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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Matthew Corbotts Coquette has been showing good speed in her work of late and is about ready to make her 1110 debut. Kimball Patterson will ship three or four of the racers in his charge to Saratoga at the close of the Aqueduct meeting, and will race the others at Empire City. James McLaughlin has made up a carload of horses, which will lie shipped from Long Island to Chicago, July 11, to nice at the coming meeting of the Illinois Jockey Club. The officials for the King Edward Park meeting will be: Presiding judge, Sheridan Clark: associate judge, Frank Calder; starter, James Milton; clerk of the course, W. R. Booker; steward, Edward St. Pern; starting judge, N. R. Sutherland. The stewards of the Latonia meeting have cautioned jockey Roscoe .Goose to ride out his mounts in tlie future as a result of having pulled up the horse named for him at Latonia Saturday, when by riding him out he might have won third money. Fred Aut-rbach was a visitor at Aqueduct Saturday. He said he did not see any real chance for a resumption of racing at Charleston. He reported that Santo Sotille, the moving spirit in Charleston racing, is a candidate for election to the South Carolina legislature. The two-year-old filly, Spectre, is again under the care of William II. Karrick, having been purchased from the Qnincy Stable by II. K. Knapp of the Oneck Stable. Spectre was claimed out of the fifth race Wednesday after the Quincy Stables Chatterbox had been bid up. The Newbury Summer Cup Handicap of .,500 was run Saturday at Newbury. Fourteen horses went to the post and Captain R. Kidstons Aer-schott, ridden by Collin, won the race, a length ahead of W. Singers Prawle Point, with Smyth in the saddle. J. Coopers Cornsheaf, with Balding up, was third. J. C. Milam has returned to Latonia after a visit to Lexington. lie went to the blue grass region to look after fourteen yearlings belonging to J. X. Camden. Hi: will break them at the Kentucky Association track the coming fall. He has retired the fillies. Satin, Sard and llorniiom! at the Camden farm, also the racers Iron Master and Norunibega. Captain T. J. Clay has discovered that ill health will not permit him to serve in the judges stand for the coming meeting in Chicago and has sent a letter of declination to Thomas Carey. Cliris J. Fitzgerald, who was in the stand at Havana, will bo presiding steward at the meeting. It is said to be doubtful if Captain Clay will accept a reappointment in the stewards stand the coming fall on the Kentucky tracks. The big Spanish international race, the Grand Prize of Spain, was run at San Sebastian last Sunday in tlie presence of King Alfonso and a vast assemblage of spectators. The race was of the guaranteed value of 0,000, at a mile and a half, for three-year-olds, and was won by the French turfman J. D. Colin, with his bay colt Teddy, by Ajax Rondeau, Spirit finishing second and Meigs third. Meigs belongs to W. K. Vanderbilt, whose entry of four starters was the favorite. Jockey I. Connelly has signed a contract for one year with the firm of Middleton and Jones, of Louisville, which stable will be shipped to Saratoga after the close of the Latonia meeting. There are nine horses in the string. Connelly has been riding well of late. While waiting for tlie racing to open at Saratoga he will go to Chicago to ride at the Hawthorne meeting. Connelly is riding at 105 pounds these days, and trainer Dan Lelian, of the Middleton and Jones stable, is engaging his mounts for him. There will be a revival of racing at the Sheeps-head Bay course September 12, 14 and li, with six races each day. There are to be three races each day for the steeplechasers and three on the flat. Thi! meeting will be sanctioned by the National Steeplechasp and Hunt Association. The new association will be known as the Sheepshead Bay Hunts. Inc., with George P. Dillenbeck, Anderson T. Herd and Harry I. Harkness as incorporators. William A. Gorman, superintendent at the course, states that there will be but little work necessary to put the old steeplechase course in. condition for the racing.
