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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. William Dubois, well-known New York commissioner, is planning to spend the winter at New Orleans. Ten winners of the Victoria Derby have won the Mellxutrne Cup, only one of these being a filly, that being Briseis. Jockeys J. Pendergast. M. Nathan and J. Dreyer will shortly join the riding colony at the Fair Grounds, New Orleans. II. T. Oxnard has decided to send his young stallion Fayette to the Bowling Brook Stud at Middle-burg. Md.. for two seasons. M. Roy Jackson, master of the Rosetree Fox Hunt, has purchased Sherlock Holmes aud Conquistador, mid they will be hunted this wiuter. A. C. Niebaus. A. Nicolai, J. D. Misick. G. B. Cochran, narence Reed. J. McCullough. A. A. Gregg. John Shields aud L. F. OLeary will ship , their horses from Maryland to Tia Juana. John Sanford of Amsterdam, N. Y.. made some additional English purchases at the recent Newmarket sale of Col. Hall Walkers horses. He pur-cliased three fillies and a colt, and for one filly, a four-year-old. that he intends to use for breeding purposes, he paid ,000. Howard Maxwell, a brother of Mrs. Joseph E. Davis, is a newcomer to the turf who will show his i colors for the first time next season. Mr. Maxwell I has three coming two-year-olds at Middleburg, Md.. iu the care of Hubert Walden. who will fit them for • the races. Mr. Walden has announced his intention i of racing in Kentucky again next season, and it is s probable that he will take the Maxwell horses west t with the others in his stable. At the recent meeting of the M.xryland Jockey r Club the following officers were re-elected: Spalding L. Jenkins, president: William B. Oliver, vice-president; ■ W. P. Riggs. secretary: Charles E. Mc-I.ane. treasurer. Directors: Spalding L. Jenkins. William B. Oliver, Charles E. McLane. F. J. Bryan. . C. C. Poultney. M. Sheehan. Ral Parr. W. F. Presgrave. R. J. Walden. Clarence 1. Reynolds. D. Ste.vart Sittings and William P. Rig,is. The possibilities of the mutuel system for the » encouragement of the breeders and owners of horses * could have no lietter exemplification than the condition " of affairs at Lexington, ■where purses are to be raised to a minimum of 00 for meetings of from J ten to thirteen days, spring and fall. The little ; Kentucky city, with a population of no more than t 4,0.000 people, about one-third of whom are not t whites, is the same place where under the book-making system meetings could formerly he carried j on for only three or four days in the spring, with 50 and 00 purses, and not at all in the fall. And | l»eople interested in the maintenance of the old 1 method expected to be taken seriously when they declared that the niutuels "would not do" at cities i like Hamilton and Ottawa. — Francis Nelson in To- - ronto Globe.
