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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. There are now 715 horses. 170 of them two-year-oUa, Stabled at New Orleans. Cape. H. H. Emmons, who used to race ltif-dolpo. is needed in Chicago to cdear up some unfinished business left when he was last here. It. is said that Missouri is to be asked to p;.ss ■ racing law. which will tax race tracks 11,600 a elay. 1.. go to the good roads fund of the state, fifty per "lit of the net profits are also to be turn. -el into the same fund. The Tennessee racing bill, which is to go before the legislature soon, provides, that fifty per cent oi" the net pre. fits go to the county fairs of the state and fifty per cent to be used exclusively for the- live stock and agricultural advancement of the state. The association is to pay no dividends.
