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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF There will be running as well as harness races at the Illinois State Fair to be held at Springfield beginning August 18 Lord Dunraven in England recently paid Lord Derby 51200 for the fiveyearold Hainaulf by Swynford Bromua Hainaults retirement came after leg trouble and he goes to the stud as a sire sireQuite Quite a few Kentucky horsemen are keeping their horses busy during the interval between the close of racing at Lafonia and the opening of the fall season by racing them at the various fairs being tichl in the blue grass and nearby states 8 Polk the developer of Fator Johnson and other good jockeys will soon Introduce a newcomer to the saddle In the son of the old jockey Bur lingame who rode with success in the west a few years back backAt At Pimlico an additional seventyfive feet in length is being added to the betting enclosure randth s concrete bleachersis beirig extended about 200 feet Several new stables and kitchens are also being erected Poacher is establishing something of a record in the matter of being entered in races and failing to starts Including today he has been entered in twentyfour races and has been scratched twenty times winning two and being unplaced twice in the h hur ur that he started in inNat Nat L Byer and his brother Frank will send their respective strings to the Jamaica Long Island track there to be rested up until the opening of fall racing on the metropolitan tracks
