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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Keyhoiirn has been resold — this time to W. J. Spiers. Former Senator J. N. Camden is among the late arrivals at Saratoga. i. Billermans gelding W. C. West was attacked by car sickness while en route from Reno and died at San Francisco August IS. John Bar sett reports the death of the brown ■My Bargain by Migraine out of Dicker by Og.len. The filly died of lung fever. The partnership yearlings of August Belmont and T. C. McDowell have been entered in the sale at Lexington, September 14 and 13. Benjamin Woodford has sold to Sr. Eitgenio Al-Tares, of tuba, the chestnut yearling colt by Plaudit Breesylaad, by Orlando, second dam Lake Breese, by I.eonatus. for ,000. Brcckenridge Viley and Sons bay weanling colt half-brother to Highball, by Fair Play— Strychinia. committed suicide by putting his head in Ike fork of ■ small tree, and then pulling back broke his neck. Applications for stable room at Lexington are pouring in to Superintendent IJoss. and a shipment of six carloads of horses will arrive today, including the stables of Jefferson Livingston, Howard Dots. William Lewis. F. V. Moore and .1. W. Cold blatt. .1. o. Keen.-, by obtaining 0,040 from the sho si • Stable for his good tillv Jacobs last week. succeeded in rounding out a properoUH season m his in. i year as trainer-owner, earlier in the year he sold Carmen, a Peter Quince tilly. to Schuyler Parsons for ,000. The roe for genii. •men riders scheduled for Satnr d.i.v it Saratoga was declared off. as there w ere D I enough amateurs on hand to make a race pns Ible. This was a great disappointment to Lieut. tied aJnera, who was looking forward to another rietorj « ith Little Nearer. John Saufords mares Trance and Consuello II. ami foals were shipped to Mr. Saufords Hurinana I arm. Amsterdam, N. V.. last Wednesday nighi fr E. B. Bradleys Idle Hour Stud. Trance had i loil at side by Duval and was bred this year to Start Shoot. Consuello II. idam of George Smith had ■ foal a I side b.v Trap Rock. Reno is planning for a return meeting not long after the close at San Francisco, according to otti-eials of thai new racing Center. I he initial meeting was a mii c ess so far beyond expectations the management is said to have decided to bold a two weeks meeting some time in September or Oc- ti her. Ti act dates will be selected so as not to conflict with other tracks. Many ol the merchants of San Francisco made Saturday afternoon a half holiday for the purpose of allowing their employes to go to the races that opened in connection with the exposition and cele I. rate the return of the sport. The revival of racing in San PranciSCO is looked upon with favor l many of the prominent business men of the city who re-member the good times they enjoyed when the sport was in its glory.
