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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Presiding Judge Martin Nathanson is after the rough riders at Maisonneirve. H. Neusteter has been engaged to train The Dean and Heather Moon for the rossways Stable. John S. Barbee has at his Glen-Helen Stud a yearling sister and a suckling brother to the Kentucky Handicap winner. Ed Crump. Godfrey Precce has purchased Etruscan from P. S. P. Randolph. The latter horseman took the plater out of a selling race at Jamaica on Thursday lor ,500. Grant Hugh Browne is about to depart for England to attend the Newmarket sales with the idea of buying more theroughbreds. He was an extensive buyer last season. Ed L. Wcnrick, of Mechanicsburg. Pa., has purchased tlie library of horse books belonging to the late Gen. W. G. Harding and General Jackson, of Belle Meade Stud, Nashville, Tenn. James P. Edwards. Louisville. Ky.. has recently purchased Lady Trebla, brown mare by Albert out of Lady I-ongstroot II. . by Longfellow. She has been bred to Thomas M. Murphys Voter stallion. Boots ami Saddle. R. T. Wilsons Montresor is temporarily on the shelf with a minor ailment, and Naushon. in the same stable, has a quarter crack. Tartar has been racing so disapimintingly that he will be turned out lor a time unless he soon shows improvement. King Herod. Grant Hugh Brownes big two-year-old son of Colin and the English mare, Acalot, is attracting no little attention at Jamaica just now. although it is not probable that he will be sent to the post for some weeks yet. King Herod was a large and heavy colt when he first came over, and now. although iie has had occasion to learn what real training means, he appears to have lost little, if any, of his weight.