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NOTES OF THE RUNNING TURF ABROAD ABROADKoine Koine further Improvements have been made In the Newmarket stands since the last October meetings The royal stand and boxes have been enlarged and now afford a good view of the paddock and weighing ln enclosure sir nolln the brother to Sir Martin one of the iinnlaced division behind Cylgad in the Fiftythird Biennial Stakes at the Newmarket Craven meeting rlis making his debut on an English race course nr the same rich chestnut color as his near relative in is a Tcry stylish colt Though running in blink ¬ ers he displayed much greenness Going to the imst he hung alwut so much that Maher had to kick him alone while in the race he never showed out of the ruck ruckThe The first Derby of the season the Italian Derby Realo 810000 one mile and a half was decided nt Rome Thursday April 11 There were seven runners and an exciting race ended in a dead beat lpivreon fiignor F Tesios pair Rembrandt Lang 1 anil and Salvator Rosa Jacobs which finished nlv a head in front of the Besnate Studs Alceo Dnvip with Sir Rholanda Makufa Blackburn a length away fourth Signor Tesio subsequently elected to walk over with Rembrandt which thus became the winner His owner who won the Derby only last year with Guido Reni is a young breeder who has formed a stud of excellent broodmares broodmaresKing King Georges Stable was in good form at the Newmarket Craven meeting and placed two accept ¬ able races to his credit Wednesday April n his threevearold chestnut colt Plntadeau by Florizel Guinea Hen defeated Orchestrion Kosciusko and seven other threeyearolds In the Wood DItton Stakes nt a mile The next day his bay colt Thrace bv Thrush Loadarnla was victorious In the Three learOJd Handicap over the Dewhnrst Plate course of seveneighths of a mile defeating the crack filly Enfroaina which last year beat Kemplon Le Tou quet was third and the AnicrlcanJ red Blarney Stono and Havelock were among the unplaced ones Twentyone threeyearolds started and Thraces per ¬ formance was distinctly a good one oneSir Sir Martin was not a starter In the City and Sub ¬ urban Handicap for which he had been heavily backed in the antepost betting After an exception ¬ ally good gallop of a mile and a half with Danny Maher up he fell lame and was nt once scratched from the race It was at first feared he had broken down but It turned out that he had only twisted an ankle without serious Injury and in two gallops at five furlongs April 19 he went soundly and may be able to go to the post in the 15000 Great Jubilee Handicap at Kernptou Park May 11 The distance IK a mile and a quarter and his weight 123 pounds Those handicapped to carry more are Hornets Beauty 129 and Whisk Broom 125 Other American candidates are J R ICecnes Castleton 110 pounds A Belmonts Merry Task 109 and L Winans Adam Bede 95 and The Spy 84 Sol Joel was not at Lincoln to witness the handi ¬ cap success of Long Set but ho was at Newbury to see him win another good race Long Set when the property of the Comte de Fels who bred and raced him In France was considered of a totally different class in fact as a threeyearold he was a handlcappcr of some distinction until he was stumped up on the hard ground Fearing that his lost action might never return he was sent to the French Tattersalls and knocked down to Colouol Percy for lCOO guineas in whose name and colors he brought off a big gamble in a selling race at Lincoln two years ago It was then that Harry Batho took the risk f buying him on behalf of Sol Joel What an amazing bargain was then made ha heen shown by the horses victories in the Cam bridgeshire the Lincolnshire Handicap and u the lno Newbury Spring Cup
