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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. II. E. Steward is handling the horses of J. W. Fuller at Hot Springs. The Maryland legislature is scheduled to adjourn thai die the coming Saturday. It is expected that the Oravesend track will be in condition for the horses to work over by Saturday. Jockey Roscoe Troxler has arrived at New York from Havana. He will go to Raltimore and will ride as a free lance at Rowie. Ilitchy Koo. by Watercress Lychoe Nut. won the Club Handicap, one and a quarter miles, at Port Elizabeth. South Africa, on February 5. Trainer A. J. Cohlsborough plans to ship Roamer and several of the more promising of Andrew Millers two-year-olds to Kentucky in the near future. Henry Waterson has a useful string of horses at Oravesend in charge of trainer Joseph Edwards, who expects to ship them to Raltimore early next week. J. I. Odom. Jr.. will take a small division of George Odssns stable to the Maryland circuit, but the exact date for the shipment has not yet been decided upon. II. II. Hewitt has :i particularly fine-looking maiden tlireo-ycar-old in his string at Oravesend. This is Meditation, a big brown colt by Peep oDay Coy Maid. He is a brother to Coy I,ad. Superintendent II. I. Ielz. of the I.elmont Park track, already has a greater number of applications for stalls for the spring meeting at that track than can be accommodated. The excess is fully a hundred. On account of the backwardness of the eastern season. W. R. Cues Neville II.. Mustard and White Hackle will not fill their engagements for the Kentucky Derby. Neither will Foxhall I. Koines Churchill go to Kentucky for the same reason. Mr. Watersons good four-year-old colt Runes has been sick with influenza, but he has fully recovered and is ready to go on with his preparations for the coining season. His appears to have been the last case of influenza at Oravesend. Jockey Eddie Taplin. who is under contract to ride for George M. Odom this season, visited Oravesend Sunday morning for the first time since his return from Havana. When he arrived in New York early last week the unseasonably cold weather exerted a expressing influence upon him. being in disagreeable contrast to the bright siimmerlike temperature of the Cuban capital. Theodore Smith, who is George M. Odoms principal backer on the turf, visited his horses at Craves end Sunday and after looking them over went to Relmont lark. where he intends refitting one of the big stables upon the plan adopted by . II. Karrick and several other trainers occupying quarters at the big track. It Is Mr. Smiths intention to fit up a permanent training stable at Relmont lark. which will 1m- eccnpsed by the Odom string as headquarters throughout the year. Oeorgc Zeigler. who is training the horses of Frank Nolans Roverwyok Stable, has shipped Unstable from G rare send to Louisville. Lena Miaha is entered for the Kentucky Derby, while Old K..e nig. Henry Jr.. and other animals in the string have Kentucky erigsgementa which their owner is desirous of seeing them fill. They have wintered well and have been given plenty of shed training, but they are all high in flesh. Lena htiaha is a graad-loofciag eott, and his present condition indicates that he has had no little indoor preparation, but with all this he is still gross for a three -year -old intended fsr a bruising race as early in the season as the big Kentucky classic is run. The unwelcome news comes that W. K. Coos fashionably bred English mare Blbaty Belle, seven years old. by Soliman Rosltn, his slipped twin foals to the fatuous English Derby winner Cicero. This is the second misfortune of the kind siilTered by-Mr. Coe, for it was only about a month ago dial his English broodmare lb -renice. nine rears old. by St Simonian II.. slipped a foal to Valens. Roth mates were at Silverbrook Farm, near Red Rank. N. J. This mare Berenice was a royally bred animal vvitii a rather naaaaal history. Hue was foaled in tins country, sent back to England and finally breughl back by Mr. Coe. Her sire was a son of St. Simon and her dam was by Bend Or out of the great English inure shotover.
