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• I . . r , f CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. James Batlef is expected at Saratoga early next week. At King Bdward Park Thursday, A. Pickens won with four of his six mounts. Martin Nathanson departed for Montreal yesterday to rename his duties in connection with the second me. ling at the Maisonneiive track. Barney Bchreiber has gone to Saratoga for a day or two bel, re proceeding to San lnincisco for the meeting which will open at the latter place An unst 21. lo-i.rge Smith. the crack twoyear-old which wrenched In- shoulder .luring the running of the Sanford Memorial, was on the track at Saratoga Thursday morning and appeared to be all right. His trainer. T. .1. Shannon, feared that he might have to camel all his Immediate engagements, but there i- a good .hance now that he will be seen carrying -ilk before the end of the Saratoga meeting. Sam Jackson pulled op slightly lame after a recent work-out at Saratom. and it is possible that he may be retired. Meantime the match race between him and Koamer hangs tire. If there is a meeting . f the pair in a special race it probably will take place in Maryland. £am Jackson is entered iu handicap event- at Belmont Park this fall, hut that i- a track for which Uoamer has not shown a liking. H. D. Brown was in Chicago yesterday on his way east ii ni Cal rornia. He will stop off at Windsor and Toronto for a couple ..! days or so and then go to Saratoga. lie reports the Ueii.i meeting to be really a remarkable success for such a small place and a profitable money-maker. The coming San FrandaCO meeting, he says, is les»in.-.l to be a p.. pillar and aucci ssful affair, sure to draw heavy patronagi . Andrew Millers K.air.er showed at Saratoga Thursday that it was possible t. travel at a ■ i clip, even on such a bad rack as prevailed. He had his final work for the- Champlain Handicap after the running of the steeplechase, and went the mile and an eighth with several expert locker-i keeping tabs. Trainer GoMsborougb stopped him in the last 1ihi yards and later announced that he had timed him in 1:56%, Other watches made the work even taster, a reliable trainer catching tin- follow big fractions: Quarter, 24—.: half, 48%: the eighths, 1:01%; three-quartera, 1:14%; mile. 1:41%; mile and an eighth. 1 :"i"i -.. Many of th- high class two year-olds will lie nii-s hut in. in the Futurity, according to the hook of the* k Westchester Racing Association for the Belmont Park meeting, w hich was distributed to the horse men at Saratoga Thursday. There are sixt six left i in the big two-yea l old event out of the original nominations of 309, Ol which 2o were void and 2:S! .lei hired. Dominant, which is the best youngster r carrying the I.. S. Thompson colors that has been i -ecu so far. is not eligible, but the stable has Thim derer. a brother to Regret, to depend on as well as | Vermont, slip-hod. Hanaa and Bromo, Other good I ..ne- not eligible tor the Futurity are Raise. George Smith and Jacobs. The Futurity will he run Thnra day, September 4. " -■ .. . _
