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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. John Henry lias purchased the horse John Beardon from It. G. Marlin. The speedy mare Fascinating is one of the recent arrivals at Juarez from Tijuana. Race 30102. won by Cecil November 25, was at a mile in 1:40, instead of at a mile and an eighth. G. W. J. Bissells string of twelve horses has been shipped to New Orleans in charge of trainer James Gass. Late entries for the Saratoga stakes, which closed Monday, have brought totals unprecedented. There are now in the Hopeful 200, United States Hotel 199, hand Union 109, Spinaway 148 and Grab Bag Handicap 72. B. T. Wilson has favored the get of his own sire, Olambala, in making his entries. In the Spinaway Stakes he lias entered three Olan-bala fillies, while in the United States Hotel Stakes he has three Olaii-.balas, one Helmet and one Star Shoot to represent him. Walter B. Jennings unquestionably thinks mighty well of the sons and daughters sired by Uncle that he now has in training for A. K. Macomber, as is evidenced by the number of yearlings of this breeding that he has entered In the Saratoga stakes for two-year-olds to be run next August. Messrs. A. J. Joyner, Robert Walden and James Fitzsimmons of New York, have arrived at Lexington for the Kentucky Sales Companys auction of thoroughbred horses, today at Tattersalls. J. J. Leonard, Portland. Me., O. H. Eckford, Helena, Ark., and J. F. McConnell, of Sprlngwater, Saskatchewan, Canada, also arrived. The good French-bred horse Frizzle, bought by n. K. Knapp from the H. B. Duryea estate last May, readied Lexington from New York to go into the stud at Hal Price Headleys Beaumont Farm. He is by the great French long-distance racer Binou Frlzettc, by Hamburg, and won two races at Saratoga last August. In France, when a two-year-old, he won the Prix Cltronelle at La Tremblay, of the net value of 0,800, ami the Prix Flageolet of ,400 at the same track.
