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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The correct time of race 291S1 was 1:47, not 1:45 as first received. The stables of J. B. Respess and Bob McMillan arrived at Latonia from Windsor last week and the former has sent ten of his twelve horses in training to Louisville to race. Three jockeys are connected with the Respess stable, including L. Gentry, O. Gentry and T. Buckles. A cablegram from London announces the death of Sydney Paget, which took place last Saturday at the age of fifty-nine. A dozen years ago he was a leading figure in New York racing, a lavish buyer at the big Iiaggin sales and, in the course of years, the putative owner of a number of crack racers. Lough Foyle is a bright bay horse something over sixteen hands high, and he covers an exceptional amount of ground for a horse of his height. His chief marking consists of a good-sized blaze, but he lias one or two white feet. He is a particularly impressive looking horse, as he has a long, clean, muscular and bloodlike neck, oblique shoulders, great lung space and depth through the heart, and a long, heavy body with well sprung back ribs and carrying the weight right back into the flank. Among the horsemen remaining at Belmont Park during the Havre de Grace meeting is Thomas J. Byer, who lias P. S. P. Randolphs True as Steel, Onwa and Canterbury Tales. This last-mentioned colt was imported by Messrs. Johnson and Billings as a yearling last fall, but was hurt across the back and was on the shelf for a considerable time. Trainer Byer bought him for P. S. P. Randolph at a moderate figure, and now he seems to be taking his work satisfactorily. This trio will leave for Laurel about September US. Nine yearlings belonging to R. T. Wilson, and seventeen the property of August Belmont, have arrived at Belmont Park. Among Mr. Wilsons nine were a brother to Campfire and a sister to Fantam Bala. Both are good-looking youngsters. The seventeen belonging to Mr. Belmont are Kcn-tiieky-brcds, which spent the latter part of the summer at Saratoga for education. All youngsters have shipped well. The Wilson yearlings have been in- charge of Patrick Dwyer, while Foreman William Brennan lias had the Belmont lot in hand.
