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: : CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Jaaaes Milton has srrived at Montreal iii anticipa tion of th,. opening of the King Bu.lward Bark meet lag on Saturday, with which be will be connected I as start r. There are .Hit horses at the track. John t. wies.n. well-known turf reporter on , Keiilinkv tracks, died Monday uihl en route to a i hospital in Covington from the Latonia track, where . In- had sutler. ,| an attack of heart disease during , the aft. moon. George Oocbran, veteran steeplechase jockey, who rode for the IliPhcoek stable in W.iV and later , for Baton Leon in Europe, is training the horses of .1. W. Hedrick. Jr. Cochran also has three thoroughbreds of his own in training. When Cochran 1 could ride al 1 n ponnda or loss he guided many a 1 w inner ov er Chicago i racks. Ai g ihe oid-tlmers a! Aqnednet Tuesday was I George Barbee, a unce Btar Jockey. Barbee came to this i. inn 1 1 y from England in ls7.". to ride for John f. Chamberlain, who owned the Long Branch , race track, which be subsequently sol, l to B. D. Withers. Barb..- won the Belmont Stakes on Saxon ; in |s7l. heat in:: ii instead, ri.hleii bv William Lake land. There w .a . quit.- a number of Engliah riders , then in active service on New York tracks, including such celebrities as Hayward, Hngkes, Kvsus, Sparling and leak.-, of which William Hayward i and George Evans were best Hayward rude for . M. H. Sauford and Evans for the elder Augusi 1 Belmont. Jlmmj Bowe wa then a noo.1 Jockej riding for the McDanlels Confederacj The records of that time -|" li Ms name "Boe."
