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I j I I CUBBENT NOTES OF THE TURF. I.sccit is back in the stable of A. W. Hoots. Jockey F. Herbert, who is credited with having made almost 5,000 while riding on the French " E turf, has quit the saddle for this season after an " unsuccessful experience in Kentucky. I. A. Brady and Martin Nathanson will he two of f the three placing judges at Oriental Park, Havana, , during the coming meeting of eightv-two days, beginning December 10. The Itooks ami the mutuels will both be in O|eratioii as last winter. II. I. »? I.rown lias had a battery of mutuel machines built in Cincinnati. Frank J. Bruen will l»e in charge e of the inutiiol department. The Business Mens Racing Association of New-Orleans has announced two new features for the winter meeting, which opens January 1. They are * as follows: Merchants Handicap, for three-vear-olds and upward, ,500 added, one mile and a" sixteenth, and the New Orleans Cup, for three-vear-olds anil upward, ,000 added, two miles and a ., quarter. The disqualification of Mars Cassi.ly at Latonia Saturday caused much confusion. Holders of tickets ;i on Vogue had torn them up, for it is quite unusual 1 to ;oe a horse which finishes third disqualified. Mars _ Cassidys number had lteen displayed for some time S before it was changed and that of Vogue substituted. Persons who held tickets on Vogue to show v threw them away and others found them. As both I. put in claims at the office the management is having some trouble deciding between the claimants. A dispatch from London says that W. B. Jennings a of California has purchased eleven yearlings and two „ two-y ear-olds from J. B. Joel. The names of the two-year-olds are Star Hawk and Hesperus. Mr. •; Jennings went abroad to purchase thoroughbreds for [ George w. Wlnglield ol Nevada. Star Hawk is by y Sunstar — Sweet Finch, and winner of the Little-port t- Plate and Ditch Stakes at Newmarket. Hesperus is by Sunstar — Our Lassie, and up to latest l f" advices had not started. Our Lassie is an Oaks winner and Sunstar a Derby winner.
