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NOTES OF THE TURF Capt W F Presgrave will ship eighteen of his horses to Montreal MontrealSonny Sonny I5oy and Salon have l een added to the schooling list at Churchill Downs DownsJ J E Madden has arranged to ship sixteen of his horses from Lexington to lEclmont Park ParkThe The Tulsa meeting will close on Thursday next instead of being extended until Saturday as it hail iKen previously announced announcedThe The horses of A J Goldsborough R T Wilson E 16 Cassatt and T F Ryan are expected at Bel mont Park within a day or two twoWord Word comes from Salt Lake city of the death of Dan Connelly one of the old school of Pacific coast trainers Pneumonia was the cause of death deathApplications Applications have been mado to Joseph McLennan the Ontario Jockey Club representative at Balti ¬ more for stabling for 300 horses whose owners want to race at Woodbine WoodbineF F R Hitchcock a steward of the Jockey Clnb has leased to the Oncck Stable the racing qualities of Sonel Francis PanAmerican Broom Sedge Flask Recession and Dakota for this year yearThe The present Churchill Downs meeting is charac ¬ terized by the management as the most successful in the history of racing at Louisville The attend ¬ ance is running 25 per cent ahead of the best previous showing showingIn In Melbourne Australia the intention of the Victoria Racing Club to charge for admission to the Hat is still productive of protests and the city council has joined with the Footscray Couijcil in objecting to the move moveThe The Western Australian Turf Club has decided that in future horses throe years and upwards will not be eligible for races under six furlongs and furthermore that no race for twoyearolds shall be less than five furlongs furlongsTrainer Trainer A G Blakeley who lias a public training stable which includes horses owned by a number of prominent American horsemen has arrived at Blue Bonnets with a string of twelve Included In these are Yenghec and Nonpareil owned by Thomas F Shcedy ShcedyTheres Theres no money In bookmaking nowadays we are repeatedly told Therefore it is reasonable to assume that it is merely to avoid being worried by further losses that various Sydney bookmakers legcr as well as paddock are taking trips to England Sydney Referee RefereeL L L Russell editor of the Thoroughbred Record from 1S92 to 1S95 and afterwards secretary of the Queen City Jockey Club died last week at Louis ¬ ville Ky where lie was following the vocation of optician He was born in Hustonville Ky in 1855 A cerebral hemorrhage was the cause of death deathIf If the mutuels prove successful in connection with the coming Electric Park meeting it is prob ¬ able that the other half mile tracks in the vicinity of Baltimore will conduct meetings Their owners have had the idea that racing could not be conducted profitably with the mntuels at the minor tracks tracksSoltano Soltano and Nightwatch rate as the best two yearolds in NewZealaml this season and opinions are divided as to which is the better Nightwatch is by Treadmill and Soltano by Soult As usual with so many successful Rice horses in that part of the world St Simon and Musket appear in the pedigree of each colt Things are In readiness for the opening of the Delorimier Park meeting at Montreal next Saturday The stalls are filling with horses ready to answer the call to the post The plant has l eeu renovated and overhauled The track has l een redressed which will eliminate the danger experienced in former years while starting Iiorses in heavy gonng Ed Cole will be the presiding judge judgeC C K G Billings is reported to have entered into a turf partnership with Frederick Johnson for the coming campaign on the New York race coursis lie has purchased a half interest in six horses according to report Lncle Jimmie His Nibs and Peg o My Heart will run in Air Billings colors while Mr Sniggs Heartbeat and Arrington will be curded in the name of Mr Johnson JohnsonTrainers Trainers itlying their trade at Woodbine yester ¬ day might have wished for such perfect equipment as it is to the good fortune of many trainers in France to have in their business At the establish ¬ ment presided over by Eugene Leigh for instance he sits aloft in a comfortable stand from which the whole triik can Ite observed and he gives orders to the riders by a series of semaphores sot up it the various poles and which are operated by the trainer from his stand There is no occasion for the Ixiys to watch across the track for a waving handkerchief or a hat in tho hand of an irate IMISS trying to make himself understood Toronto Globe
