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1 1 . i J I | I is s ■ " as - i e t s NOTES OF THE TURF. New Dance, dam of the evergreen Caper Sauce, has a tine bay colt foal by Marlitnas. The youngster is the property of C. A. Crew. Owiin Tompkins lias sent the lnvcreck Stables Plaiiover. winner of ihe Kings Plate at Montreal last year, to ltrookilale Faun to be mated with Peter Pan. During the autumn meeting at Auckland. N. /,.. butt month, the totalizator turnover lor the I vvo days was 84,410, representing an Increase of 14,149 over the previous years showing for the corresponding daj s. No rider has been engaged for P.eehive in the Kings Plate, at Toronto next Saturday, though several well-known jockeys are anxious for the mount on the favorite, hoping thereby to get their portraits on next years Ontario Jockey Club colored hanger. Some 53.060 persons saw Lilyveil. a live-year old horse by Martagon — Chiffon, carrying ISO pounds make a new Australian record of :i:2iL. for two , mil. s in winning lb- Sydney Cup at the Kandwick track In Australia last month. The previous record was 3:27. The death is reported from India of Dr. Spoon t Hart, a well-known sportsman, who was well known la Australia, being the owner of P.rocklesby Stud. CoTOWa, and seldom was there a yearling sale with out he was strongly represented. Dr. Hart owned inan.v good race homes, winning the Viceroy Cup with la ng Tom. aid. .1. Ii. Bees, formerly a prominent racing oflicial on southern tracks, linds much to encourage | the belief that racing is once more coming into its own. Looking over the vast crowd that thronged Churchill Downs. Saturday, when the Clark Han li tap was run. he said: "Here Is the evidence that the American public want racing. I only wish 1 that some of my friends now gone could be with 1 me today and see this sight." The biggest crowd of the meeting was out Saturday, and it was a genuine old Pimlico gathering. United Stales Senators. Foreign Ambassadors, lead Ing political celebrities of the city and state, piomi nent professional and business men were seen i i all hands. I; was a distinctive assembly hardly to be seen anywhere else but at old Pimlico. Tin iron men were getting a severe tussle, and more ; money passed through the machines than at unj time during the meeting. In all. 41,017 was bandied. - Baltimore News. The death occurred rieeiitly in the General llos-pita] al Penang of A. Campbell, a well-known horse trainer. Mr. Campbell, who was an Australian. succumbed to an attack of doable pneumonia. After haiing Australia the deceased was for som-time resident in India, but moved to Penang in ls.iii. Both as a trainer and jockey lie was most successful, and at different times won- the colors of most ot the principal patrons of the turf ill the Straits Settlement. He gave up riding about live years ago, ami was then appointed othcial starter to the Penang Turf Club. Own rs whos,. stables have gathered at Dciori niier Park for tin- meeting which opean there on 1 Fridav next. Include -I Sheridan. .1. W. Arthur, s. Polk D. Hill. D. a. BroUler, J. A. Baxter, l . Lynch. R. S. Barnes, W. Gargan, J. Bckert. A. D. Worley. J. II. Adams. A. C. Niehaus. W. Ode. A. J. ir:. .1 W. Pinkhain. M. W. Puck. W. L Ritchie. W . Walkins. C. N. Freeman. J. I. Harrington, M. .1. Lowensteln, I". Delaney, -I. M, MeAssv. L. S M. Iarlaml. II. . Baton. W. Pirnic. Mrs. !. Phillips. .1 I. Byrne, C. Phillips, J. II Moody, A. W. loin,, .i. c. Bradley, .1. tl. Lavin. K. L. Iilzgeia!,!. M. I. Viau. .1. II. Walker. C Brotdus, l Huestls, -i. J. Coulter, I. Striker, II. IV Ioy a. T. L. Reynolds, W. EUiott, B. J. Salt. In England not long ago. two men were charged I with conspiracy to defraud I kmakers by mean* of forged telegrams, with the result that they were ,. both c mined for trial. It was said that lust t before he race commenced the accused handed in n wrongly sddneneed telegrams together with a large e number of blocking telegrams, fin- the purpose of f delaying the m. -m v. being neat. The result of I the race was received by telephone, and the ad dn-s of ihe telegram of the winner corrected I while il then »-et ■ sllewed to remain ami a hire ed and -o i astray. A bookmnker. Iu II giving evidence, said thai in the blocking of teh grams sometimes yards of quotations from Ihe stock exchange wen- N-ni. while on another oc casion the fu-t chapter of Genesis was despatched d with the iutcnt to block th" other wires.
