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NOTES OF THE TURF. Alfred V. has been gelded and turned out for the winter. The body of the late J. .T. Burke was interred in St, Johns Cemetery, on Long Island. AV. II Fizer is counting on buying three yearlings to take to Juarez with his older racers. It. ,T. Mackenzie has several yearlings in California that will be developed for next seasons racing. Abednego bowed a tendon recently and probably will be left in Kentucky when AAr. J. AAcber takes his horses to Juarez. W. G. Yanke has purchased Col. W. E. Apple-gates interest ih Round the AVorld and has booked the mare to Uncle for 1914. Ponkatasset, the property of E. Lutz, broke a leg after getting loose from her box at Duffenn Park last week and was destroyed. Repentant, which won the Harbor Hill Cup at Piping Rock Saturday, was presented to Miss Emily Randolph, of Philadelphia, by Francis R. Hitchcock as a birthday gift. Oscar Lewisohn, husband of Edna May, former comic opera star, has leased u residence at Newmarket. Eng., and bought a colt at Tattersalls sales there the past week for ,410. W. J. Burckholder lias purchased from P. .T. Millet the chestnut two-year-old filly, Lady Bountiful, and has turned her out until next February at a farm near Newcastle. Ky. This filly is a half sister to the brilliant Cottontown. The Latonia Jockey Club is the only racing organization in Kentucky which has never failed to hold an autumn meeting since the opening of that track in the spring of 1SS3. It has held spring and fall meetings each year ever since. General Manager Hacbmcister lias erected a big board in the infield on which are displayed the prices the winning tickets pay. The board is eighteen feet long and seven feet high, and the figures written on it can easily be seen from any part of the track. J. I. Smith, trainer for H. H. Hewitt, of New-York, has several promising yearlings at the Lexington track. The Peter Pan Coy Maid filly, with 115 pounds up. and the Cnuard Inspiration filly, have worked a quarter better than 23. Mr. Smith entered them for the Saratoga stakes which closed recently. James Griffin, if he succeeds in disposing of several old horses he now has in training before the Latonia meeting closes, will do no winter racing this season, but will busy himself in developing a number of promising two-year-olds that he will have under his care. "His Illinois partner. James McCullough, has disposed of none of his yearlings this season and all of his band will be in Griffins care. Some of these are already at Douglas Park and others will be shipped there early next month. The fast four-year-old bay gelding Three Links, by Oddfellow Fairy Dell, succumbed to pneumonia ait Churchill Downs after T. P. Hayes, his owner, shipped the rest of his stable to Latonia last week. Three Links racing record is as follows: Year. Age. Sts. 1st. 2d. 3d. Uup. Won. 1911 2 20 5 7.0 S ,000 1912 3 2S 8 S 0 0 3,170 1913 4 12 3 3 2 4 1,280 Totals 3 GO 10 IS 8 18 ,002
