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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Mortimer Mahoney will have charge of tho pari-mutnel plant at ThorncIilTe Park. I. Howell claimed Frosty Face from J. IT. Moody out of tho eighth race Monday at Hillcrcst Park for 80. Jockey Knight was suspended for disorderly conduct in tho jockeys room at Hillcrest Park Monday lefore the races. Owners of steeplechasers are anxiously awaiting the opening of Saratoga, a steeplechase being provided for every day of tho meeting. Making a gelding of Ilwfa has not improved tho temper of the good-looking son of Hamburg Dove-let, for he is still a mean, unruly horse. A. K. Macombers three-year-old Sunstar colt War Star, which, made his only start of tho year in the Kentucky Derby, is said to be rounding into form and may bo seen in action at Saratoga. New York turr patrons are hoping that the Jockey Club will provide more racing over the Metropolitan tracks this fall than tho fifteen days allotted to tho AVestchester Racing Association at Belmont Park. Manager Rerger of Thorncliffo Tark declares that there will be plenty of horses for the meeting opening July 21, despite the stand taken by the Thoroughbred Horse Association prohibiting its members from racing at that track. Walter Miller, leading American jockey in 1900 and 1007, intends to go to Australia next month and will, it is said, make an effort to ride over there. The high weights which prevail in Australia may make it possible for him to get back in tho saddle Hopes are entertained that the colt Happy Go Lucky may develop into a high-class racer, for he is one of the few remaining entire male representatives claiming Hamburg for sire. Borrow, Slnmberer, Dreamer and Buskin, best of the recent Hainburgs, are geldings. Trial by Jury, for which Wilfred Viau of Montreal paid 0,000 at Saratoga last summer, never looked better than he does right now, and ho never trained sounder, but he will not carry his speed farther than three-quarters of a mile. He has become a boneless rogue apparently. Pennant, by far the most brilliant handicap horse which raced in Maryland during the course of the Havre de Grace and Pimlico spring meetings, has not raced since the Whitney horses reached New York. He has "a leg." The same is true of both Dominant and Thunderer, which James Rowe felt confident back in the spring would train.
