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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF W. R. Coe has a two-year-old at Relmont Park of which trainer W. II. Karrick entertains high hopes. The youngster is a filly named Masked Dancer, a daughter of Disguise Tripping. Daily Racing Form is in receipt of a letter from a Rochester. X. Y.. hospital requesting the present address of George Davis, a turfman. Mrs. Davis is seriously ill, and it is feared she cannot recover. Mrs. Margaret Carey, wife of Thomas E. Carey, owner of the Hawthorne race track and well-known on the turf when racing flourished in Chicago, died yesterdity following an operation for appendicitis. A. K. Macombers Tracksend, which was turned out and not raced as a three-year-old last year, will return to the turf this coming spring in fine bodily condition and ready for a strenuous campaign. There are eleven two-year-olds in the A. K. Macomber stable, all by Uncle, which were purchased from Messrs. Miller and Headley last .year at private sale. There were thirteen in the original band, but one died and trainer Jennings was forced to destroy another one. According to reports from the east the filly Polygon, which raced in the silks of W. R. Coe last year, will be retired to the stud and bred to Sweep. Polvgon is a fashionably-bred daughter of Polymelian Sainte Claire II., and should prove a winner as a brood mare. Camoufleur, which W. Viaii purchased from Galla-her Bros, at the conclusion of the Kentucky fall season last year, has put on nearly 200 pounds iince goiug into winter quarters at Relmont Park, and may prove a useful racing tool fy the Canadian sportsman in the three-year-old division this year. Trainer Walter Jennings never lost his admiration for War Cloud, even when the colt did not rii ui to expectations. He is still enthusiastic over the handsome son of Polymelius, and says he I the fastest horse he ever trained. War Cloud won ?25.100 last year, and his trainer expecta hiin to do better this year.
