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[ I t * 1 I 1 | , * J i 1 1 • . , ,- 1 . I I I - 6 • j is I " NOTES OF THE TURF IN OTHER LANDS. Mr. W. K. Vamlerbilt has sustained a loss In j the death of his colt Seeuadas, which was considered to have a promising career coming. II. Aiimoiit has sustained a serious loss in the • death of his foal Cirrus, a brother to Nimbus, winch 1 broke his back by bolting against a barrier at the Hans de Victot. At Derby on Saturday. April :!. Mr. Tom Tylef said be would sell Sunloch. the Grand National win mi. for 5,000, ami added that he had been offered I nearly that sum lor the horse. Mr. Whitneys Panasteo, which is a favorite with . Joyner, the New market trainer, met with an acci-1 ih in through getting out of the stable. Before . tiling caught she sustained many small injuries. but fortunate] none of a serious kind. Stroasi heads the flat race list of winning stallions in Prance since the beginning of the year, his produce Inning won 1 « » . i; 4 r» trams ;,, stakes. Rate bus conies next with 88,125 francs, and Le Saglt taire follows with 38,200 francs. •I. II. Martin, the American jockey, made his • first appearance in the saddle this season at Not-j tinghani on Mr. Whitneys Leonnine in the Robin 1 Hood Plate, lie has now quite shaken oil the effects of his accident in Sw itzoi land The kings steeplechaser, Twelfth Lancer, did not I run in the Liverpool Grand National, but he was a 1 starter in the Champion Steeplechase the following : day over a course of less than three miies. He fell 1 at the first fence past Beccaets Brook and only two » of the six starters completed the course, listen winning from Lord Uivers. Ai a political meeting at South Croydon recently • Mr. Henry Chaplin, M. 1.. was asked to name the . probable winner of the Derby. T will not commit I myself o far as that." In- replied, "but I will i tell .MU I lie best t W o y eaf-obl I think 1 ll.O e OV€ r seen in my life, and one of the finest horses — not ! even barring Hermit — is a horse- called The Tot larch." Bobbin, by Meddh r- Handspnn. one of tin early . band of horses sent i" l.nglaml by H. F. Whitney and now owned by It. Wootton, can still run to , good purpose and at Leicester April * won the . Mellon Selling Plate, worth ,820. from eighteen , competitors, defeating another Whitney cast-off. Albany Beef, by Broomstick — Xela by a head. Tin- positions of the leading French owners ol 1 ,. tlai racers from the conHnencement of the season 1 up .. March :.! are as follows: M. Michel Calmann. ■ lot, oiiii francs: Mr. II. B. Duryea, 81,445 francs: Mr. W. K. Vamlerbilt. 47. 165 francs: jr. Zatiro-, ■ pulo. 44,475 francs: p Acbille FooM, 37.020 francs; M Edmond Blanc. 30,000 francs
