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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. locuej G. i orey will now be seen in the saddle on tl ■ Canadian circuit. I i. OBrien, who own- Sam Jackson and Cy Merrirl,. is ■ New York business man. Jockey Charles Bore] has severed I lis raaaecrJoa ■with the stable of .lames Butler, lie will ride as :i free lame hereafter. Samuel Nesi.it- of Montreal has purchased the two-yeai okl bay Slly Dapbeen Dawson, bj Durante — lnleiiiiez/o. Mr. Nesbitt owns the sire of the filly and probablx will in t race ber, but reserve her for the stud. Not in a m ire of yean ha - Saratoga entertained so many persons of prominence as have Socked there for the current race meeting. The majority have taken cottages or hotel suites for the entire month. with the result that four solid areeka of festivities are expected. Regret was riven a work out of a mile and aa »»__ eighth In 2:M over the Oklahoma track at Saratoga and Saturday. Her appearance In the Alabama Stakes, H for three year old HI lies, to be run mi Thursday fL next, will ii her Br t since she won the Kentucky m Derby at LoaisvlUe. f The Keiitm kv Derby winner Regret, which is in h splendid condition, did not start la the Travel- k siaki--- at Saratoga Saturday hocauae "f the heavy k condition of the track. The two-year-old Dominant, M which, Uke Regret bi in tin-staid.- of L. s Tbomp- A si. n. was within Id fr .hi the Santord Memorial ft Stake the k Joseph i: WIdeacr ami his nephew. George D. L Wldeaer. of Philadephia. visited Saratoga Satardaj H to see Compliment run and jni.ii. The younger Mr. L Widener. who breeds his own burses at Sllverbroek ft Pam in New Jersey, owns a smart two year-old ill • . 1 . , " . " - r - Transputer, a hOBW .red son of Garry llerrnianu. sire of Alfred Nolle and Sam Jacks n. J. Temple Rwathmey ami Edward M. Weld, the owner of Weldship. were visitors from New York at Baral ga Saturday to see Weldship win the North American Steeple, lias,.. They own adjoining • stales in Virginia, and are planning t" set up a stud farm with tin special object of breeding steeplechasers. Gwyn Tompkins is their neighbor and trains horses for both, the trio lieing great cronies. Crawford Rons, boaorary secretary of the Con-nanght Dark Jockey Club, was a visitor In Montreal a day or so ago In the interests of the meeting to be in hi at Ottawa commencing August 24. It is the Intention of the Connaught Park Jockey Club to have a special train run to and from Montreal each day. It has been suggested that the train leave Montreal at 10:30 or 11 oclock and return immediately after the last race. Mr. Ross stated that the outlook for the meeting was of Ihe brightest. The applications for stable accommodations are already commencing to arrive and there will be no scarcity of racing material from which to select good lieiiK Sam Jacksons ascent in the scale of equine fame serves to accent the fact that his dam. RaveUo II.. is ■ reall.v remarkable broodmare. To the st. Simon horse. Collar, she foaled the fleet and staying coll Frank GUI; mated with Garry Herrmann she pro- dnced Sam Jackson, and then as iiie result of an alliance with Broomstick sent into the world of racing the Two Thousand Guineas winner Sweeper 11. Rare is the broodmare which foals three high i-ia-s racers, as she has done, she is a daughter of the Epsom Derby winner Sir Hugo and is now in France, tied up there lv the war along with other br lniares belonging to H. I.. Duryea. Captain Sam Drown Imported her SB Ibis country. Negutiaiions for the meeting of Koamer and San; Jackson in a special ran- progreased ■ step further when Andrea MiUer. owner of Reamer, and Jack McGinnis, trainer sf s.tm Jackson, met bud Saturday night at Saratoga and agreed to bet their own money on the race between the two great handicap per former-:. It was agreed to race at Saratoga or at some other track before the close of the se.aseti. the horses to carry 12.! pounds each over a route of one mile and an eighth. The sweepstakes will be for 85.000 a side, and in all probability the association staging the race will add a substantial amount. It ma be thai the two will not be brought together until the Havre de Grace meeting in September, bul every effort will be exerted to have the race tale place sooner.
