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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF W. C. Marty, employed in the pari -niiitiiel department . at Reno, has left there to answer a call 1 to the colors. Today at Iteno. a numlier of horses racing at that I f track will Ik- disposed of at auction in the paddock immediately prior to the afternoons races. Tippity Witchet is quite forward in his training g and it may tie that the popular little racer of last t fall will soon lie seen sjtortiiig the silks of his s owner John Kanford. Edward Arlington, who lx.ught the chestnut colt t Coi on. do at the San ford sale Tuesday for 50. 1. has sold tie- colt to Bert Williams. Coronado cost Mr. Sanford SS.tMKt as a yearling. H. 1". Whitneys grand filly Rosie OGrady is in training at Itclniont Park and. as she is displaying good form in her work-outs, the best of the three year-old division will soon have to look to their laurels. Frank Gardner, a former partner of the well-known turfman Newton Deiinington. who raced the famous filly Beldame, by Octagon— Delia Denna. bv Hermit, was a visitor at A«|Ue tuct. lie said that he had been out of racing for half a dozen years or more, when the splendid colt Statesman broke his b« in the Pri-akins- Stakes at Baltimore. At BfCaeul Mr. Gardner is engaged in commercial pur suit-, but he still iias a warm spot in his heart for his old love.
