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NOTES OF THE TURF. W. W. Taylor rode Charles R. In race 19999. That speedy track al Seattle. The Meadows, is being converted into an automobile course. II is stated that the Ormonilah- Stock Faun at Meiilo Park. Pal., is to be divided into smaller biddings and that all the thoroughbreds on this farm are to lie sold at New York in September. Toe death Of the founder of this farm. W. OB. Macdonougn, leaves none to carry an the work he started. Derby Day at Overland Park. Denver, was a gral -uccess socially and luiam ially. Fourteen thousand persons were in attendance. Miss Bessie Amnions, daughter of the governor of Colorado, presented to jockey Molesworth, who rode Dalston, Hie I let by winner, a magnificent dotal horseshoe, in behalf of the racing association. T. Gilchrist, who has been booking on the Canadian circuit in Ih. name of the Lenox Club, has been barred from further operations, follow ing an examination of his sheets In connection with Bursars failure to win as a favorite last Saturday at Ottawa. This action was taken pending the completion of the in.piiry lato the race. The Furl of Jersey, rlie greatest ,,f all Fnglish thoroughbred breeders of some eighty years ago, who I, red lioih Gleaeoe and Ray Mlddleton, was asked one day by a novice if he had any deli 1 rules for breeding. IBs reply was that lie had three. First, always -elect ■ big-bodied horse on short legs and recollect that an inch of girth is worth two inches of height. Second. Ih- sun ami breed only ir...n performing famUies on i».iii sides of the house. Third and last, never breed from a horse with a bad temper, for If his progeny do not bite or kick, thev will fret hi mselves to death at the post. The friendship of Jacob Platan, the man who irain.-d Iroqaoia when he won the Fpsom Derby for the late Pierre Lorillanl. and Barney Reilly. who trained many years for the late D. D. Withers, is today as close and dear to them as it was in the years gone by, when the pair ol them were nie.t-Ettg each day an the track training their horses. Jake nays a visit to Rarn.-y week afli r week at Ohiuies- Hotel. 177lhe street. We-t Farm-, where Reilly has lived for many years. They lirst of all indulge In clam chowder, and then spend the real of the evening playing backgammon. — New York Telegraph. Scintillant II.. by Sheen — Saltire, originally exported from England to the United States, died in South America recently. This brilliant stayer .ju-t missed iK-ing one of the lnsf weight-forage racers in the old Chantry, and put up a sterling performance in winning the Cosarcwitch as a three -year old. As Ear as I know, the only representative of Scintillant in litis- country is tin imported stallion Firewood Scintillant II. Jessie Woodson, now at stud ill Cape Province. Scintillant died at service in Uruguay, and alH.nl the same time that good horse Bridge of Canny, sire of Cantilever and other good winners, died in the Argentine — The Latest, Durban, S. A.
