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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. J. S. Everman will take Sir Wellons and Royalton to Havana to race for W. F. Schulte. The special horse train from Kentucky to Havana will leave Latonia November 8, instead of November 7. Racing at Saratoga Springs was so thoroughly successful that on Tuesday there was a dividend of five per cent, declared, and it is payable to the stockholders at once. S. C. Hildreth lias accepted an invitation to go duck hunting down on Long Island, as the guest of his particular friend. Tommy Murphy, the famous trotting horse driver. Mars Cassidy will fill the position of starter at Juarez the coining winter, as usual. His assistants, M. Cassidy, Jr., William Howard and Lester Dean, will go there next week. The high commissioner for Australia advises the London papers that the race for the Craven Plate at Sydney was won by Carlita, whose earnings now amount to more than 5,000. Harry Hake, architect and builder of the Cincinnati baseball clubs grandstand and the. speedway at Sharon, has been commissioned to build the new race track at Rosedale, Ky. Leland Sterry, manager of The Breakers in Florida,, and the Grand Union Hotel at Saratoga Springs, was a visitor at the offices of the Jockey Club Tuesday. While he was there he was presented with one share of the Saratoga Association stock and the check for five per cent, dividend that goes with it, for Leland Sterry II., "who is "now just eighteen months old. The presentation was made by President Richard T. Wilson and Secretary Andrew Miller of the association. W. K. Vanderbiits Meigs, a bay son of Peter Pan and Meggs Hill, was winner of two of the best prizes offered in France during September. The racing was at Caen, and on September 5 he was winner of a seven and a hjjlf furlong stake for three-year-old colts that was worth 10,000 francs. Then two days later he also scored over the same distance in a race of like value and framed for three-year-olds and four-year-olds. In each of these races he took up 128 pounds and was ridden by Frank ONeill, the American jockey.
