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NOTES OF THE TURF There aro 2CS horses in training at Churchill Downs Louisville at the present time timeThe The horses of G M Johnson F Brown and S A Sotille have arrived at Lexington from Norfolk NorfolkAll All of the 570 stalls at the Kentucky Association grounds at Lexington have been filled or engaged for the coming meeting and Superintendent James P Ross has been forced to secure a number of out ¬ side stables to accommodate other horses that aro coming comingSilk Silk Hose owned by Sir Thomas Suaughnessy has dropped a colt foal by Oiseau at Toronto This i the second foal from Silk Hose the other now being a yearling lilly The mare will bo mated with Allowmaise this season seasonTrainer Trainer W M Wallace has announced that The Widow Moon will not be a starter in the Kentucky Derby She lias done everything asked of her In training this spring but trainer Wallace believes that the winning of the Kentucky Oaks is enough to ask of her herInvitations Invitations for subscriptions to the Astoria Stakes at Belmont Park have been sent out to the number of fifty They went to prominent horsemen in New York Pennsylvania and Virginia The Astoria is a dinner stake of five furlongs for fillies by invita ¬ tion It long was a sporting feature of the Brook ¬ lyn meeting Mrs diaries F Price is in receipt of a letter from Judge Price stating that at the time of writing he was In Berlin in company with Col M J Winn Having visited in Paris they will journey from Germany to England where they will lie in the midst of the spring racing season Tliej cxjiect to re ¬ turn to Louisville May G GThe The entire stable accommodation at the Saratoga race track was threatened with destruction by lire last Friday night The fire started in an outside stable and spread so rapidly that three long stables were consumed The three stables were owned by Charles Reed the veteran horseman contained about sixty stalls and were valued at between S000 and 10000 10000A A Ij Kirby lias returned to Cincinnati from Hot Springs where he sojourned for five months Most of the time he suffered with rheumatism i Jockey O Peak who is at Hot Springs told him lie would ride Floral Park in the Kentucky Oaks and would ride Jeochares in the Kentucky Derby if John W Schorr starts that horse Otherwise he will have the mount on Foundation FoundationUp Up to Saturday J Pelham Johnston secretary of the Kentucky State Racing Commission had received fortytwo applications for trainers and jockeys licenses six of which were for jockeys four for apprentices and the remainder for trainers In sending out blanks Secretary Johnston Instructed the owners and trainers to have them filled out and returned to his olliee by Saturday April ID but many of them have failed to do this He stated that it would work a hardship on the commission if they received a large number of applications at this last minute and that if too many of them came in on the last day it was probable that some would not secure licenses for the opening day of tlie racing racingConcerning Concerning conditions at Havre de Grace on the opening day a writer in tlie Baltimore News says Thirtylive books did a landoOice business As a kind of sop to Cerberus the slates were dispensed with and the layers seated 01 stools conducted business as they did in the latter days of New Yorlc and Benning Few of the old guard were in line and the faces generally were strange to an oldtimer There was one notable exception however Thit eminent bibliophile Sol Licthffusteln dean of the faculty occupied a stand at the end of the line and did business in a modest way quite in contrast to the old days when he set the pace for the ring and a squad of police was needed to keep tilt crowd In order around his book Sol appeaied much improved physically over his form of last year It may be that the return of racing to New York has put new life into his veins
