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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Through pneumonia John Sanford has lost his imported two-year-old colt Lonato, by Hoiferiuo, from a male bv L.nlas Red Wing. This was a liall-brotlier to the crack two-year-old of 1814, Redfern. lie cost Mr. Senford ,550 and was held to be extremely promising. Prof. J. .1. Hopper, head of the Department of Animal Husbandry at the state University and li-rector of the Kentucky Racing Commissions Breeding Bureau, lias consigned the Si. Louis Derbj win ner. English Lad. the lust stallion purchased by the bureau, i F. T. Turner, county clerk of Ballard. Mr. I inner lives at Wiekliile. and the horse has been skipped iioie. II. T. Oxnard bred sosse of the best mares in his stud to Sir Wilfred last year, among them being Bohemia dam of Trojan, winner of the 1614 lu-turlty, Dettie Bramble, Grey Amies. Lute. Nota-sulga. Marjoram, Auntie Mum dam of spun. Proud Hue, less. Mary Stuart dam of Royal Martyr, Santa Catalina, Sandy Ear I dam of Lady Botha, Verdict, Torchlight and Wealth. A dispatch from Omaha to an eastern newspaper reports tl • death there last Friday of e-.i ckej Charles Thorpe of pneumonia. In the nineties Thorpe was om- of the foremost of American Jock eya, a rider of peat skill. Judgment and a powerful hi tsher. Much of his riding was done over Chicago Hacks. For a number of years he rode the noted California firm of Duni- ft Water bouse horses and a IS well known oast :i it, l west.
