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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Dillard Hill, Lexington, Ky., turfman, is on the way to Juarez with a shipment of fifteen thoroughbred race horses. E. J. OConnell has added two horses to his string. He took up Airline and Gcrthelma Wednesday. Jockey Tommy Henry will do most of the riding for Mr. OConnell at Juarez. Phil T. China and Henry McDaniel sailed on the steamship St. Louis last Sunday for England to purchase broodmares, yearlings and two-year-olds at the coming December sale, which opens December 4. Useeit will not race at Juarez the coming winter, but in her stead her brother, Utelus, a four-year-old, also a grand sprinter, will carry the colors of the Tulsa, Okla., turfman, II. Webb, who has besides that gelding an extensive stable, including the veteran Husky Lad. Trainer Frank D. Weir is the happiest man on the race track these days. The cause for all the joy is the fine condition in which Old Rosebud came back from his long rest at the McLemore Farm. Mr. Weir expects the little champion to go along to great deeds on the turf in his comeback. The English colt Omar Khayyam, which finished less than a length behind Campfire in the rich Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga last August, will be taken to New Orleans as a member of the Killings and Johnson string. Whether he will be raced there or not, it is there that he will be given his preliminary training for the Kentucky Derby.
