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1 CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. II. S. Combs sold the two-year-old brown filly Mabel 11. to John F. McConnell of Toronto. Dr. J. D. Neet of Versailles. Ky., purchased the broodmare Rusty Coat from T. E. Cummiugs of Windsor. There are nineteen horses in the C. K. G. Billings string at the Fair Grounds in charge of Charles Patterson. Charles Waltring is a late arrival at New Orleans. Waltring came from Louisville and will have charge of the Palm Garden again. M. Yourell, the steeplechase jockey who was suspended last year for rough riding, has been reinstated and will ride as a free lance next season. Duke of Ormonde, which was knocked down to T. B. Jones at the Iroquois Stud dispersal sale, is now the property of J. E. Madden and will stand at Hamburg Place. Holland Bros., of Silver City, N. M., have heard the call of the turf again, and are contemplating getting together a good stable. It is understod these horsemen will patronize the Juarez course. The Blue Grass Farm of P. J. Millett, deceased wealthy turfman, was sold at auction last Friday to William H. Whaley. Jr., of Paris, Ky. It consists of 328 acres, and brought 75 per acre, aggregating 7,400. John E. Madden sold last week to J. .T. Leonard, acting for parties in Portland, Maine, the French-bred stallion Patand, and the nine-year-old mare. Playground, by Hurst Park Sumida, by The Sailor Prince, next dam Saluda, by Mortemer. Kentucky turfmen are considerably interested in the decision Judge Samuel B. Kirby will hand down in a few days in the case of the Douglas Park Jockey Club against the Kentucky Racing Commission. No matter what his decision may be the case will be appealed. Lou Tauber, who has taken over one division of the Livingston stable, left Saturday for Charleston where he will prepare his charges for their spring and summer campaign. There were twenty-four horses in the shipment. Livingston has some promising youngsters in the band. In speaking of the result of the sale by which his Iroquois Stud was dispersed, Garret D. Wilson expressed himself as satisfied. Mr. Wilson said: "I am out of the breeding end of the sport for good, as 1 no longer own a hair in any horse, but I think my next venture will be to buy some good young prospects and race them." Much interest is being taken by horsemen regarding the selection of a successor to the late W. H. Laudeman as inspector of pari-mutuels on the Kentucky tracks. Among those mentioned as likely to secure the position are Harry Myers, Gene Elrod, Tom Cromwell, Charley Bollinger, W. H. Shelley, John Ireland and John McLaughlin. A stable hand of Paul Miles started to take King Box, his old campaigner, to the boat at New Orleans Saturday morning to load him for shipment to Havana, but the next heard of the horse was when a telephone message was received at the Frair Grounds saying that a man was trying to sell a race horse on Canal street. King Box never did show up at the boat, although the vessel was held ten minutes for him, and all efforts to locate either the horse or the man who was in charge of him, have prored futile.
