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CURRENT NOTZS OF THE TURF The fee for registration of eviTry horse Imported into South Africa for racing purposes has been increaned to fifty guineas guineasTom Tom Cannon the famous English rldor has just UhrnlPd bin slxtynlrifll birthday HP Inid his first mount and first win oiuth same day in 1SCO when he was foiirtenyear ohK John K Madden ha rlKold t KGljirpnl A rorhran of New York the good mure Veil dam of Vanitie now In SEngland mid sister to Maskette winner of the Futurity for the latcj Tnuies R Keeiie aud her bay colt by Star Shoot The price was not made public i rbe n nii8n ilroceurreiie0of a dead licat liCtwesa Inree liprses was TeturneU in the Walton Twoyeari old1 Plate at Samlown Park England OIK Aiirll 23 Somali Kitty OHara and the unnamed coltbyLM tleton Portia finished so closelyt together that the official eye could not jipparate tneinf Special coaches cartyiriK1 manr v Chicago1 tBrf fol lowerswill roll out of the Polkistreet station over tlio Mbnah at nine oclock tonight for Louisville t6 = view the running oft the Kentucky Derby Satur ¬ day The Sportsmens Club oTAnierica Is manag ¬ ing the special arrangements and reports that Roger Sullivan will have a coach for his party while Pot OMolley will have the same accommo ¬ dations for his guests guestsA A New York dispatch to the New Orleans Picayune says Indications point to the sale of the big race track at Havana to an American syndicate in the near future It is learned that Cnrley Brown who built the track at an outlay of nearly 500COO has had enough of racing in Cuba and has just granted an option on the plant to prosiKictivc buyers Tlie recent meeting in Havana was conducted at a big loss and Brown does not care to reopen next winter winterWord Word has just reached San Francisco of the ilcntli of Jimmy Lee the great colored jockey at his home in Hateland La the other day Lee achieved fume by riding six winners in one day at Latonia ceven years ago He was also in the limelight nt New Orleans by riding five winners twice in one week The crack little darky rider appeared at Emeryville several years ago but was not a success It will be remembered that he had the mount on Dorante in the Burns Handicap when Eddie Dugan beat him out witii King James In a hot stretch finish Report has it that Lee was penniless when he died although he had won a small fortune during his career on the turf San Francisco Chronicle of May 2 After the concluson of the yearling sale at Lex jngton Jake Sloan bought the twoyearold Quince Blossom by Peter Quince Baby Lamb for 75 This colt was bred by Senator Johnson N Cumdeii and was sold by him under the hammer In New lork last autumn to Messrs Young Carr and Piatt for tiOO At a sale last fall he was bought by if G Thompson of Cincinnati for 1300 and turned over to Will Perkins who a couple of days later found him to lie wind broken and turned him back Messrs Young Carr and Piatt wanted Senator Camdcn to take him back but he de ¬ clined on the ground that some fifty days had elapsed between the two sales Suit was brought in a Lexington court and is pending
