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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. J. Drever will ride for the Brownleigh Park Stable. James McLaughlin. Jr.. has retired from the turf and turned over the horses he had in charge to his father. Altera is being schooled for jumping. W. P. Bureh has arrived at Jamaica with Corsiean and other horses. Capt. E. B. Cassatt opened the season with a bit of bad luck. His good filly Flying Fairy was cut down in the Paumonok Handicap and will be on the shelf for a time. Fred Burlew will arrive in this country in July with a number of Clarence Mackay yearlings which will lie offered at auction. These youngsters are at present in France at Mr. Mackays stud. It is announced that A. B. Dade will do the starting at the spring meeting of the Dorval Jockey Club, opening on Monday, May 29. Francis Nelson will be presiding judge, and Jospeh McLennan clerk of the scales. J. Temple Gwathmey has purchased Belle of Bryn Mawr and Allepo from A. P. Humphrey. Jr., and shipped the pair to his Warrenton, Vu.. farm. They will lie hunted in that country, and the first-named should give an excellent account of herself, as she is a most promising timber-topper. Louis Martine will bring to the races this year a sou of Plaudit and Ivabel, the latter a consistent mare, which lnĀ»re his silks a few years back. She was a daughter of Ivory Bells, the dam of Old Rosebud. Martine has not named this future racer as yet, but believes he will be known to fame as Senator Hughes.