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NOTES OF THE TURF. First Premium and Cartilage are quartered near Celina, Ohio. J. G. Foliansbce, president of the Jockey Club Juarez, is expected at Juarez shortly and a stockholders meeting will follow his arrival. Superintendent James P. Ross reports that the inside track at the Kentucky Association course at Lexington is greatly improved from the top dressing of sand which it received last fall. Former jockey Lawrence R. McCabe, Jr., was married in .Maryland last week to Miss Nora L. Hay-mond of Sutton, W. V. He is the son of a prominent Baltimore engineer and contractor. Price McKinney failed to buy McGrathiana Farm because he could not come to terms with the owners on the price. He offered 50,000 and Reasley Rros., who own the farm, set 00,000 as their price. Trainer Carroll Reid passed through Lexington recently on his way to Louisville, where he will train his horses this season. Mr. Reid is greatly enamoured of his Ren Trovato Cappadocia colt, which worked in such satisfactory fashion last fall. William Huston, manager of A. R. Hancocks Ellerslie Stud at Charlottesville, Va.. reports tho following foals: February 5, Rclle Flcur, by Eon, foaled bay lilly by Glorifier; February 0, Lady Go-diva, bv Hanover, foaled bay filly by Glorifier; February S, Aurine, hy Eon, foaled bay filly by Glorifier. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., was a guest last week of John 12. Madden at Hamburg Place, at Lexington, Ky. General Miles is one of the most distinguished soldiers on the retired list of the United States. In General Miles opinion the army horse should be from one-half to three-quarters thoroughbred. Racing men will sympathize with Henry McDaniel, whose wite shot herseir through the heart at the home or a friend with whom she was staying at Sheepshead Ray Saturday afternoon. Death was instantaneous. Mrs. McDaniel had only recently left a sanitarium near New York where she received treatment for a nervous breakdown. The hereaved. husband, who recently assumed the duties of trainer for Rooert Davies of Toronto, was apprised by wire of the sad affair and proceeded to the scene of th tragedy with all possible haste. Jockey Fred Teahan, who recently arrived at Charleston from Windsor, Ont., said that while walt ing for his train in Cincinnati, he visited the La-tonia race track to take a look at Gowell, which he rode to victory in the Latonia Derby last summer. Owner Jack Weaver induced him to gallop the Ortr Wells Responsive filly three-quarters of a milo and he said that she will be good as ever this spring. She went wrong last fall. Teahan said that there are only a few horses at Latonia. but those that arc there are all wintering well and will be iu fine shape for the Kentucky season.
