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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Blue Cap, in the stable of V. 1. Kkag af New Orleans, is deserilied as a lilly requiring a slruig rider. Norus and Jawbone have been showing much sore ness in their work at the New Orleans Fair C rounds. Ueo. C. Love. one of J. W. Schorrs tw i year olds. is expected to make :i tietter sliowing as the ds-tlinces of the races arc lengthened. The arrangement of dates tor Marylands soring racing brings the lose at Baltimore a couple of davs before the opening of the Canadian season at Woodbine. 1. Ambrose Clark has sent his steeplechase mare • Savannah by Yankee -Cattrpo, to Bilverbp ok Farm, near Shrewsbury, N. J., w here she will be mated to i Garry Herrmann, or Dallwuisie. Short Crass, the st:ir of the Linil Herz establishment, lias begun to work at New Orleans after a winters respite, but will hardly be ready ha do any raeing before the Crescent City season ends. Trainer Ed Oleason and Bteepchaee rider "Bed" Simpson are two of Woodbines contribution to the enlistment ware In Canada. Simpson has joined the artillery, and Gleason g.ws with the Bportameaa ; Battalion. Pretty Polly, ojto of the best ami that ever • need in England, has been a pronounced failure at the stud. An English critic, in a recent reference to her, nld that up to the present she had not thrown anything good enough to eeu win a hunters flat ran-. Starter A. B. Dade has been commended from all sides on bis excellent work with the harrier at the Fair GrOMda meeting at New Orleans. He et-the big fields away equally as well as the sui;i]1 ones. At the conclusion of the New Orleans meeting he will rest until time to take up his duties at Bowie. Senator J. N. Camden. J. C. Milani. J. Temple Qwathaaey. F. Ambrose lark. P. A. Clark, Jack Wearer, S. K. Nichols, s. K. Hughes and D. A. Langhorue have taken subscriptions to A. P. Hancocks Imported stallion. Wrack. Mr. Swathniej lias also reserved i seasons to the hone for 1817 and F. Ambrose Clark lias taken two season lot the same year. The two-year-ohl colt Thorn Bloom, parchased at the sale of t wo year-ob Is from August P.elmonts 1-reiieh breeding establishment b. Mr. Maxwell, is at Oraveseml in charge of trainer .lames Pitssim mon-. lie was sick afti- his arrival there, and at one time his recovery appeared doubtful, but under Or. MeCull.vs rare he pulled through and now is reported as all runt again. Electric Dark, one of Baltimores bait" mile traeks. has been sold an. I will be the scene of a big suburban developmenl. Tic papers have just been signeil and so n the dance pavilion, the clubhouse. the grandstand and fewces will all be tilings of the past; new Btteeta uiil run aeioss Hie tract, lots will be offered for sale and dwellings, shops anil places of business will tie rising on the site of the former amusement resort and race track. It is reported that there will be seventy-two days f racing in Germany. Tien- are three American horsemen still in Germany, with little prospect that Others will go over this year, unless jockey Willie SJiaw should decide to ret ii-ii and ride for Baron Weinberg. Fred Taral is still there training for the Weinberg stabbs. while Wither- Mei reel;, handles the horses of Baron Oppenheimer. George Archibald, who has been riding for Banon Oppenheimer fi r four years, is aK.. there. Owners ideas as to how horses should be treated in races often mean trouble for those who train them. Some horses do not require either whip or spur, but with others the us,- of both is n»i *aaaij Touching on this an English writer in mentioning the death recently of Janes R an. a well-known Newmarket trainer, who. among other important winners, prepared Springfield, says that the late Mr. H. J. Houldsworth. foe wl.unie Kyan trained nearly tifi rears, was opposed to both whip and spur. In consequence some of Mr. Houldsworths horses simply loafed la their races, and then, when they went lata other ownership, where punishment was inn barred. Showed vastly improved form. This occasionally caused Ryans ahUlty as a trainer to tie questioned by those who were unaware of the dis- advaatase aadei which he labored In having to treat all Mr. HooldBWOrthl horses in the same fashion, whether they were sluggards or free gsera.
