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, i , NOTES OF THE TURF. There are no less than sixty-live jockeys at the Juarez track ready to accept mounts. Frank J. Goulds Cavero won the Prix Marc Antony at the Auteuil race track In France, Sunday. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr.s, Huetamo won the Prix Landelle, and Eugene Fiscbofs La Cachucha ran second for the Prix de Lento at the Saint Oneu races in France yesterday. Kel dOr. the Canadian colt that ran in this years Epsom Derby, has left trainer Peebles stable in England and lias boon sold, probably to become a country stallion, lie is still a maiden. William Stoops, who trained for John E. Madden and M. I". Dwyer in the late eighties, and for Sullivan and Kraus a few years ago, died of pneumonia at New York last week. Mr. Stoops was fifty-seven years old and was born in Washington, 1. 0., where he began life as a stable lad. Mr. Stoops left a widow and a daughter. Interment took place on Long Island. Clarence II. Mackay, a great student of thoroughbred breeding, personally decides upon the matings of his broodmares. He leases the racing qualities of such of his produce as he desires to keep for breeding to Mr. Charles Carroll, who lias developed some good lillies that will be returned to Mr. Mac-kays stud in France when raced enough to establish their quality. The repeated complaints of the inadequacy of tin? Doncaster race course, which is owned by the municipality, have at last had an elTcct. The Town Council, which has drawn a large revenue from it for years, and failed to make proper provision for the racing and the public, has awakened and is spending 50,000 in Improvements, which include a straight mile, running to the St. Leger starting post. The possibility that the Jockey Club might have the St. Leger run somewhere else than tlw Town Moor brought the Councillors to time. "Hidalgo," writing of the Wheatcroft shipment to Australia, says: "In that lot there was a stallion that was the finest big horse I ever saw, with the possible exception of Abercorn in Australia and Longfellow In the land of blue grass. I refer to St. Savin, and a more majestic horse I never saw. He had the marvelous back and loins of Nordonfalt. with such a finish of head and neck as the big son of Musket never knew. Some tieople said he reminded them of Persimmon, but that great horse had a trotting horses hind leg on him and the Saint I had not. I never expect to see his equal again, for I Longfellow and Abercorn are both dead."
