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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. W. F. Schulte will race several horses at Oriental Park during the coming meeting ami they will be trained by James Evcrman. Frank Uracil and a party of ten left Cincinnati, Sunday, for Havana, tc be on hand for the opening of the racing season at Oriental 1ark. U. C. Winfrey, who trains the horses of 15. Matheny, will race Jem, Woodward and a yearling chestnut filly by Trap Rock at Xew Orleans. The first colt foal sired by Leonid is out of the Sain mare Kiora and is now at Juarez in the stable of W. SIcLemore, the Texas turfman. He is a two-year-old and trainer ..Mum ford thinks highly of liini. Mumford lias also two yearlings in the stable, one a half-sister to Paw and. Nila. Dr. Swords, a starter in the fifth race at Juarez last Sunday, ran into the fence inside of the furlong pole and smashed his stifle. lie will never race again, according to his trainer. Jockey L. Itailey, who had the mount, had liis leg bruised and will be out of the saddle for a while. While the Kentucky Derby winner, Old Rosebud, is yet a picture of rugged and a bit shaggy, though healthful, horseflesh, he still posseses the nobly-grand even-tempered spirit of gentleness and kno.viiigness that stamped liini such a grand horse as a two and three-year-old. He is being galloped these days, and his hair is long and scragly from the eleven months stay on the McLcmore ranch. He will soon bo put under the clippers, and then he will look like his old self. Stable connections state that he is now fully 100 pounds heavier than when he was turned out last winter. Thomas Murphy, who for several years trained th stable of horses of the late Herman Duryea raced in France, returned here a few days ago. Murphy was practically lost sight of by the home crowd when lie went to France, but now that he is back again he is being sought by those who are shy a trainer. For several years lie looked after the horses owned by David Gideon. He was also with James Kowe. A. J. .Toyner, and also had a public training stable.. In France he did wonderfully well with the Duryea stable and but for the present European strife, would no doubt have remained there. He will try to buy a small string of horses next spring or start a public stable. Mrs. II. IS. Duryea, widow of the American sportsman, who raced with such success on both sides of the Atlantic, has presented the Societe dlliicouragcment, France, with a gold cup in memory of the success of Durbar II., when he captured the most coveted race in the world, the Epsom Derby. In telling of the presentation, a Paris publication says: "This gift, doubly precious as a mark of the excellency of French breeding and of a much envied success, was of even greater value as a token of the courtesy of an owner who came from America, and the handsome cup will find its place in the committee room side by side with the painting representing Uladiateur, which won the race in 1S05."
