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NOTES OF THE TURF. Parker Whitney, who j- racing a string of borsea al Havre di Grace, has a breeding farm at Bocklin, Cal. c. W. Clark has shipped seven tboroagbbreds from San Mat-n. Cal . to Loui-ville, in charge of George Straight. They are fur racing purposes. Before shipment to Lexington Old Roacbnd was breeaed 1 mile and an eighth in 1:56% at Douglas Park. lh went the lirt mile in 1:46% and the I.1-1 quarter in 24-.. A. B. Spicokel- will send to New York alum; forty live of the choicest thoroughbred yearlings be lias ever bred al tin- Napa Stock Farm iii California. They will be sold in New York May 2.V Richard Havey, formerly onMal timer at the Oakland trmk. has been ill for a number of month- in the Clareaaoal Hospital, mar Baa Fraaciseo, bur is 1 1 n ale-cent aad will -oen lake up the training of -1 nn- 1 ret ten. B. I". Condran ha- lost his ginid mare. Flamma. She was -trickcu with pDenmonla during the winter I nd died. Mr. Cuulraii baa decided that he will not tact- this year, but be will make sonic yeariiag purchases for next season. Jockey clarence Turner, whose contract is new In hi by Archie Ziniiner. j- at Lexington ready to be glli riding. Tin in r ha- spent -ome Time at his Inuiie in Indiana since tbe Charleston meeting closed and baa taken oa a few ixjiinds in weight. The Havre de nr.-tcc management i- receiving many compliments on the improvements made in Its plant. The mw grandstand, made of steel and con Crete, is one of the line-i of it- kind in the land. It i- big enough to accommodate any crowd that i- likel.v to Visit the track, and is comfortable and convenient in every particular. The twiiyeai-old -itualion at Havre de Grate is perplexing, and i: will be some time before the real 1 i„l youngsters are uncovered. There ate my-ierious II 1,1 tiring- aboal dark secrets in nearly every one of the stable- of any prominence, but as yet little is known of tbem. Trainers bare been iinii.-ualh sue ■ • --fill in keeping Hie 1 lockers ami public in the dark a- to the form of their youngsters ibis season. c C. Smith-, hi. who started the bidding-up game a, Havre de Grace on Saturday, when be ran up Gordon and Grasmere after their victories, .-aid in explanation of his act-: -No. J am Bet irwrm t., add to my stab.e. I have all the hoises I want. 1 aaa ju-t working out an old score with Dick William-, and I shall be rigid there through the meeting when any of Id-, horses win. I am just giving bin a dose ol hi- own medicine." Denial of any intention of building a race Hack ■ ■ii In- newly acquired stock faun south of Reno, Nov.. i- made by George Wingticld. Tin denial came as tbe result of 1 story that Mr. WingflV I planned to build a 1 ace track on what was formerly 1 portion of the Governor sparks ranch, a six months racing meeting was to be held during the Panama Pacific Kxaosltlon in 1615, the story bad ir. and roads were to l e built from Lake Tahoe for the I euetit of tourists. The amended rules of the National Steeplechase ami Hunt Association allow three-year-old race- in May. No conditions for three year old steeplechase races are included in the program for the coming 1111 cting ai Ijnilico. hut the conditions for two of tin. steeplechases 10 be- run during the meeting have been left blank and ii a -n tiie-ie-n t number of starters lor a three year-old race of this description are guar ..nteed b. owners, it i- annua need, -neb a race win he carded at the distance of a mile and a half. Tim Pimlico program book, iust ranged for the meeting at thai Maryland track. May 6-May 2:;. provides for six races dailv. with ., S as the ruini-iiiiiin pane offering. The stake races are Hie Cla haugh Memorial Cup. for two -year-oMs bred in Maryland. Virginia and Pennsylvania. ,000 added lour and a half furlong-, to be run May 9: the Pimlico Nursery, for two-year olds, 61.000 added, four and a half furlong-, to be run May 10. and the Preakness Handicap, for three-year-olds, §1.500 added, one mile and an eighth, to be run May 21. Tie rather Impractical aneatloa of the merits of Ihe trot ting-bred horse and the thoroughbred in a tace of twenty miles under saddle is under debate in some of the harness hor-c weeklies. Such a com petition would turn largely mi the Blatter of condi lion, ami on the face ot it the harness horse would -Mil to have the strong end of tbe argument. The trotter, I have always maintained, is Hie beat-trained it 1111:11 in the worid today. He is required, under the conditions of hear racing, to be tit to do his best ai the regulation distance, and then go back and do the same thing at intervals of ball" an hour or five times |rj the afternoon if he is to get the mouey.— I rancis Nelson, in Toronto Globe. Tbe burial of the Derby winner. I.adas, near the winning post at Bpsom has brought out recollections ol the destiny of many earlier winners. One of Hun. an inaccurate one. describes "George Fred-• ink -pending his la-i days sightless on a Canadian farm. The son of Marsyaa and winner of its Derby of forty years ago did come to Canada in bis ■■let age. and was owned by the late Mr. T. I. Hod-gins. of London, who woa the tirst Woodstock Plate III 188S with Curtolima, and the Queens Plate of Ire yeara later with Kiteatrnag. Hut Heorgc Frederick failed to prove bis worth in his progeny and a a- sold to a Missouri httlu, Mr. Bryan O P.i 11 whose property he was when he died. George Frederick was aha only winner of Hie Derby ever owned 0 in the stud, in Canada. — Toronto Globe.
