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NOTES OF THE TURF. Jockov I. McCarthy recently underwent an operation for appendicitis. Stanley Davis, who has been riding free lance In France, will accept mounts at Laurel. William Garth has the biggest string in training at Laurel, his stable being njade up of 35 horses belonging to various owners. Harry Giddings of Oakvillc, Ont.. has gone to England to attend a number of important sales of yearlings, with a view to making some purchases for his nicing establishment. James B. Ilaggin, whose condition had been reported as critical at Lexington, Ky.. where he is sojourning at Klmendorf Farm, is much improved and his physicians say that his complete recovery Is only a matter of a few days. The bodv of trainer John J. Ilyland. who died at Hoppegartcn track, Berlin, on September S, arrived at New York last Monday on the Kaiseriu Auguste Victoria and will be buried from his late home, Bin:! Avenue U. Brooklyn, today. At different times he trained the horses of August Belmont. C. It Fleischmann and other prominent American turfmen. He trained three Futurity winners and winners of other important races in this country. During the hist few years he had been training the string of Baron Oppenlieim in Berlin and last year finished second to the kaisers stable in winnings.
