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NOTES OF THE TURF. W. R. Coe, whose horses now race in. the name of the Shoshone stable, is at the bead of the General Electric Company, one of the countrys great industrial corporations. Racing Secretary Martin Nathanson has issued the program book for the lirst week of the Charleston meeting. The minimum purse is 300 and there is a liberal sprinkling of handicaps and allowance races carrying values up to 500. T. M. Murphy, of Louisville, who has a band of thoroughbreds at Waldeck Stock Farm, which be recently purchased, has bought the six-year-oH mare, Cold of Ophir, by Ben Brush Roseliug, by Islington, from Docrhofer and West. She is in foul to Peep o Day. Thomas It. Gardner reports the sale of The Picket, bay stallion, 14, by Falsetto Voltario, by Volante, to J. E. Lane, of Charlottesville, Va. The Picket was a high-class race horse, having won during his career on the turf the American Derby, the Brooklyn Handicap and numerous other races. George Bakhmeteff, the Russian ambassador, was slightly injured at Baltimore yesterday while en route for the races at Pimlico when a taxicab in which he was riding collided with a motor car. The ambassador was cut about the face by Hying glass. One of the occupants of the other machine was taken to a hospital.
