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NOTES OF THE TURF Illghbridgt fell at the tirst jinny in the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase Frank Brneii linancial manager of the Palmetto Park meeting s ent a few days at Lexington last week en route from Charleston to Louisville LouisvillePrevious Previous to Foundations sensational milo in 1 the lxst mile worked at Ixxingtoii this spring was 14 to the credit of Star Jasmine JasmineLittle Little II Wolf apprentice rider for T J HeaKy trainer of the U T Wilson stable has liren engagisl to ride one of tin Dymeiit starters In the Kings Plate at Woodbine WoodbinePeter Peter Clark who compiles tin form elrnrts on various frwestern tracks passed through Clncigi yesterday on route to Coonr dAIene from Louisvilli when lie lias been visiting relatives since the closi of the Juarez meeting meetingIt It is said that the racing on the Xew York trnkt beginning May 0 at Boimnnt Park Will take phiv on Tnesdays Thursdays and Saturdays It probably will be necessary to revise the Hunt Club dates lit ordir to avoid conlllct with the threedays a w is prognim at the l ig tracks Fred ReliborciT has lic gim the work of compiling programs for tin Belmont Park and Jamaica meetings meetingsThe The wager laid by the Insurance companies nt Lloyds that the Liverpool Grand National Stecpl cliast would ho run last Friday as scheduled was a winner They hot 100011 to SN10 that neither a national calamity nor a railway strike nor the ads oC suffragettes would necessitate a pOstpoiM meiit Tills traniictioii had no basis of probability or jiM meiit but for either party concerned was a matter of pure and unadulterated chance No one has y t undertaken to i oint out why it should IK described as business in contradistinction to the icrm gambling which would be applied to the net f betting that Covertcoat would not win the great event of crosscountry racing Toronto Globe