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NOTES OF THE TURF. The New York Breeding Bureau has taken lively interest in the New York Horse Show, and this year will offer a premium of 00 for the best thoroughbred shown. George W. Wingfield. Nevada, millionaire mining man. has engaged George Strate, formerly trainer for Charles W. Clark, to handle his racing stable. The horses, which have been on the .Witigfiuld ranch near Sacramento. Cal.. will be shipped at once to Juarez. Mr. Wingfield Is p. aiming to go In for the breeding and racing of thoroughbreds on a liberal scale next season. The Coney Island Jockey Club has won another round of its battle against the commissioner of taxes of New York City. The Court of Appeals has allirmed the lower court in. the suit for the reduction of the assessment on the Sheepshcad Bay track. This means that the property in the Sheepshcad Bay district of Brooklyn, consisting of more than 400 acres of land, is not to be taxed on a valuation of ,121,250, as assessed recently by the commissioner of taxes, but on a valuation of ,-5S3.420, as decided by the Court of Appeals.
