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NOTES OF THE TURF It H Good of Pawneo City Neb has purchased OtlJo and Paw and will race them at Denver DenverThere There was a highly profitable totalizator dividend at the Calcutta meeting in India on February VI the Australianbred gelding Lazarus which beat ten others in the Esplanade Plate returnig bis hackers odds at the rate of 12 to 1 Lazarus which had not previously shown form of any account gOt thq best of ifbad start and led throughout A week later Lazarus won the Kaligbat Plate his dividend in a field of 11 being at the rate of slightly over 11 to 1 1The The speed program of the Minnesota State Fair at llamline between St Paul and Minneapolis September 0 to 11 pays more attention to running races than ever before The program has just been made public by Secretary John C Simpson mid Includes eight races for prizes ranging from 200 to 500 An entry fee of five per cent is to IHJ charged Five entries arc required to fill and three to start No deductions will be made from winners winnersThe The American breeder Mr J E Madden has made a recordbreaking entry for an American event the Futurity Stakes of 1M7 He has nominated no less than 100 broodmares most of which were covered last year by Star Shoot Ogdeti Plaudit or Sir John Johnson Mr Madden has a decided pull In numbers but such is the lurk of the game that some owner who has nominated two or three mares may eventually be represented by something capable of heating the liest thrown by Mr Maddeiis 10t Sydney Hefercc HeferccThe The Austrian Jockey Club has just held an im ¬ portant meeting and has decided says the Lon ¬ don Daily Mail to abandon the usual spring race meeting at the Freudcnau course No decision has yet been taken in regard to the summer and autumn meetings The decision his been taken In consequences of the feeling of depression caused by the fall of Przemysl and is of great significance for racing lias so entered into the lives of the aristocracy of AustriaHungary that its cessation has not been resorted to lightly lightlyWhen When all Is said and done 1 do not think it Is to lie regretted Hint the racing crisis happened nays Hotspur in the London Daily Telegraph The public wanted convincing and all that has happened is an assurance to them that behind racing are all those vital considerations which were emphasized by the speakers at Derby House The thunder lias cleared the air and though I am quite sure fiat racing will olily go on with considerable difli culties so long as the nation remains under the vast strain and anxiety of war the effect has been to let people generally have a better and dis ¬ tinctly clearer understanding of the necessity of carrying on racing and breeding breedingThe The memorable controversy in which the horse alone came out with Hying colors and only the human element and a part of the fourth estate suffered disaster all arose like most other storms in teapots out of a mistake The Duke of Port ¬ land wrote to the Jockey Club meeting that he would never have written to the press at all had he known the true facts We have thought so from the first but the confession shows the danger of anyone rushing into print and es ¬ pecially of Dukes doing so Dukes have to be even more careful than others because there are so many people who always agree with a Duke Presumably the Duke scratched his horses also under the same misapprehension London Illus ¬ trated Sporting and Dramatic News
