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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. j C. Buxton, acting for G. AV. Glick, has purchased Sasin and Dervish. Ed Alvey. ch. c. 2. by Jack Atkin Chablis, belonging to Baker and Adair, died last week of pneumonia at the Latonia track. Dragoman, a son of Rock Sand, recently sold by August Belmont to Matt Byrnes, will be shipped to Eatontown, N. J., where he is to enter the stud. F. IT. Spronle has shipped the two-year-old bay filly Torment, by Detective Mischief Maker, to Kenilworth Park, where she will race under the name of the Coronada Stable. A. Pickens rode Harbard at Blue Bonnets September 4, and McDermott piloted All Steel the same day. An error was made in sending out the names of the jockeys from the track. The Quincy Stable has sold to Lewis AA. Garth two fillies which are to be retired to the stud by their new owner. They are The Minx, br. f, 2, by Irish Lad Artless, purchased at the Duryea sale last May, and Angela K., b. f, 2, by Celt Please. II. II. Hewitt will race Meditation and Mission Rell in Kentucky this fall. Cantara. Star Maid and Avis will be turned out until next spring. Mr. Hewitt will have nine or ten horses to race in Kentucky next year. Pan Maid will be retired to the stud next year. As a trainer Thomas J. Ilealey is modest and : undemonstrative, but after Campfirc. had won the Futurity, Saturday, he was profoundly gratified. It was a victory which seemed to especially appeal to him. He had believed in the colt all along, tint the son of Olamabla and Nightfall had given him much trouble and anxiety earlier in the season. At times he was so lame as to appear on the verge of a breakdown, but what witli slirewd and painstaking handling and management he got him into form, and when he went to the post for the Hopeful he was thoroughly sound and fit.
