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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Jas Johnston has arrived at Belmont Park with a stable of twelve including the jumper Gold Bond BondPart Part of the famous old Gutteuberg nice track has been made into church property and a building is to be erected on it for the use uf the archdeanery of Jersey City Newark diocese dioceseIf If our information is correct says Le Jockey of Paris we may announce that the finance minister after a searching examination of the question will renounce the proposed tax of ten per cent on en ¬ trance to French race courses coursesThe The threeyearold filly Selma G which lias not ractil since the Jefferson Park meeting last winter is displaying speed of a high order in her training gallops at Churchill Downs suggesting that she is ready to win at the first asking askingW W R Coes twoyearold filly Cinderella by Celt Toots which won her first start at Jamaica Friday in a manner that stamped her as above the ordinary was one of the high priced yearlings of last year bringing 5000 at the Saratoga sales salesJockey Jockey Morys blames riding orders for hist Thursdays defeat of Exterminator by Under Fire He was lie says told to wait in front and did so but also states that when Under Fire made his bid and Exterminator wan called on lie wasnt there thereTom Tom Osborne the veteran English jockey who won the St Legcr of 1873 on Marie Stuart and rode a host of other good winners lias had to go into Newmarket Infirmary owing to serious trouble witii one of hits legs Osborne is iu his sixty seventh year yearS S C Jlildretlis good threeyearold Purchase which injured himself at Pimlico is again in good Ixidily condition and taking his training at Bel ¬ mont Park in a way quite satisfying to his trainer He will probably be seen under colors at the Belmout Park meeting
