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NOTES OF THE TURF. Practically all of the horses now racing at Mexico City will be shipped to Juarez on November 27, the day following the close of the meeting in the capital city. A cablegram has been received at August Belmonts ollice from Baron Rothschild, instructing jockey Eddie Dugan. to leave today on the steamer Amerika for Hamburg. Dugan will spend the winter in Vienna and ride in the spring trials. The conditions of the contract call for Dugan to make 10S pounds, which lie can just about do. The private match race between Mrs. Helen nay AVhltneys Web Carter and John S. Turtons Tyosa, scheduled for Belmont Park Terminal last Friday, was postponed indefinitely. II. L. Bell, who is handling Tyosa and was to have ridden the horse, declined on the ground that the frozen condition of the turf might cause his mount to break down. C. L. Appietou, Web Carters rider, was ready, aiid eager to have the race decided. It was the late Mr. Sol AAhite, whose funeral took place at Windsor Wednesday, who put into the Ontario statutes the enactment making "ringing" a felony in this province. Though he died mayor of Cobalt, Mr. Arhito lived most of his life in AVindsor and was a member of the Ontario legislature for fifteen years. He was president of the AVindsor Driving Park Association, and a keen lover of a good horse. Mr. AArhites measure made It a penitentiary offense to enter or attempt to enter a horse in a race to which he was not eligible under the conditions, or to misrepresent his pedigree, age or record for that purpose. Toronto Globe.
