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- I - I [ i ; NOTES OF THE TURF. Jockey J. Deavenaort is reported -ick with typh i I fever at El Paso. It is said that there an- many jockeys of tic poorer nort at Jnarea who have not yet had a bmmuiI this winter. II. Oiddings has retired his Efasgs Plate winner. St. Lass, to the stud at his Cedar Grove Sto k Farm, Oakville, Out. W. U. NorveH, who i- convalescing from a sever attack of erysipelas at El Paso, plan- to go t . Hoi Springs about February 1. Letters from turfmen at Juarea beat out th.- r--■ ports previously printed to the effeel that the present Juarez meeting is prospering. These letters Ie dare ihe attendance to he wonderfully good in nl! of lather dim patronage by El La-,, people. The bulk of the patronage Is furnished by visitors ii traded from all over tin- country by Ihe racing and tin- volume of betting i- of large proportions. The layei . win. pay sj.limi daily for the ring inrivilea**. ■jrree. thai they have the opportunity of handling all ih.- money | in -an- to R. Craig-McEerrows Vieto won the Calcutta Plate isix furlonusi mi December 2-1, and being snl to iln- [...si again on Boxing Daj for tin- Cnoch Behar Cup lone mile and a quarter, won the same in record too.-. It will be remembered that on Ihe --ana course la-, y.-a: Vi.to won the Metropolitan, tin- best six-furlongs sprint of the east, ami the Prince of Wales Plate. Hie mare ha- evidently rontlnned to Improve in India, ami inu-t have .-n hawed her value considerably, she is by Victory mil ..I Muriel IL. and evidently is bred lo ■_" fast a- well as to stay.
