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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. There have already bien received thirty-one Bob-t-eripiions for the Piping Rock Subscription Handicap for two-year-olds to be decided over the Locust Valley course in Jane. This list will probably be ■ unsideratdy swelled when the mail entries are in. and eeretarv Bryan confidently expects that the . lace will have a value of at least 118,808. Following a conference between Colonel Winn and I the Carransa delegation last Friday, announcement j Was made thai Col. W. E. Applegate had renewed his contract for the betting privileges at tile Juarez track. According to rumor. Colonel Applegate will have charge of affairs for the next twenty days. wilii an option to renew his contract if conditions ; warrant continuing betting operations. A feature that is attracting great attention at 1 New Oilcans is the new automatic weighlng-in series that have been placed in the center of the Fair Ciounds paddock. This is the latest improvement : in the automatic scale line for jockeys and Hie idea of placing the magniticeut machine on a cement base iii the middle of the paddock where j x kevs " wBl be weighed in full view of the specta-!• is. is on- oi the latest innovations for Now Orlejus. A feme lias been built around the scale with openings for the jockeys to enter and leave.
