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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The Willis Sharpe Kilmer stable will race at Empire City. Jockey E. Pool celebrated his twenty-second birthday July 4. J. AV. Dayton claimed Goldy from J. M. Shilling at Fort Erie a day or two ago. Slumber II. and Koamer have been working well for their Empire City Handicap engagement. Silas Vcitch has shipped John F. Flanagan, Jr.s gelding Eadbald to Boston to be turned out. The seven-year-old horse Earl Koer.ig, by Ravols-ton Queen Anne II., died at Reno, New, last week. C. W. Clark and a party of friends have arrived at Reno in his private car and will spend a week in attendance on the races. Foreign-bred racers established a record in this country when Chicklet, Konkiss and Pinch finished in the order named in the fifth Aqueduct race- Friday. Martin Xnthanson left for Montreal last night to act as presiding judge at the Mount Royal meeting. Until his return his duties as racing secretary at Hawthorne will be discharged by Edward Jasper. In the future Mortgyle, 7, by Moitluke Ledalia, will help the breeding industry in Mexico. M. Jacobson has sold him to Gov. Estaban Cantu of Lower California. Mortgyle is a well-bred horse and is possessed of a strain of imported blood. C. Uairbrotl.cr will ride George Smith in the American Di-rby at the Hawthorne track. Chicago. He worked well for the race before being shipped from Xew York. The rest of the Sanford horses will go to Saratoga, where they will race fro-iiuently. Indications point to a high-class field in the Empire City Handicap, the feature of the opening : day at the Yonkers course. This event lias an 1 added value of ,500 and will be worth about ,500 to the winner. Roamer, Friar Keck, Chicle and Short Grass appear to be the leading candidates. William A. McDonald, well-known about the race tracks in Montreal. Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton and I Fort Erie, clied on Tuesday at his home in St. Marl: : street, Montreal. He was forty-five years of age, , a widower, and leaves three daughters. The dec-eased was born in Toronto, but had made his ; home in Montreal for some years. The remains ; were taken to. Toronto for burial. , Recoil, the Ogden Hamnierless filly, owned by the Thoriiclirfe Stable, died Wednesday night of a , twisted bowel. Recoil was a useful racer and won six of her last nine starts. As a two-year-old she outworked Calgary and was highly regarded as a ; broodmare prospect. This is the first horse that Mr. McDaniel has lost in the three years that he ; i has been training for Mr. Daviess. The papers in connection with the shipment of f thoroughbreds which fame over on the Minnehaha i show that the American owners of these animals s are as fcdlows: Senator J. X. Camden, Light Bri-gade and the broodmare Double Dark; Arthur P.. Hancock, broodmares Princess Caprice, Primula, , Merriment and Patricia IV.; P. A. Clark, broodmare Cerium; Willis Sharpe Kilmer, br Imaro Kouiague; ; A. J. Joyner, one yearling colt; It. T. AVilson, one i two-year-old colt. Thc jockeys who have attained more or less fame . at the Xew York race meetings this season, with others famous in years that are gone, have arranged . a big clam bake for Sunday, July 10. It t will be held at Dal Hawkins park in Westchester t- and the big feature of the clay will be a ball 1 game. The line-up for the riders will be: Willie . Kuapp, 3b; Johnny Loftus, If; Jimmy P.utwell, ss; II. Smith, c; P. Heffernian, lb; Tommy McTaggart, 2b;E. Wolke,- p; B. Fisher, p; R. Mulligan, cf; F. Martin, rf. Max Hirsch has taken up for early training three I yearlings which he purchased for Congressman Loft 1 during the early summer. One of these is the p chestnut colt by Golden Maxim Ultimate, which was bought at the Oxnard sale for ,000; the second 1 is a vearllng filly by Dallot Busy Lady, and the u third is a chesmit colt by Moclick Naughty Lady, ; the dam of He Will. Trainer Hirsch reports that t Murphv hit himself in his winning race for the L Union Selling Stakes ami is now temporarily out of 1 training in consequence. Silas Vcitch is responsible for the following story y concerning Dixon Park: A horseman was out west t buying high-class saddle horses and polo ponies. ;. In Nebraska he bought nearly a carload of good-priced - animals, and as there was room for just t one more in the car, the gentleman who had sold il them said to him: "Here, take this black gelding g with my compliments, he is of no use to me, but t you may have him for nothing just to fill up the e car." The black gelding thus referred to is now v known as the steeplechaser, Dixon Park.
