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NOTES OF THE TURF. Additional improvements are in contemplation for the Churchill Downs course for next season. The American string of J. E. Widener, in charge of J. Howard Lewis, has arrived at Pimlico. The yearlings of the Yalley Farm are to be sold today nt Toronto. The majority of them are bj Martimas. A number of horses belonging to P. S. P. Randolph, that have been resting at Lakewood, N. J., have been transferred to Pimlico for racing. William Shelley, who will serve as racing secretary and presiding judge for the Jockey Club of Mexico meeting, will leave Louisville for Mexico City October 17. At St. Cloud, in France, yesterday, Americans carried off two of the purses, W. K. Vanderbilts Didius winning the Prix des Foures and Thomas P. ThoruH Monsieur Gueriu the Prix, de la Remise. The Kentucky Veterinary Association has decided to ask the Kentucky State Racing Commission to sanction tho appointment of only graduate veterinarians as paddock judges on the Kentucky tracks. Jockey Harold Roberts, who was crushed beneath a horse at J. E. Wideners Lynnewood Farm races ou Thursday, died in the Jewish Hospital at Philadelphia Saturday of concussion of the brain. He was thirty-two years old and unmarried. E. C. Smith, who has arrived at Baltimore from Oklahoma, reports that the success of the recent meetings at Oklahoma City has encouraged the management to build a mile track, which will be completed in time for next springs meeting. Besides the horses of F. J. Pons, James S. Ever man will continue to train Governor Gray and County Tax for Capt. J. T. AVilliams. T. M. Green and Mack B. Eubanks, for D. N. Prewitt, and Stone Street for C. E. Hamilton. This will give Mr. Everman one of the largest stables in training in Kentucky. Tho baicials for the meeting at Marlboro next month will bo Joseph A. Murphy, presiding judge; James Milton, starter, Hart Dernham, racing secretary and A. N. Elrod, general manager. Six carloads of horses will leave Toronto for Marlboro at the conclusion of the Dulferin Park meeting today. Messenger Boy, which won the valuable Kentucky Endurance Stakes for Eugene Lutz at Churchill Downs Saturday, cost that owner 35. Mr. Lutz purchased the colt from R. F. Carman at a weeding out sale of the latters horses at Tampa, Fla., in the spring of 1910. Messenger Boy was bred by O. D. Wilson and was purchased by R. F. Carman as a yearling for .25. Among the old-timers who made the trip to Churchill Downs on Saturday to see the running of the Kentucky Endurance Stakes were Clem Crevel-ing, who came all the way from Los Angeles; W. A. Kirwan. J. H. Morris and F. A. Ilolton, of Forks of Elkhorn, Ky., on whose farm the great granddam of the -noted four-mile racer. Ten Broeek, was foaled. The palm for lnjing one of the best looking two-year-olds at Pimlico is by general consent awarded to the Sempronius filly. Belle Nelson, belonging to Thomas Fortune Ryan. This filly Is entered for the Walden Stakes, together with her stable companion, Dalngerfield. another magnificent looking youngster. Daingerfield is by Dolce Far Niente. now the property of Louis J. Williams, of Belair, to whom he wan presented by Fred Littlefield through the Maryland Breeding Bureau.
