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NOTES OF THE TURF. JJy a change in English racing rules the minimum weight to .be carried is reduced to seventy pounds, put this applies only in races exclusively for apprentice riders. At Sandown Park, England, yesterday, James K. Keenes fast sprinter, Ruunymede. won the Temple Handicap of 300 sovereigns for three-year-olds and upward at five furlongs. Biter Bit finishing second and Beethoven third. Fourteen started. In The Paris nerald of October 4 appear some statistics of the season on the French turf. The laAl"S winning owner was Edmond Blanc, with 17,676; second on the list was the Marquis le Ganay, with 10,315; third came W. K. Vander bllt, with 05,053. Seventh on the list is Frank J. Gould with ,S07. Macdonald II. is the leading winning sire, with 53,810 to his credit.
