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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. W. L. Oliver has ■ new rai in? partner in t;ns Junk, owner Of Hie lien Island Hotel. Lafayette Block is agent for the stable. No kens trainei in Tasmania won Wet 12.000 in that state this rear, Chance HUte aad Walaaoria being the chief winners with ,083 each. It has bean decided to edncate August Belmonts Bock View for a Jumper in view of the erratic dispositon he has shown in racing on the Hal. It develops that the none W. C. West survived the attack of sickness that report had it caused his death en route from Reno to San Francisco last week. Br. J. F. Adam-, a member of the Maryland lOCtey Club, is in the market for a stallion with which to establish a thoroughbred stud at his farm in Maryland. The opening day crowd at the San Francisco Exposition race meeting last Saturday was estimated nl 20,000. Surely that was ■ royal welcome for 1 lie returning thoroughbred. The belief that the restriction of English racing hi Newmarket would bring about specially large fields, caused the erection there of new anmber-boards containing spaces for sixty-four horses and jockeys, while the interval between races was ex tended from thirty to forty minute*. Joel letd. one of the biggest operators an the English turf, has left Saratoga to return to England shortly. He became widely known as the first man to recognize the superiority of the. American seat when Tod SI *o went to England. Ford gathered 80,000 as a result of backing Sloan the first year he rode abroad. H 1 . Brown expects a big meeting at Havana next winter, as the Cabana have soi0 their last crop of sugar at increased prices, and there is plenty of inonev on the island. I! is arranging tor a meeting "f eighty or ninety days b Ngin abonl Christina-. James Milton will serve as starter, and the other officials will lie practically the same as Rist. winter. Jack Goldsborough. who broke Foxhall P. Keenes vearlings last full, savs that Puss in Boots was the fastest two-year-old In the east last spring just before he left for Kentucky with Boamer. He was not surprised when Puss la Boots defeated Dominant in the Fnited States Hotel Stakes. She was in receipt of twenty-sis pounds actual weight and Goldsborough does not bettere thai there is a two-year-old In this or any other country callable 01 making aach a unttaaaan to her. Lewis s. Thoaapana. In whose colors the bones of Barn P. Whitney are running this summer, because of the death of Alfred Gwynae Vanderbilt, Mr. Whitneys brother-in-law, in the Lusttaala disaster, rooted for Bromo, not Dominant, in the Grand Union Hotel Stakes at Saratoga last Saturday. For Bromo is Mr. Thompsons own colt, and the only race horse he owns. Braaao is a brother of Let chares. Mr. Thompson owns Brookdale Farm, the domicile of the Whitney stud in New Jersey. In 1SJI7 he won the Futuritv with the filly LAlouette. Since ls:t.t he has not campaigned a stable of racers, but he admits that his enthusiasm is being aroused for the sport once more and that it is within the limits of possibility that he may start out next season wih a string of moderate strength. Mr. Thompson lives in the tine old Btaa r house at Brookdale, which was built by the late David D. Withers.
