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NOTES OF THE TURF. The Austrian Derby will be run June 7. Ringling is again in training at Palmetto Park afler a brief let-.up. M.. Del Rosa, a noted Italian handicapper. died recently at Naples. Jockey J. Roiff. who spent the winter in this country," has returned to Europe. .1. G. Follansbee, president of the Jockey Club Juarez, has sailed from New York on a trip to Europe. The American racer Restigotiche. which S. C. Hildreth took to France, won about ,500 in steeplechase races in that country last year. Andrew Miller, Phil J. Dwyer, Thomas Monahan and John Walters, all prominent on the eastern turf, are on their annual pilgrimage to French Lick Springs. Jockev M. McGee, having returned from America, where he married Miss Brown, daughter of an American trainer, is now domiciled at Lamorlaye. I.e Jockey, Paris. The Prix du Commerce, to be run at Milan, Italy, Sundav, Mav 17, is to be a 0,000 race for thoroughbreds three years old and over. The distance is one mile and three-quarters. Donald Macdonald and Dartworth have been turned out in a paddock at Charleston and are being freshened for the spring and summer campaign of the J. L. Holland stable on the eastern tracks. After tlie disqualification of bis entry in the handicap at Palmetto Park Wednesday. II. G. Bedwell made a statement in which he said that the decision of the siewards,was just and that be did not expect to secure the race, even before the claim of foul had been made. The first shipment of the season to Norfolk was made a lay or two ago- from Belmont Park, when T. J. llealey sent eight of R. T. Wilsons borses to Al Weston, wlio will raw them in Virginia and Maryland. The shipment included a half-brother to Onager and a half-sister to Southern Maid among tin-two-year-olds.
