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NOTES OF THE TURF Muster Hubert is tho sire of a fine colt foaled by It II Davis mure Desirous at Charles Kohlers stock farm Ramapo last week weekHearing Hearing of II 1 Browns application for an In ¬ junction against the Jockey Club has been postponed to May 2 by agreement ol counsel counselJockey Jockey W Knapp lias signed a contract to ride for Robert Davics and lias left Havre du Grace to report to the stable trainer at Toronto TorontoAt At the meeting of the Washington Racing and Hunt Club which will bo held May 22 24 and 20 it has been decided to make the military test race seventeen miles milesTen Ten Points victory of Saturday at Havre de Grace has had the effect of further reducing the odds obtainable Against him in the future book at Louis ¬ ville and he is now a strong second choice at 3 to 1 while Hawthorn remains favorite at 1 to 1 1Capt Capt T If Viley sustained quite1 a loss recently in the death of his good mare Miss Kinney diim of Belle Kinney and Arrow Svift by George Kinney out of Stiletto by War Dance The mare died shortly after having a foal which also died by Peter Quince QuinceOwing Owing to the generous subscription of the Ontario Jockey Club the directors of the Canadian Na ¬ tional Horse Show at Toronto have IKJCII enabled to increase the value of the prizes in the thoroughbred stallion class The prizes will now be as follows First 125 second 75 third 50 and fourth 25 25L L N K C Miller of Wymore Neb will ship their horses to Louisville for spring racing in charge of James Estep and George Miller as fol ¬ lows Ira K eh h li by Don de Orn Throstle Jack Combs eh h 7 by Jack Ioint May Combs Frilled and Fancy b h 7 by Watercolor Wide ¬ awake Goldllight oh ui 7 by Goldcrest Brides tlight tlightGene Gene Elrod has provided 700000 parimutuel tick ¬ ets for the various races to be decided at Lexing ¬ ton Of course this is more than is really neces ¬ sary but in order to be on the safe side Mr Elrod linds it advisable to anticipate on a large scale lie has received from hi brother Arthur N Elrod a request to send him fifteen parimutuel machines to be used at Baltimore by the Electric Park Rac ¬ ing Association which will conduct a sixdays meet ing there beginning May 21 21Sol Sol Lichteustein who was one of the best known bookmakers on the New York race tracks in the days before the antiracing laws were passed and who then became a buyer of rare books is named as a defendant in a suit in which the plaintiff says he was induced to buy a collection of books repre ¬ sented to be worth 125000 which were valued at not over 10000 The plaintiff is Harry M Leveng ston who is suing for 20000 the difference lw tween 3t000 which lie paid for the books and 10000 the actual value valueThe The quaint old home of the Turf and Field Club on Long Island will once more be thrown open to its members with the resumption of racing at Bel mont P irk At a meeting of the board of governors those present being Messrs F K Stnrgis II K Knapp F It Hitchcock T Searle Barclay Jr I awreiice L Gillespie H S Page Madison Grant J G Livingston Winthorp Burr and Francis II Appleton Messrs Edward F Whitney Tyler Morse Keno M La Montague and Henry T Fleitman were elected members of the club clubThe The eastern amateur racing season opened Satur ¬ day under sunny skies at the picturesque Hewlett Bay Park course It was the annual steeplechase meeting of the Rockaway Hunting Club Many prominent society people were among the 2000 per ¬ sons present and their machines tilled the parking space at the side of the track until they were many lines deep It was a lively picture and those who had motored from New York and all parts of Long Island to take in the races seemed thoroughly satis ¬ fied with the days sport Layers aplenty were present and there was no obstacle in the way of backing any horse one liked according to newspaper reports reportsSam Sam Hildrcth is winning many races In France but a Paris letter says he is uot wagering any more The Ilildreth campaign in Canada his last season on this side of the Atlantic was a disastrous one from a betting standpoint and though his horses earned a good deal of money w was a loser to the amount of about 3 000 by the end of the second Hamilton meeting after which lie had a sale and abandoned racing on this continent Mr Kolder bought the best of the Ilildreth horses and sent them abroad with him as trainer and there is no more skilful man in the business Ilildreth is not the lirst man who has found that while backing horses whether ones own or anothers may afford some entertainment and frequently prolit it is ratlier precarious as a means of livelihood Toronto Globe
