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, NOTES OF THE TURF. •. V.. Phillips has purchased Southern Shore Iron. .1. Odcll. Jockey Korsyths engageaaeats are now- beiag nutde bj I.. -Ilhii. W. 1!. Eagstrom, the well known western layer, is plannini; to boat at Norfolk. The South Carolina legislature has adjourned without having taken action on the bill for a .-lam raciag eonHBiaaioB. Al Henry of Montrenl will visit Kentnelcy shortly iu search of two-year-old racing material. Be is nine at Charleston. W. G. Vaake i- njanaing to ship the Applegate horaea to Churchill Downs before the Juares meet bag comes to a cJoae. The Jockey cluh ha- granted iis approval to the races on the gal of the Piping Rock Raciag A--o eiatioal on .lone •". f and 7. Dr. s. i.. Kilmer, oi Biagbaaaptoa, N Y . who owns the stallions Iink o.il and Captain John, was a reeeat isiior at Palmetto Park. Irving ir. Wliealcrofl left s.Minny. AastraMa. on Ichiitary _ ! on his return trip to Atimriea. around the world, and expects •■ roach Liudoii. Rag . alxiut May 1. Tin- great stallion Ballot, which has ju-t arrived at John K. Madh-ns Hamburg Place, mar Lexing ton. Ky.. from Ragtaatl, is gentle and oi even dls l».-il imi. with no had hahit-. John K. Madi.u added 243 ai res to Haarbarg Place ■I. i Lexiagtoa, Ky., li-i week. IU purchoaed the l:ind from Mrs. Birdie o. Grata for 3,730 and other valuable considerations. The lirst foal of the M-as.m reported in the Province of Quebec i.- one by Floral Kins out oi Rythm. This autre i- owaed by A. R. OgBvie. and the foal wa- dropped at his farm at. carrtiervflle. Tickets to ra.i- tracks may he revoked and tin holder refused adinis-iou with onl a remedy of slicing for damages. Tim Culted State- Supreme Court so h.hi yesterdaj in the Joseph Maeroae case. II has dclUiilelv been deeiihil that the .In.uez meetiag will not he extended beyond Sunday. March il. the date recently et by tile director* for it-close. The Interest la the aaaetrag is heins aas tained wonderfully well. The Court of Appeal- may BOl consider the Shane .i-e appeal »■ aearlj n year, ti was -aid yesterdaj hut meanwhile the racing interests have been advised that they can go ahead under ;he inline of the Appellate Division.- New York Sun. Eugene El rod i- arranging far the departure at a special train from Jnarea Starch "_■" foe UMlsville. Ivy. I will run in two section- and will accommo dale all owner- who desire to -hi" i.. Kentucky. Pullmans tm the accommodation of owners, jockeys and others will he attached. R, l . Car-.ti-. owner "! Harwood, i- only twenty luce years of age. Iln- horse .- named after the hirthpta f his owner in lloiida and m-i him 0 a- a yearling al the Lexington auction -ah-. Mr Parsons a- toriuerli a grandstand pommlssionei at Douglas Park and Churchill Down-. It wa- brought "in during the recenl Coaarl bear , i_ .oi the petition of the Harford Mechanical Pait .- eiation I ha I stock in the new track i"t which date- are aonghl i- held a- follow-: E. J. MeCraw. sai.Kio- William .ahton. 0,000; 1 ..ni- N. ..-tz. 000: i Herfird. s-J.".. iMi: c. o. Smith. s_o..hiii. ; . |. Warner. $.".. kio. Samuel s". Molinan. who has been "ti an extended trio to -..iithein race uaiks in the Intores - of llorval I. ni.. iln Den raciag plant al Montreal has returned i" that in with many nea ideas that Will he Worked olll ill the eoll-t IIKl i. .11 of tin- plant. He will fashion the grandstand ami paddock after Douglas Park, al liWifirrillc. He announces that the major it ••! the itork ha- been subscribed ami that work will h 1 ..111111. nie.l a- -..on a- the sbom diaap |H- tt-S lot tbongfa Mereittio Ml- Romeo that "hi- wits run the nildgoose chaae." ami Mi. Ben Johnson talk- iIiiiui a "steeple race," -ays a writer in "Land and Wal.r." s.ei|ilecha ■■ im. may fi.ilv be -aid |.. lake it- origb from those matches across countrj between buatbts mea which took place in the latter part "! tm pigbteenth eentvtry. Tin -.■ were tun over long di-tan.e-. -i. eight or even imne miles being covered, and sometimes the corapetitora did not -.-. each other for many miles. Although Harry W. smith i- hunting In Rngland there will he a ■porfsatena dinner at ea | rk again this spring. Pot the pant two rears Mr. Smith has heel the Wirt lag siiitit in an annual gain- eriug of aportaaaea, who in any fashion depended hpoa the beret lor then- entertainment. Theee din iters have been held in New Vork and on each occasion hroiight together a notable gathering of overs of ih.- horse iioin the four corners of the earth. .he dinner tTtis y. ;fr ivtlt He In Id al W.i-hingto,i. and probably during tin- Washington Hiding and Hunt race meeting, at Hie old Kenning race course ii May. The i egistratioii of i lioroiighlued foal- for 1011 in America -how- a startling tailing iff from I01O, and brings the breeding Industrj to it- lowest ebb. There were ".imi fewer registrations than tor iln- foals ot 1910 ami the difference amounts to a decrease of ahum _.". per-cent. It has been known lor a long lime thai Hie breeding of thoroughbred hornet was seriously menaced by the anti-racing law- iu New-York slate, hut the falling off in production was hardly though! to have been as serious over a year that in itself showed a big decrease iu production. .1. O. Reese is one of those who are niiirli elated over the return to America of the -tallion. Ballot. from KBgiaad He U a great admirer of this great race horse. Ho states that two yean ago the imperial manager of thoroughbred breeding in Russia wrote him asking his opinion a- to tin- best American stallion to succeed Galtee Mor. the great Kngli-h horse, which had died at the head of the Russian Imperial stud, and he answered Ballot. In return he was requested to get a price on Ballot and was informed by the late .lames it. Keene that lie woifld not take le-s than SIOO.IKK for the hoise.
