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NOTES OF THE TURF FROM LANDS ABROAD Pretty Polly foaled a bay colt by Spearmint on March S and will visit Desmond DesmondThe The crack jockey Walter Griggs is engaged to l e married to Florence daughter of Fred Rickaby RickabyKlizabetta Klizabetta winner of tho Chester Cup and North ¬ umberland Plate has foaled a bay colt by Tprpoint TprpointPrince Prince IlohenloheOchriiigcn has secured second call on the services in AustriaHungary of C Trigg Baron A de Rothschilds jocsey jocseyMr Mr George Fabers colors used to be white and yellow collar but have been altered to lilac orange sleeves and scarlet cap which were blooded for the first time at Birmingham on Deunison DeunisonMiss Miss Evelyn Taylor the wellknown comedienne and owner of Closewood Beck has at present six liorses ill training with Cotcheifer at Malton which number will be greatly increased during the next few weeks for now that her colors have been carried to victory she intends to race on a larger scale scaleDuring During the season which has just closed in Cal ¬ cutta Mr R Craig McKerrow headed the list of winniug owners with 10353 more than 5000 ahead of the second winning owner J D Scott was the whining trainer with fifteen successes and J Davis the leading jockey with twelve firsts twelve seconds and nine thirds Jut of sixtysix mounts mountsMr Mr W Jarvis Jr led in several winners for his patrons last season but Vitchery by Ormondale ISasia the winner of the Glen Selling Plale at Leicester March 27 is owned by him Tho Ameri ¬ canbred filly which lie picked up cheaply at the July sales last year Is the first animal to run for him and it is pleasing to record a success for this beginner beginnerMr Mr Reid Walker has had remarkably good lurk this season with his mares at the stud and already he has five fillies and five colts among them being several by Dinueford as well as a filly by Flotsam a colt by Louviers a lilly by Sunder out of Bcl tenehrosa dam of Duke Michael Belted Earl and Bel ford a colt by The White Knight a filly by Spearmint and a colt by Torpoint TorpointThe The speedy filly Throsga met with a curious acci ¬ dent at Newmarket recently She was on tho way to thetrainiug ground on the Race Side one morning when a Uorse fell over the tenace into the road in front of her Much frightened by the accident Throsga sidestepped across the road fell and cut her lip so badly that it had to be stitched up The filly Js all right again after her narrow escape from serious accident accidentMr Mr C Koldcr the American sportsman lias over a dozen twoyearolds in J Butters stable at Xew uiarket and it augurs well for them that the first horse to carry his jopper and greensleeved jacket here should have caught the judges eye This was Specdyfoot the winner of the Corporation Plate March 2 A charming lengthy filly she seems gifted with wonderful enduring powers as after having to plough her way through a sea of mud and having quite a sharp rally with the welltried Wild Arum she came back to the unsaddling enclosure as dry as she went out London Sporting Life
