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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The colony of horsemen at New Orleans has swelled the transient imputation of the city to an extent that is making itself felt in apartment houses, hotels anil restaurants. There are now more than 300 horses at the Fair Grounds. The stable of Einil llerz is expected at the Fair Grounds, New Orleans, on the same train that will take the R. T. Wilson stable to the Crescent City. Jockev Butwell is to ride for the Here stable, and J. McTaggart for Mr. Wilson. In view of the frequently repeated story that Tod Sloan believed the French horse. Ilolocaustc. would have won Flying Foxs Derby but for breaking a leg. it is interesting to read in Sloans recent book that it was 20 to 1 against the French horse lieat-iug Flying Fox if they had got away at the first attempt. Finally Sloan sums up the w hole matter by saying that lie is convinced Flying Fox was the liest horse he had ever seen in England. Jockey Vincent Powers was held in ,000 bail for the grand jury by Magistrate Conway in the Flushing. N. Y.. police court Monday on a charge of homicide. He was arrested on October S when an automobile he was driving killed Beatrice Po-s.dti. five years old. of 10S Fiftieth street. Corona, while the child was crossing Jackson avenue. Mrs. Powers, wife of the jockey, and two others who were in the car. testified that the Posotti child dodged from liehind a motor truck standing at a crossing.
