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NOTES OF THE TURF. The body of former jockey W. J. Nnrvaez, who commit led suicide at Juarez Sunday, has been forward -d Io California for burial. A disappointment ■in a love affair is said to have I. ecu responsible far Narvai 7. rash act. Charles Kohter is on his way baaae from England. lie is represented as being anxious to ovem tbe disinclination m Samnel i . HlMreth, whose racing stable lu- purchased, to bike charge of his horsea in Bngmnd. Httdretha application for a training license i- siiil pending before the English Jockey Club. The business ssen of Salt Lake City appear to be highly appreciative of the benefit to be derived from a race meeting. Press dispatches represent them as being aggrieved over the assignment of spring dales to the Coeur iFAIene track and tile deferring of the proposed meeting at Lagoon until fall in the interest of a better arrangement of dales on the lute.- Mountain circuit. There i- "pate talk that they may try to arrange an independent spring meeting for Sail Lake City to begin in late April or .ally May and continue for tifly days. The sportsmans Steeplechase Dinner stakes, a private sweepstakes, at three miles over the regulation coarse, to be run during the spring meeting of the United Hunt- Baeing Association at Belmont Bark Terminal June «. and s.. has just closed with twenty subscribers without possible entries from American cross-country owners now aliroad. i i subscribers include Joseph E. Widener. Clareii.e II. Bobbins. II. A. Bourne, F. Ambrose Clark, Allan Plnkerton, "Mr. McMurtrie.* II. K. Vingut, George 1. Widener, Jr.. August Belmont, "Mr. Cbetlaod." II. s. Page. Miss ChamMet," Mrs. Payne Whitney. Thomas White. I:. B. Lewis. F. B. Huns.-v. Charles Pftser, Peter Hauck, Jr.. Clarence Moore and ll. L. Bell. A remarkable organization is the Oukaparinga Jockey Club, a South Australian club, which has been in exiatence for thirty-els years, operating oa only one day in the year. Last.:- Monday. Yet ii is noi an Insignificant Institution, by any means, and some Interesting statistics were quoted al the Hint annual meeting. Taking tbe liuun-s tor tin-last twenty three years since tin- totallaator was introduced it had disbursed S5HL255. Of this sum 54,600 had been paid in stake-; the Improve-. meats and npkeep of the course had cost 7.21... and 35,435 had been spent in wages. Charities had benefited io the extent of 1,790, and Iii.- government had been paid 4,000 a- stamp tai nine years only. This year tin- dab is offering 3,750 for -even races. The club is staking improvements lo the extent of 0,000 and will carry forward a balance of about ,000. German racing has of late appealed to French owners, Bays a European correspondent, for the mark.-t in that country has been widely opened to French produce. The Prussian Stat.- Badge baa jn-t been voted, and contains a provision thai every Iwo veai-. a liist .la-- sire should be bo light for the service of the state and private owners possessing a thoroughbred stud. The price to be given for such a suitable sire is ii,ii at 5,000, and each year half of that amount will be handed over to the government buyers. A further grant of 0,000 bain ■ n made for securing a u I thoroughbred -in- for the hall bred stud, while another 5,000 bain .-n placed at the disposal of the Royal Gradita Stud for the purchase of a couple of lw Imares. It is understood that his -rant will be continuous, sn that the ■ Ifferenl -train- of racing IiIikhI may atinnall] renewed.
