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NOTES OF THE TUEF. Jockey Eddie Tapliu will ride for E. II. Harris at Cocur ilAlene. Bnaat Qoldhlatt lias instructions to sell the mare IWttie U. for J. Lowrie at Juarez. Jotkey T. Koerner will ride ThniaillsTe Farms , best in the Kites Plate al Toronto. Jockey J. Moore has arrived at Leshsataa from Juarez and will remain there until after the spring meeting. J. Masterson will campaign Azo and Lotta Creed on the later Moaatala circuit, beginning with the Coeur dAlene meeting. A promising American-bred three-year-old in Eng-land is the bay colt Monotone, by Rock Sand — Lady Margaret, ewaed by August Belasoat. The horses of It. J. Austin, including Florence A.. Marie Hyde, and Braxton were shipped from Juarez to Coeur dAlene with the stable of E. II. Harris. Wade McLemore is planning to retire his great mare M adow to the stud next spring. He lias some idea of trying to arrange a mating for her with .Bock Sand. Eugene rischoTs Journalist won the Prix Amadou, a base of two miles, one and one-half furlongs. at the Am. nil Hack in France, Sunday. The tak. was valued at ,000. Prank Otis, who will race Crossover and Jim Caf-fernta at Churchill Downs this spring, was formerly a jockey. He rode for Barney Schr.ibor and the good horse Otis, which the Missouri breeder now has in the stud, was named for him. fJeorge M. OdOBl will have ten horses to send to Churchill Downs at the close of the Jeares meeting. Iheae include the two rear-olda laejaieta, Sumptuous, 1iei and Debutante, and the older racera Follie Levy. Fireman, Nimbus. Crowsfoot, Traveler and Tourist. The racing career of Stafford, the six-year-old bay gelding by Kilkerran -Wainamoinen, will soon end, the horse having been sold by J. Johnston at Juarez to J. Ovina. who will am him for saddle purposes. J. W. Young will dispose of Alma Boy lor similar use. At a recent meeting of the Marengo. N. S. .. Jockey Club, a rider was killed by a fall, and- all thiB owners cngag. d hi the principal handicap of th" day v. tthdrew their hois.-, on the condition that the stake went to swell the funds of a subscription list raised on the course for the lamily of the dead rider, who left eight children. The Hamilton Jockey Club will not abandon its tart tra.-k. Oram racing is an interesting feature i Hamiltons meetings, and the club appreciate* the r.-ict hat this variation ..f the regulation offering is all the more valuable because there is now no other club in America with a turf course in daily use during th" seaaoa, Henry McDaniel has about made up his mind to race la he far aeet this year and probably wjII ship bis string to the Coeur dAlene track at the conclusion of the Juarez meeting. Mr. McDaniel amy ■end Metier, NegUgee and Stout Heart to Churchill Dr.wns t-. till some of their two year-old stake on gagemenia but If he does he will entrust them to bum other trainer. Th.- c if r.iti..n naVlshl of Daaauter, Lug., are ill bad glace wilh the rate payers because if Ihe dilatoriness of the race committee in carrying out necessary tm| rovementa on the Town Moor cour.se. The Jockey Club has canceled the spring meeting for which dates in May wen- allotted, and the , duels of the city thus lace a direct loss of 55,000, besides th. far greater loss of business for tradesmen. Henry Spencer, better kaOWB as "Iff man" S] en- cer, once a celebrated Jockey, is seriously ill al his home In Oakland. Cal.. of tuberculosis. Physicians say lie will am live longer than tin r oar days Spencer was one of the hading jockeys of 1888 when he won his notable vieiory in the Futurity wilh James E. Keenes Chacornac. Spencer formerly rode at loo pounds. Today be weighs but eighty. Boa. George Laaahtoa t"ps the list of English trainers In Ibe number of horses in his charge He has tifty-niiio in his stables. Sain Darling fifty one. Butters. Joseph Cannoa and Sherwood llfiv each. A. J. Joyaer, the Whitney trainer, had fortv-foiir. ot which thirty-three are two vear olds, sired variously by Hamburg, Adam. Delhi. Voter, Burgo master. Ben Brush. Disguise, Peter Pan, Broomstick Bad Wat. rci ,ss. Hon. John S. Hendrie. having purchased the interest held in the Yalley Farm Stable by his brother. -• M. Hendrie, intends to race this year under his own name, with rlie family colors of brown and yellow. The stable consists of the good Oanadian-Imv.1 u inner Detiham: the Beet flllv Commola; Pow-derman, Rockaprtng, White. -ap. Pekisfco, LeOr, and the two-year-olds Geidaa Syrian and Brant The hoi es are non at the Valley Farm, but will soon be tnovc.l to the Hamilton track, where thev will *■ prepared tor the races by trainer Ed Why to. Very rarely now docs one hear ..f aay peculation in connection with the Derby, and this is the more remarkable, says The London Bportsmsn. seeing that no mo year. .hi stood out pre-eminently th best last season, and the issue looks open." I II admitting thai White star and Lomond appear nos-eaaued of the best credentials. Both these colts are reported as making satisfactory progress and happih th,. mischance which befell the first named when be trod on a stone and temporarily lamed blm-belf recently Braved a matter of little consequence.
