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NOTES OF THE TURF. Jack Atkin now stands 1G.1 and weights 1,300 pounds. Ralph is wintering well at Louisville, according to reports from there. T. Rice, the American jockey, lias returned to Paris from Germany, where he has passed two years. He intends remaining in France. The Equitable Life Assurance Society lias paid the heirs of the late jockey Tommy Burns 9,500 on two policies which he held in that company at the time of his tragic death in Brooklyn, N. Y., last month. I 15. F. Guthrie, of Shelbyvllle, Ky., has applied for stable room for seven horses at the Lexington track. He will move his horses to the track about the first of February. Louis Winans has retired his Cambridgeshire Handicap winner. Adam Bede, to his Lordship Stud, where he will stand at the moderate fee tor such a grandly-bred horse as 19 guineas. No doubt Sir Martin and Dalmatian will join him in the future. Barney Schrciher has placed his brown stallion Bannockburn, 1S95, by Hayden Edwards Bettie Blaise, at Lansing and McFerrans farm, on the Versailles pike, near Lexington, Ky., where he will make the season of 1911. Dr. William DIetz, of Spangle, AVask., was in Lexington last week looking over thoroughbreds in that vicinity. Dr. Dietz recently purchased from Joseph Umeusetter the bay stallion Fountain Square, i, by Dick Welles Barbara M., by Masetto. Dr. Dietz has four thoroughbred mares which will be mated with Fountain Square next spring. A press dispatch from Baltimore says: "For a vear or more the ollicials of the Maryland Jockey Club have been ardent advocates of the pari-mutuel form of betting as against bookmaking. In order to make the change compulsory a bill will be introduced when the .Maryland Legislature convenes in January to wipe out the optional clause in the betting law and to create a statewide racing commission." Racing Secretary Martin Nathanson of the Charleston Fair and Racing Association, writing to a friend in Chicago concerning conditions at Palmetto Park, says: "Our patronage is increasing right along, with the betting already in great volume. We are in fine running order, and our system, with perfect harmony and congeniality among the ollicials and help, is sure to make for clean racing and satisfactory sport, as evidenced by the constant gain in class and contest. AAe have had great weather for racing, but need rain badly on account of our deep track." The Ormoudale Stock Farm, founded by the late William OB. Macdonough, near Menlo Park, Cal.j will continue to exist. Arrangements have been made by the heirs to carry on the work this remarkable student and well-qualified judge of thoroughbreds started. James McDonald, who has been superintendent of the farm for over twenty-three vears, will look after the horses and mares and foals. There are three stallions on the place, viz.: Ossary, Orsini and Duke of Ormonde, and there is another in Kentucky Ormondale. There are also nineteen broodmares, representatives of the choicest racing and speed-producing families. Nearly all of these mares are due to foal in the spriug. San Francisco Breeder and Sportsman.
