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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. A. G. Blakeleys Stable is quartered at Sheeps-head Ray. The stables of Eugene Wayland and Sandy Mc-Naughton have been shipped to Havre de Grace. William II. Karrick has taken over Sortie, Lottery and four yearlings belonging to M. L. Schwartz. John F. Schorr is attending the races at Belmont Park. He left his horses at Saratoga until he is ready to ship them to Kentucky. Jockev Joe McCahey. who has been an absentee from the saddle since the third Monday of the Saratoga meeting, is not expected to resume riding before the Maryland season opens. The onlv ten-thousa:id-pounder in England this vear will be the Jockey Club Stakes, which is to be run in October. Clarissimus, Kwaug Su and Nas-sovian are engaged, but Pommern and Fifinella are not. R. L. Gerrys latest cross-country acquisition. Sharpshooter, was sent over the schooling ground at Belmont Park and gave his trainer and jockey a surprise .by going over the jumps like a veteran without a mistake. H. Neusteter shipped Gibraltar to the new Kenilworth course at Windsor at the close of the Saratoga meeting, and apprentice jockey L. Lykes also made his way to that track. He will be under first call to J. B. Respess during the Kenilworth racing, and following that meeting will proceed to Havre de Grace. Boots. Oscar Lewisohns winner of the Dominion Handicap, will be shipped back to Canada to have a trv at the long-distance stakes to be decided at the Toronto course, if the plans of John Whalen do not go amiss. Boots pulled up son? in a recent trial at the Spa, but if he trains on he will be shipped to Woodbine. The track proper at Kempton Iark is laid out partiallv along the lilies of an old-time trotting course, the laud being part of the Laprairie "common" owned by tin government, and used for exhibitions and similar purposes. The old track was a half-mile affair, but a portion of it was utilized in building the present course. The old plant s tiny grandstand, which would seat three hundred people at the most still stands, but is overshadowed bv the enormous new structure on which carpenters are still working. The high outer fence of the ancient plant also came in handy. W. II. Karrick says that the colt Herodote II.. bv Fncle Uerodia. Iiought for the Glen Riddle Farms at the sale of Mrs. H. B. Duryeas imported thoroughbreds early in the spring, has been sent to the farm to remain until next season. This colt is a grand-looking fellow and is absolutely sound, but he grew so rapidly and put on so much weight that trainer Karrick considered him a hopeless proposition as far as two-year-old racing was concerned, aud so decided to make no further attempt to bring him to the races until he shall have entered his three-year-old form. James Rowe says that the three-year-old chestnut filly Hansa has been permanently retired from the turf. She has grown and thickened materially- since she began her career with exceptional brilliancy in her two-year-old form. She is now a grand, big mare of great length and substance, and mated with either Broomstick or Whisk Broom, her chances of producing real race horses should be excellent. She is by Hamburg Daisy F.. by that good race horse and sire, Kiley. by Longfellow, and out of the great race mare, Modesty, by War Dance. Thus it will be seen that Hansa is a sister to the famous broodmare Jersey Lightning, which produced Regret and Thunderer, by Broomstick.
