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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. James McLaughlin has decided to retire the three-year-old chestnut filly, Celandria, for the remainder of the year. Lewis Garth will ship his big string of thirty-four thoroughbreds from Belmont Iark for Iiurel Friday night. All of the Belmont yearlings at Saratoga there are twenty of them have been brought down to Belmont Park. Hal Daly, son of W. C. Daly, has purchased two imported three-year-olds from August Ilelmout and will race them. The meeting just closed at Blue Bonnets is described as moderately successful. It is said that speculation showed a falling oft as compared with the spring meeting. Messrs. Johnson and Billings will leave their large and valuable stable of imported thoroughbreds at Belmont Park in charge of trainer Charles T. Patterson until January 1. Then they will be transferred to Hot Springs. Albert Simons went to Havre de Grace Sunday, taking with him from tin; AVhitney stable Ronnie Witch, Borrow, Hubble. Golden Rod, Regina and Kilts. James Rowe has taken the others of the string to Brookdale Farm. On the last day of September, thirty-five yearlings will be shipped from Saratoga to Ilelmout Park, most of them belonging to Schuyler L. Parsons and the Oneck Stable. They will be consigned to trainer W. II. Karrick. Paddock Judge J. L. Hall lias been engaged by a wealthy New York gentleman, who hitherto has had nothing to do with racing, except as a spectator, to go to Maryland and select for him ten or twelve useful race horses for the beginning of a racing stable. A meeting of the stockholders of the Devonshire Iark Haciug Association was held at. Montreal, Saturday, and the following officers wen? elected: President. T. .1. Duggan; vice-presidents, the lion. Dr. Ilea tune, Denis Tansey. S. A. Griggs; directors, Grant Hugh Browne, S. P. Howard, Capt. W. J. Press and r. G. Dimitre. Although a majority of the race goers had wagered on Spur and Crimper to win the Lawrence Realization at Belmont Park Saturday, there was no one present who begrudged A. K. Macombcr his victory. He had played the game for months like a thorough sportsman, meeting defeat after defeat with a smile. His friends and the public, too, knew this, and when his colors flashed home in front, winners and losers alike cheered and everywhere, even in the free field, where thousands had gathered, could be heard, "I am glad Mr. Macombcr has won a stake, lie deserves it."
