentice rider of the stable next mouth, when Hopkins apprenticeship will expire. In trying to make Donau, the Kentucky Derby winner of 1010, do his work at the Downs one morning recently, Assistant Starter Harry Morrissey, who helps Trainer George Ham occasionally with the erratic gelding, went after him with his long snake whip. Donau outwitted Morrissey by simply lying down in the track and refusing to get up, after he had unseated his rider, though Morrissey used the whip severely on him. The occurrence caused much amusement. Raleigh Colston, owner of Princess Callaway, has two yearlings that he expects will make good two-year-olds next season. One is a brother to the noted Fountainblue, and the other is a half sister to Berry Maid. The latter Is by Out of Reach, and the former is a son of Oddfellow. That noted sire is still alive at the advanced age of twenty-six years. He is now owned by J. N. Camden, the Woodford County member of the Kentucky State Racing Commission. Dave Lcary did not remain long at Laurel with the Uildreth horses, but transferred them to Pimlico without giving any reason for his action. It Is suspected that the somewhat unfinished state of the new plant did not appeal to him. II. I. Brown commented on the matter as follows: "I was not surprised at the action and am in no way displeased, as I never cater to one more than another. The shipping away of these horses from Laurel will in no way injure the racing; In fact, it will see many enter in the handicaps who would not have done so otherwise." Silas Veitch has nine steeplechasers in charge. The string includes Baron Dieskau and Bishop, owned by II. W. Sage and E. B. Smith, of Ballston, N. Y.: Frank Stasg, owned by F. S. Von Stade: Waterspeed, owned by II. K. Viugut. son-in-law of Mayor Gaynor, of New York: Gold Plate, Far West and Supplement, owned by II. S. Page and M. C. Schwartz, who races under the name of "Mr. Arch-dale;" Adventurer, owned by W. R. Martin, of Lancaster, Pa., the master of the Killashandra Hunt, and Enniskillen. owned by Mrs. A. M. N. Singer, of Baltimore. Veitch, who used to ride for the late R. C. Hooer, of Boston, and who was known as a dar lug and skillful cross-country rider, is now -equally prominent as a trainer, and has a particularly strong following among the Long Island hunting set.
