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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Jacobs h.is extremely Basal] in fs, which helps her to ran well la the mud. Thomas Hitchcocks go id jumper Kintore has gone wrong and has been turned onl at Westbnry, L. I. The old Horse Haven track i-. being used extensively by trainers at Saratoga with yearlings to train. Winning Witch, a daughter of Broomstick and Sue Smith, purchased bj John Sanford to be sen: to the stnd, is in training at Saratoga. F. Ambrose Clark, who has been down with a serious attack of typhoid lever ai his farm at Coop erstown. N. Y., lias recovered and is expected at Saratoga. .T. L. MeCinnis is eager for a special race between T. .1. OBriens Sam Jackson and Andrew Millers Boamer at Saratoga, and he lias made several con cessions to bring it about. The conditions he proposes are weight-for-age at the mile and an eighth distance, track to be last. James Bowe is said 1" have three Stakes in view for the unbeaten Regret at Saratoga, and the winner of the Kentucky Derbj is going along exceedingly well in her preparation. The three are the Alabama, a slake for tillies at one mile and an eighth; the Saranac Handicap, one mile, and the Merchants and Citizens Handicap, one mile and - three-sixteenths, lo be ran August 21. Racing people from Montreal ro| ort that work is under way on the tnutuel buildings at Dorvsl. This IH oso ol" the report that there would lie bookmak-tng at tile autumn meeting of the Montreal Club. The last tx .kmaking on a mile track in Canada will l.e at the Connaught Park meeting in Ottawa, the last week in August. Next year the use of the mutoels will lie universal on the recognised courses. At a meeting of the executive committee of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association the following gentlemen were granted licenses to ride: F.mil Sheerer. David Blspham. A. M. Porter. L. M. Whiting and F. Cheston. Trainers licenses were granted •• It. I. Miller. .1. I. Yarnell. T. .! . I.onna ban and Harry Lee. jockeys: K Krause, G. Palmer, P. Moore, J. Williams. W. Howard. M. Cragin, G. dement and T. Gaskfats. John B. Madden is reported to have purchase 1 the live -year-old French-bred horse Pa at and, by Darlej Hah La Poetics, and will place him in the stnd at Hamburg Place. As a twi-yoar old lie won the Prix de Meulan at Maisons l.attitte. and when three won the Prix l.e Nicham at the same track, being then the property of the late Charles Kohlor and trained by S. C. Hildreth. His sire. Parley Dale. was one of St. Simons famous sons and winner in mm of the Ascot Derby and the 0,000 BcUpse Stakes ai Sundown Park.
