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NOTES OF THE TURF Schuyler L Parsons II K Knapp Gi Corhran and Francis R Hitchcock will make up a party of eastern turfmen who will go to Kentucky for the opening of the racing season at Lexington LexingtonThere There is a probability that the post time of the first raw at Havana Monday was later than sent out in the chart of the days racing Daily lacin Forms correspondent has left Havana and the mat ¬ ter cannot he investigated until his return north northSenator Senator J N Caniden has claimed the name Maix Henry fur his Ien Brush Nuns Cloth HIt The name is given in honor of the editor of HH Louisville CourierJournal The colt is one of the lx st twoyearolds in training at the Kentncly As sociatlon course courseIn In Victoria Australia it was recently decided by the state cabinet that no action could be takeii towards establishing the totalizator owing to minis ¬ ters differing on the question but during the inning session Mr Farthing M L A intends Introducing a bill for the legislation of the machine and is hopeful of solid support supportTotalizator Totalizator investments continue on he upgradi in New Zealand The turnover at the South Auck ¬ land Racing Clubs recent two days meeting was 1U7150 which was not only 2 10 letter than last year but a record for the club t the Dunedin Jockey Clubs meetings the investments for the three days aggregated 3G 75 From a horseman wh visited Harry Payne Whit ¬ neys Brookdale Farm conies word that bnrriug mishap Regret will start In the Kentucky Derbv Trainer Rowe is pointing the illy for that event and in company with the other Whitney racers she is said to he well advanced far more so tluui the thoroughbreds on Long Island Trainer Rnw will ship a number uf his best horses to Kcntuckv with Regret RegretUiclmrd Uiclmrd Wootton has left Australia for England He has however definitely decided to settle down in New South Wales and only that his sen Stanley has joined the army might not have gone hack to the old country this year The horses Stanley had in hand have been turned over to Frank and Mr Wootton may think the responsibility attached to n large string too much for his elder son considering his comparative inexperience as a trainer trainerThe The National Steeplechase and Hunt Association has issued gentlemen riders certificates to A Henry Iliigginson S J Stitch Thomas Wright W It Wild ey James Park Richard Mortimer Jr G Allen Lee E A Russell Jr II S Page Charles I Appleton and Karl Wittendalo Jockevs licenses were issued to the following E WolUe R Gilbert W J Kolder Sam Stevenson John Clarl and William1 Booth and trainers lictnscs to Willinm IL Henry Jerry Murphy Silas Voitch J Beyer and W M Carter CarterThe The Calcutta Turf Club has decided to abolish ivefnrlmg races Hitherto some of these events have carried liberal prizemoney hut the Calcutta Turf Club has suddenly decided they are undesir ¬ able Another move is the abolition of the Tolly gunge and all steeplechase meetings This does not mean that stecpleclmsing has entirely linislied in Calcutta but in future a whole day wll not be devoted to it at any lixture Perhaps a steeple ¬ chase may he included in the program on alternate days of big meetings meetingsIt It is unusual to read of a race horse being de ¬ stroyed consequent on hydrophobia but this hap ¬ pened at Liicknow India last month The night subsequent t running in the Stewards Cup a mare named Lady Anne developed extraordinary symp ¬ toms tearing up everything within rencli in her stall kicking and pawing the stable walls and dis ¬ playing a state of wild frenzy Colonel Holmes was en lied in by the trainer Longstall and after examination the mares case was pronounced to be hydrophobia She had been bitten by a dog at Lahore just a month previous to a day and she was destroyed destroyedA A J Goldslwrongh with Roamer and four other mcmlKrs of the Andrew Miller stable will leave Gravesend April 20 for Kentucky The crack four yearold will be accompanied by Lady Rotha which is being pointed for tlie Kentucky Oaks line St James and Quivive the last mimed two are two yearold sons of King James Goldsbirou h is also handling the Foxhall Keene twoyearolds but does not expect to send any of them to Ken ¬ tucky Steve Lawler expects to leave I tig Island for Kentucky with the western division of the Qiiincy Stable by April 15 His twoyearojils are coming around promisingly and both Trojan and Double Eagle are in line fettle fettleSand Sand Pocket winner of the opening juvenile race of the eastern season at Bowie is owned and was bred by John E Madden although running in the colors of Charles Patterson former trainer for the master of Hamburg Place When quuestioned as to why Sand Pocket was not running in his colors Mr Madden said My motto is to sell and regret rather than to keep and regret Any horse I iw ssess with the single ex ¬ ception of Nancy Hanks the thirtyyearold cham ¬ pion which I regard in the light of a pensioner is for sale It was for this reason I leased Sand Pocket to Charley Patterson I was afraid if I kept her some one would come along and make me too good an offer for her and Id have to sell Patterson will return the tilly to Mr Madden next fall She is by Rock Sand
