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NOTES OF THE TURF. Charles W. Moore, of Mere Hill Stud, has sold to II. K. Knapp the chestnut yearling colt by McGee Ida Harrison. The innovation of a fifty-cent field in connection with the Meadow Brook Steeplechase Associations meeting at Belmont Park Terminal last Saturday, failed to attract any considerable amount of patronage. , The minimum purse fOr the Australian Jockey Clubs recent spring meeting at Randwick . was ,000. The added money for the four days of the meeting amounted to 38,000. There was a 25,000 Derby. The invention of a New Zealander in the shape of a patent weighing machine has been installed at the Randwick track in Australia for the benefit of the jockeys. The rider sits in a swinging chair, which pulls down a lever working an arrow, the point of which shows the weight. The machine" has been Installed in the jockeys room. The Russian Ambassador, M. Bahkmatleff, and his wife, were guests of Capt. and Mrs. E. B. Cassatt, of Philadelphia, at the opening of the Pimlico meeting Saturday. Regret was expressed that William M. Manly, orcsl.lent of the Maryland Jockey Club, could not be present. He is still too 111 to leave his bed. although the pneumonia from which he has been suffering is fast disappearing. Trouble arose at a ri-cent meeting of the Port Hed-land Racing Club in Australia on account of Scars-dale being allowed to start after he met with an accident. It appears that in the Flying Handicap" he collided with a post and knocked an eye out. He was started in a mile and a quarter race later In tlie day and won. A police court case was the result. The owner and jockey were fined ?5 each and the club 3. John Miller, on returning to Lexington recently from New York recently, brought three thoroughbred mares. Two were for Miss Daingertleld, at Kingston Farm, and the other went to Ed Kane, manager of August Belmonts Nursery Stud. The two that were placed under Miss Dalngerfieds care are: R. H. Davis bay mare Desirous. 8, by Hamburg Clementina, with iilly fpaL at side by Master Robert, and Heurv Morris brown filly.. Lady Fern, 2. by Hippo-dromt. Ladv Reel. Mr. Belmont sent his bay filly; Sand Vale," 3, by Rock Sand Lady Violet, to go jnto the stud.
