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NOTES OF THE TURF. W. at. Murray will spend the rest of the winter a: Charleston. Im mil Jockey Sammy Graeaandd is about to leave New 1orfc for Juan ■/.. i.dniu Gaylord of Beaver has annoumeil bis Intention of selling the entire stable he is racing at .1 ii.ne/. at public auction. tvriward Bensbaa of HonkiasvUle, Ky.. has claimed the name Holly Wreath for his two-year-old chestnut cull b SleeHck — Yaletrea, li c Cottle, who trained John Griffin II. when that horse showed good form . n various western tracks, ;- non a strecl car coadactor In B Paso. iiank Irons, booka-akers" den and formerly manager of various poolrooms in Texan, died at Wesiev hospital In Oklahoma City Saturday after , short Illness. For the past two years be had been , mneeted with Oates and Ketsel of Oklahoma tiiy. Captain Elliott, of tbe qaartt rata stars depart-nient of the army, I* one turfman who will ix- lost to tbe amateur sport in the east daring the coming sea Captain Elliott has been detailed to a nea p , i and as ■ lesuli be has old out his thoroughbreds. th purchasers being fellow officers, so that the horses will not be tost to military racing. B Carslake, the Anglo-Australian jockey, who baa been one of the leading riders in Austria for several seasons, has a retainer of 2,000 a year fi Barun Springer, besides 5 for each winning mount and. hall that sum for each losing mount. Carslake gays tbe horses in Austria are good stayers, but as sprinters arc twenty-eight pounds inferior to those in England. Mrs. Charles S. l.ittlelield died last week in her s rent third year at Sbeepshead Bay. Her husband, formerly a Jockey, trained and owned many turf star- and i~ sijll sturdy. His most recent activity was the training of ■ string of horses for i. B. Haggin. with whom he was long connected. Fred i.itiieiicld. a son, distinguished himself as a Jockey and he i- now in Virginia with a string of thorough-. of his own. Harry Littlefield. another son. w o; several - asona trained the string of thor r iioghbreds raced i Juntph E. Seagram, the foremost • i Canadian turfmen.
