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r I j ] j | I i SOiLS F THX TURF. James Bowman will have charge of the jockevs room at the Butte track. William McDaniel will take the hist stable of i cloven horses to Windsor at the dan of the Latonia meeting. The stewards of the Jockey Club have iisailseetl the complaint of the trainer for J. L. Holland against c. c. Bmltbaon for violation of the selling race rules because of insiillicii ill proof. S. B. Thompson was acting for Hon. John S. II iidrie in the yearling purchases he made at the New York s.ilis last Monday. The youngster- 1ia p. arrived at Hamilton and been sent out to the valley Ianu until tall. The cost of shipping horses from track to track on Long Island has been increased by a ruling of the Public Service Commission thai the express companies must make a uniform charge for a car. regardless of whether it is filled or not Heretofore he charge has been per head. Sandbar, winner of the Hamilton Derby, is a coll bv Rock Sand -Velocilv. and was bred by August Belmont, who aoid him to his present owner. M. Daly, for 00 last fall. The colt was not entirely sound and was along slowly, but he won a race before going into winler iiuarters. and his been improving steadily this spring at the Canadian meeiings. Mailer P. Jeanuasrs, has leased his farm at Woodlands. Cal.. and is now living near the Dak land rack, si Ipsa Ihe hay from San Francisco. lb and the late John Mackey purchased the Wood lands farm between them. but. .just prior to Hack vs death, they agreed to divide it. and Mackey turned his portion of the farm into cash. At present Jennings has no horses in training. Sir John Johnson, which has been in the stud il John I-.. Madden8 Hamburg Place, at Lexbagten. has returned to .New l"ork and has joined the BeverWyck stable striae- trained by G. Belgler. Sir John Johnson is looking well and will be lit f,r racing at Saratoga. The Beverwyck Stable has three yearlings at Sheepshead Bay in charge of its agent. Lhrrj Civy. one being by Goldea Maxim and two by King James. A word or praise is certainly due the Aipieduct superintendent. Walter Hampshire, not only for the generally smart appearance of the grandstand and appointments of the track generally, but ah» for III- perfect track No one who had seen the condition of Hie track some few Weeks since, when it v. is overgrown with weeds throe leet high, owing :o :ls four veals respite, could have believed the superintendent would be capable ol resurrecting . I order oat of such chaos The fences of the sieephchase course cause him to sigh, since they have well-nigh sloughed away, and would need an outlay of fully ,000 to restore them to shape. Pity, too! Lor ilie Aqueduct fences in their heyday were tl qua of those on the best jumping courses of the east.— New York Telegraph.
