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NOTES OF THE TURF The Scottish Derby a 4000 race run at Ayr was won by L NeumannVs Jaeger C Cochel IB planning to dispose of Island Queen tb only racer lie has in training now that Forehead has been gelded and turned our ourTonl Tonl owned by W K Variderbllt won the Prix du Reservoir of 300 francs for twoyearolds at Sainf Cloud In France Monday Eight other horses ran the distance being 1400 meters Jockey ONeill rode the winner Charles Schumacher fifty five years old was found dead in an alley at St Louis Sunday morning He was at one time a racing owner and was well known during the racing days nt the old Fair Grounds Souio years ago he met with sin accident which crippled him himH H P Whitney wou two races nt the recent Yar ¬ mouth meeting in England wilh Stung Again arid lie la ton Th former is by Voter Mosquito Bala ¬ ton la a threeyearold by Burgomaster Ballyhoo and evidently was not highly valued Entered to be sold for 250 he changed owners at 800 going to a Mr Herz HerzThe The amount or money spent by Mr Whitney is enormous and It must always IK our fervent hope that he will continue to race in this country We couldnt do without him very well By the way nothing more has been heard of his reported elec ¬ tion to membership iu the Jockey Club It would IKJ a step inor acclaimed than anything ever done by that iHtdy1 London Standard StandardWork Work on the proposed new threequarter mile race track at Cote St Michel near Montreal is not nearly so far advanced as was indicated by previous reports In fAct work has not yet been started on the plant and it is still a tossup whether it ever will be This proposition is backed by the interests which formerly controlled Delorimier Park Thirty acres of land were purchased nt Cote St Michel but hat is all the progress that has been made and prices for the neighboring land have gone mt of reach reachThe The amount of silver coins which were handled last week at Domaster In connection witii the four days racing the silver takings of the Corporation turned the scales at one ton and 418 pounds The whole of these coins had to be handled and care ¬ fully counted There were loss than a dozen bud coins The receipts of the Doncaster Corporation Train ways for the four race days although not a record were iu excess of last year Altogether 1043Gt5 passengers were carried to an from lie course London Sportsman SportsmanThe The latitude allowed in the matter of claiming horses iu selling races under the Canadian rules has been little abused during the two seasons in which it has been in effect Some of the claims though at Woodbine were so apparently friendly that the rule will pobably be strengthened next year This can be accomplished by the adoption of the provision in force in Kentucky that a horse claimed and found in the possession or charge of the original owner in tho next sixty days will not be eligible to race Toronto GIol e CLOSE FINISHES AT HILLCREST Toronto Ont October 2 Favorites and second choices were successful in the majority of the eight races at Hillcrest Park this afternoon The racing was featured by several close and exciting finishes The judges only could separate True Step and Floridas Beauty in the fourth race Jockey Dreyer came into the spotlight by piloting three winners winnersGeorge George J Day furnished two of the winners in Boray and Frog the latter winning the eighth and feature race in a canter canterScarlet Scarlet Pimpernel was the medium of a heavy plunge and came from a long way back in the stretch to win the seventD Jockey Carroll per ¬ formed a circus stunt on Mother in the second His mount stumbled while rounding the first bend and he was thrown completely out of the saddle but scrambled aboard again and was only beaten half a length for third money The moneyThe promising lightweight jockey Frank Adams ubo has ridden with success on the Canadian tracks this summer left here tonight to ride at Laurel LaurelEugeno Eugeno Lutz has released jockey A Hanover and the boy is riding here as a free lance lanceJockey Jockey C White was fined 15 by starter Murray for disobedience at the post
