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NOTES OF THE TURF. Alma Boy is recovering from a threatened attack of blood poisoning at Juarez. A. L. Austin lias named his AJbula — Miss Freda two-year-old colt Bill Fiun out of compliment to W. W. Finn, a well known promotor of western racing. The adverse vote on the proposed amendments to tin- I.ri kmann tstiorne anti-betting bill in the lower house of the South Carolina legislature was 85 to 25. G. M. Odoms two-year-old brother to Red River has been on the sick list for the past week and his owner now is dubious of having him ready to race st any time during the present Juarez meeting. It is reported that Kentucky breeders are preparing a petition to preseut to the racing associations at Juarez and Charleston, asking them to add to their programs one more race each day for two-year-olds. Bourlxin Bean cost T. Collins ,000 as a yearling. Mr. Collins is a resident of New Jersey and has s iine idea of engaging in the breeding of thoroughbreds iu Texas, with Bouehou Beau at the head of his proposed stud. Owing to a new rule which has been put in force at Charleston, the newspaper correspondents who have been sending summaries after each race to tioir papers will have to hold them back twenty minutes before they can be sent. I". T. Wood, the Texas turfman, whose string of horses, including the smart t .vo year-old Palatable. has l»een racing at Juarez in charge of trainer F. L. Gardner, has been confined to his home all winter with sieknraa, but hopes to be able to go to Juarez shortly lor the rest of the meeting. Harry La Montagne. whose Merry Knight. Martinez and others raced with marked success in France la-i season, will purchase a few more American horses of the type suitable for racing through the field in that country. Mr. La Montagnes stable is quartered at Mai*ons Laffltte in charge of Preston Burch. Lieutenant Tate of the Fifteenth Cavalry is the owner of a half brother to Superstition, which he will prepare for the army races, to be run at the hunt meetings this year. The horse is a chestnut five year-old sou of Mastefman — Kvangeline Cisner-os. He has never been in actual training nor has he been named. Deferring to the shipment of thoroughbreds sent by Irving II. Whentcroft to Australia, a writer in the Sydney Referee says: "For my own part. I doubt whether Americans will find Australia a good market Tor stallions. We are well supplied as it is. and the chances are hose of our breeders prepared to I.ii :i good price for a stallion would sooner pur-cnase direct front England than buy any horse that La- ulr adv beea freely used in some other country."
