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1 ■, ] , j j , . * , 1 1 ■ « I ! LAUREL TRACK IMPROVING YESTERDAYS CARD FOR SELLING PLATERS WITH NO OUTSTANDING FEATURE. Fair Helen and Yodeles Bid Up After Winning Their Races — Rumored Change of Trainers of the Big Butler Stable — Gossip of the Track. Laurel. Md.. October 18. — Todays program at Laurel was made up of a series of selling races, the conditions of which were framed to suit ordinary horses* Track conditions showed some improvement over the previous days, but the going remained heavy and lumpy in six ts. It was a featureless day of racing. Disturber, one of the choices in the ojiener. which finished second to Maifou, changed hands after the race. Sam Louis claiming him from Andrew Miller for .y.MHI. William Oarth engaged in the selling race activities after Fair Ilcleu won the third race. He advanced tier 00 over her entered price of oo, but she was Ixiught in. Jockey Mink rode two winners. Dryad and Lady Loudon. It is said that Capt. W. F. Presgrave will take over the horses of W. It. Coe. The latter purchased a number of high-priced horses during the past season, but met with poor success. James Coffey, an I Id-time rider and recently employed as a valet by Johnny McTaggart, is in a bad way. Coffey was taken down with a severe cold, diie to exposure as a result of attending the late Hugh Penny when that turfman died here last spring. Tuberculosis developed and Coffey is now confined to his bed in the homestead sanitarium at Middle Orove. N. Y. He is receiving the best of attention, but would like to hear from some of his many friends on the turf. Coffey was connected with racing in many capacities for twenty-six years. According to a rumor, a change of trainers is to be made shortly by James Butler, whose big string is lieing trained at present by It. C. Benson. The latters health has Ik-ci. none too good during tlie past summer and he is anxious to relinquish the arduous duties, which training a big stable entails. It is said that Andrew Blakeley has been selected to succeed Mr. Benson. Blakeley at present is training some horses for tlie California breeder. II. O. Comstock. Oeorge Odoms name has also been mentioned as a successor to Benson. P. T. Chinn, who has lieen an active purchaser, both here and abroad during the past two years, of thoroughbred yearlings and broodmares, has purchased for a customer the well-bred mare Intact by Hastings — Involved, by Prince Hampton — St. Andress, by St. Simon. The third dam is the grand. lam of the great Rock Sand, purchased by a French syndicate from August Belmont. H. G. Bedwcll lost the promising three-year-olds Jim Savage as a result of fever contracted while en route from Canada here. W. B. Mitchell also lost the two-year-old A. Mancini. Louis Martine has arranged to send to Kcntucky for the yearling brown colt by Plaudit — Ivabel. The latter will he broken and wintered at Oravcs-end. Ivabel won many races for Mr. Martin. during her career on the turf. She is out of Ivory-Bells, the dam of Old Rosebud and Mars Cassidy. J. W. Hedrick has sold Forum, a horse that he t.xik out of a selling race, to Phil Musgrave. Harry Shannon has gone to Kentucky to purchase a stable of horses for Dr. Sullivan of Toronto. C. W. Oasscr lcH last night for Kentucky to attend the yearling sales and intends to make several purchases. Yodeles. winner of the fifth race, was bid up from 00 to 05 by J. J. Hedrick, but was bought in. J. Howard Lewis purchased Sarsenet todav from J. B. Uoudiiiau for ,500. Sarsenet will be scb.olc.l during the winter months with the idea of making a steeplechaser of him. , J. Wilkersoii of Toronto, owner of Brandywinc. was an arrival today. Tom Shannon, who developed the g.xxl two-year-old, George Smith, for Edward McBride, has gone to Kentucky to make seme yearling purchases. Trainer Ziegler of the Beverwyek Stable has transferred tliree yearlings and three two-year -old .-to Oravcscnd from Saratoga. Lena Misha is one of the two-jytir-olds. Frank Taylor has also moved six yearlings from Saratoga to Cravesend.
