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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Lea Jones recently sold the three -year-old filly I. i- ldia to Pat White, owner of Gaiety Gtrbj Burlesque Company, for 1*888. Mr. White says. "the filly will be put into training I-Vbrnary 1. and prepared for the Lexington spring meeting, which opens the Kentucky racing season." i.icie i.ucilo p. has becoaec the most ceesrietend performer at New Orleans. She is one of the smallest horses at the Kiir Grenada but plows through the henry going like a giant. Pat. Kne-bh kamp new regards her as the mam stay of his string as -he lias wciii In r last three times out. Starter Dade has two competent a--i-tants at the Fair Crounds in Hilly Snyder and Jim Osborne. Snyder has been working with Dade since the latter became a start r and has done some good work as a starter himself in the west. OUhorne was as-i-t.uit to Mar- Cassidy for a number of years and has done the starting on the Northwestern Canadian circuit for the past four or five years. "Inaidc" Information is not neensaarito valuable At a recent South Australia race meeting the I ii-1 ClaM Plate was won by what the txiokmakers call "a Skinner.* The winner was an extreme outsider. Lady A. P... wheal owner thought she had no chance, and who-,- rah r was so careless that he lost both stirrups early in the race. She was absolutely unbacked in the straight machine, ami a soldier who had the only peace ticket BOM got all the money iu the place machine, hneut Ban to one.
