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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Mr. Dupont, who is one of the moving spirits in the AVilmington Horse Show Association, is arranging for a two-day hunt meeting near AVilmington, Del., next autumn. II. A. Buck is spending a few days at Lake-wood. On the twenty-ninth he will sail for Nassau, Bahama Islands, where he will spend several weeks during the winter months. Charles F. Hill, who leased Trouble Fete, Esprit, Oaulois, Baffouilleur and Mahwah from Clarence Mackay, has entered them in the Belmont fixtures. They have been in this country since last spring, but never started. The race for the world famous Melbourne Cup, which was to have been run November 7, was postponed because rain had rendered the Flemington track unsafe to run over. The only previous postponement was in 1870. James Park, owner of Duke of Duluth and other jumpers, has returned from the Mexican border. He has been there with one of the mounted troops and will have a starter in the Meadowbrook Club Steeplechase on Thanksgiving Day. Tom Mumford, who races a small string of horses in nis own name besides training for the AVade McLemore stable, has received from the McLemore breeding farm four head, which now gives him eight head to look after for the Juarez winter meeting, which opens Thanksgiving Day. The two-year-old colt Joyland, by Fariman AVnvey Belle, reported among the horses destroyer, I by the Bowie fire, was a useful racer in England this year. There out of seven races, he won three and was placed in two more. It was expected that after becoming acclimatized, he would do well in our racing. The yearlings which Thomas Welsh brought over for Jospeh E. AVidener constitute an important and valuable shipment, this being especially true of the thirteen bought of Edmond Blanc, but owing to the long and rough voyage to which they were subjected they were twenty-one days aboard ship, all of them look rough and some of them thin in flesh. The late F. J. Pons was fifty-four years of age when he died aud a native of the state of Florida. He was twice a member of the legislature of that state. His father was state treasurer of Florida for rears. Mr. Pons was at one time manager of the "Jacksonville track when racing was at its zenith in that city and was also manager of the Charleston, S. C, race track. Running Shot, owned by Ralph D. Earle, and several other iiorses destroyed by fire at the Bowie race track Tuesday night, were covered by policies in the Hartford Fire Insurance companys horse department. John A. Payne of Cincinnati, general agent of the company, will be at the Bowie track Thursday for the purpose of adjusting these losses. Such prompt attention is greatly appreciated by the horsemen. : 1
