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NOTES OF THE TURF A L HassardShort a New York hnndicapper and turf writer committed suicide yesterday by in linling gas He was 17 years of age ageClarence Clarence II Mackay lias presented his famous Mallion Baiiastar to Squadron C farm in New York for breeding purposes Banastars greatest turf Iriumph was scored in the Brooklyn Handicap if lthl when Danny Maher got him to the finish in front of Lanky Boh and Filigrane It was Bnnastar that was left at the in st in a subsequent Kiiliiirhnn after an hour of disorderly conduct for which Malier received a sns ension ensiondipt dipt W F 1resgrave one of Marylands leading Iorstinen sat in the Iimlico Club ollice and com jiiented on the horses stabled at the track He said There are many twoyearolds stabled liere Tinre are also a nnmlier at Lexington Ky The iiuantltiv would lead one lo believe that thorough llred breeding was again in flowttr Such is not the ise The collection of the youngsters at the only two points where they can be tried out makes it iniMir PO If there was racing at other courses the vonugslors would be spread altout instead of be in concentrated and the showing on the two courses would not be so great numerically Baltimore Sun
