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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The horses of John Sanford and Cant. E. B. Cas-satt may not race at Belmont Park. John E. Madden has purchased the two-year-old colt Nebraska from Thomas Hitchcock. The Jockey Club stewards have tabled the application of A. Smith for a jockeys license. Former jockey Willie Shaw, who is summering at Plattsburg, was a visitor at Saratoga a day or two ago. Charles F. Hill has leased some horses from Clarence II. Mnckay and will have a string of eight at Belmont Park. The stewards of the Jockey Club have denied the applications of Frank Kearns and J. B. Dunn for trainers licenses. Trainer L. W. Garth has been schooling Shyness over the jumps and reports that the mare is showing aptitude for that style of racing. Capt. E. B. Cassatt will temporarily retire from racing, but will continue to conduct his breeding operations at Chesterbrook Farm, Berwyn, Pa. The stewards of the Jockey Club have again declined to reopen the case of Arthur Carter, ruled oil the turf in 1S0S in connection with the Beardall case. F. B. Hitchcock will represent the Jockey Club as steward at the Belmont Park meeting, ami C. K. G. Billings will act in a similar capacity at Piping Bock. At Mount Royal, Saturday, the two English-bred brothers. Canon Bridge and Gunbeaier, won their races. The latter ran a mile and a sixteenth in 1:11, ol" which the first mile was covered in 1:37. The filial sale of the season at the Saratoga track will be held by the Powers-Hunter Company on Thursday, when the Brighton Stable racers, John Sanfonls yearlings and Harry L. Montagues jumpers will pass under the hammer. Secretary Algernon Daingerficld of the Jockey Cliirt has returned to New York with glowing reports of the success of the Saratoga meeting. He says the meeting has been more successful than the most optimistic supporters of racing anticipated. T. C. Campbell, of New Orleans, wiio is spending a few days at Saratoga, is positive there will be no conflict of racing dates at New Orleans next winter. It is believed there will lie a harmonious division of the racing time between the Fair Grounds and City Park tracks. There is much speculation as to whether a race meeting will be attempted at Juarez the coming winter in view of the complicated conditions on the Texas-Mexican border. Manager M. J. Winn of tin; Jockey Club Juarez has made no official announcement of the plans of the club as yet. Leases of the racing qualities of various horses are reported by the Jockey Club as follows: Guy Fisher and Fencer, from Edward B. McLean to William P. Spurgeon; No News, from Julius Suden-tlorf to W. L. Oliver; Votary, from Haggin Estate to T. C. McDowell, and Alston, from Herman Otter-stedt to Mrs. W. P. Fine. M. J. AVinn is in New York for a few days after having spent some time at Laurel looking over the extensive improvements in progress there. He predicts that tiie Laurel track will be the fastest in America and is looking forward to a wonderful meeting there this fall. Entries for the stakes are coming in in. a highly satisfactory manner.
