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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Eleven bookmakers are laying odds at Tia Juana. Ambrose Dunn of San Francisco Is the latent to Join the rank- of the layers there. For the Tia Juana meeting it is claimed that t ere arc dail.v arrival* of borsei and that close to four hundred are now at the track. Fred Foster lias shipped Tiajan. Galea* lathe, Volant and Ataka from New Orleaus to Havana to join the rest of G. A. Alexandras horses at Oriental Park. Information has been received at New Orleans of the death of Herman Hoeael, who left there recently in a ba.l way for bis home in Brooklyn. Hoeael at one time rode for R. K. W.itkins. and also campaigned several horses owned by himself, including Working Lad. He died shortly after I reaching home. Horsemen at the Juarez track seem highly pleased with the new rule which prohibits the claiming .■! ■ beaten bersa in a seHlna race. This rub- was |..i~-e.| beeaaee of the activity of "gypsies" racing there, who would claim a harM out of one of the HJ top Hiid bottom races and immediately depart tor Tia Juana. It is claimed that in several in-stances the horsemen did not have money enough to claim a bane, and that the funds were fur-pished by persons directly interested in the Tia Juana plant.
