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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF King Gorin, winner of the Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs Thursday, is a superlative mud runner, and over a muddy or heavy track a dangerous opponent for the best of them. The St. Leger winner. Lord Derbys Keysoe, was cleverly beaten bv Mr. M. Singers Flying Spear, by Spearmint Gallop Along, in the ,000 Kingsclere Stakes for three-year-olds, one mile, at Newbury, English racing values to owners are improving and costs falling as the season goes on. At Manchester the stake offerings were raised to 0,000, an increase of 4,000, and the entrance fees reduced to about one per cent. Frank ONeill, Mr. W. K. Vanderbllts Jockey, is coming to tliis country for a two-mouths rest at the close of the French racing season. He is a St. Louisan. Matt McGee is also planning a trip from France to his Kentucky home. He is riding for Baron Kdouard Rothschild. ONeill has ridden fifty and McGee forty-eight winners so far this season.
