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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The American-bred stallion Markie M. died recently - in Trindad, where lie has been doing stud 1 service. Hon. Johnson X. Camden, chairman of the Kentucky i- State Racing Commission, underwent a slight it operation in Xew York city Tuesday, lie is said d to lie on the road to recovery from his recent severe illness. Six of the Quincy Stable yearlings have been brought un from the Silver Brook Farm in Xew Jersey and turned over to Steve Lawler at Gravesend, where they will be broken and tried. A two-year-obi filly was aiso brought up from New Jersey for F. R. Doctor. In the course of the sales of yearlings at Newmarket on September 11 Johi Sanford, through an agent, gave the top price, of 0,800 for a fine bay lilly by Spearmint Veneration II., she being a half sister to Craganour, Glorviua and his own good colt, Nassoviau. She is to remain in England for racing and was turned over to trainer Joe Butters for education. Horsemen and regular followers of the turf in the east are almost unanimous against making the trip to Xew Orleans until something definite is known regarding the outcome of the squabble between the Business Mens Racing Association and II. 1. Brown. If matters are amicably adjusted Xew Orleans will liave the largest contingent of racing folk from that section ever assembled in the south. Foxhall P. Keene lias decided to confine his thoroughbred interests to breeding, and until such time as he trail race horses of his own breeding Ids colors will not be prominent. He will sell his racing stock, except a few mares, one of which, Puss in Boots,, is now in England. She will be mated with tlie most suitable sire in England. It is Mr. Kernes intention to procure other mares from which, he will raise his own racing material. There is some talk of a short meeting being held in Charleston, S. C, in the early spring. Several eastern stables will winter there and it is believed a meeting of two or three weeks duration would be welcomed at Charleston. Nothing definite can be learned at present, the prospect only having been suggested by one or two prominent promoters who were concerned in the recent meetings at Charleston. Quite a number of owners of small stables in the east are contemplating a winter at Tijuana, owing to its having one hundred or more days racing -without the necessity of moving from one track to another. Manager James Coffroths offering at the new Mexican track has had quite an assuring effect upon horsemen throughout this country and Canada, some of whom believe that Tijuana will grow into prominence as a winter racing resort. It is a curious fact that while raring and the market for yearlings are prostrated in England, stud fees are nominally up in the clouds, though a few or the highest have lately been reduced. Tracery, j whose fee last year was ,000, now stands at ,000. Prince Palatine, as yet an untried sire, is advertised at S2.000; The Petrarch, another untried one, at ,500, and his sire, Roi Herode. at the same fee. Other horses standing at ,500 include Bavardo, Lemberg, Sunstar. Swynford. White Eagle, Willonvx and Polymclus, the latter the leading sire of the last two years. AVilliam the. Thirds stud fee is 1,250. and Marrovils and Henry the Firsts are the same, while ,000 is the figure for Lord Derbvs Chaucer, Spearmint, Sunder and Tredennis. Meanwhile the yearlings by many of these horses are selling at auction for less than the stud fees of their sires. Xew York Herald.
