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NOTES OF THE TURF. C. D. Coyle has shipped ten horses from Belmont Park to Dallas. Most of them were purchased from August Belmont. The Prix de Seine-et-Oise, or S4.000. distance seven furlongs, run at Maisons Latlitte, in Franco. Tuesday, was won by W. K. Vanderbilts Montrose II. Frank J. Goulds Jnrretiere. finished second. It is .estimated that there are 4,000 horses in training at Newmarket, but a selling race for three-year-olds and upwards which closed on Tuesday night only attracted three entries, while the event resulted in a walkover for Blackstone. London Sportsman. Ten carloads of the horses that raced at Dufferiu Park last week will go to Laurel, while others will 1k shipped direct to Juarez to await the opening of winter racing. The horses of T. II. Stevens, J. Cannon and P. Delaney will go Into winter quarters at Montreal. Phil Dwyer, president of the Brooklyn Jockey Club, is quoted as saying that lie will advise the stockholders, at a meeting to be held tomorrow; to sell the Gravesond track for building purposes. The property has become exceedingly valuable for such development. Russian Government horse-buyers do not agree with the Northwestern Senator who once told a Parliamentary Committee that racing did not add to the value of horses, and that he could select the best without the aid of the race-course test. They bought, the Calgary stallion. General II.. 2:04 :M. at a high price because he had those figures attached to his name. AAithout that certificate they would have passed him by. Toronto .Globe.
