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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF A large number of Mrs. L. A. Livingstons thoroughbreds, which were quartered at Kant-ocas Kami in New Jersey, have been shipped to her Pontiac stock farm at Cobourg, Canada. Henry McDanieH who -will, train for R. L. Gerry next year, will have to depend on the coming two-year-olds and a few other young horses to build up his stable for the 1020 campaign. It is said that Mr. Gerry will add to his small string by purchase before next spring. The funeral of Jack Stevens, of Louisville, Ky., was held at El Paso, Tex., Monday.-- Mrj -Stevens died Saturday morning, succumbing to an illness of long standing. For more than twenty-five years he served as a bookmakers clerk on tracks in tills country, Mexico and" Canada. Trainer J. Walsh, who is in charge of Verna B. and other horses quartered at the Jefferson track, met with a serious"accident last Friday while going to the track on a street car. He had one of his legs crushed and it will probably be necessary to amputate it. He was taken from the carto the hospital. Those people who have been going into hysterics over Tetratema for next years classics may well pause after seeing the stylish performance of Prince Galahad in the Dewhurst Plate. This is a grand colt, which is bred and built on the best staying lines, and if all goes well with him he will probably win the Derby. Winning Post. One of the leading anti-racing aritators on the other side, one Rev. F. B. . Meyer, writing to the London Times, expressing his objection to the issue of premium or lottery bonds, says that this system of finance infuses a feverish unrest .into the national pulse, like that which precedes the announcement of all the winners at the Derby or the Oaks. At tho Newbury, England, October meeting Golden Square, after winning a selling race, had to lie bought in for $..000 after being entered for ,2."0. At the beginning of the season this five-year-old was the property of Mellxiurne Inman. the billiard champion, who bought him fur a low figure and. after winning a couple of races with htm let him go for ,800. The hollow victory of Blue Dun in the Railway Stakes at the Irish Currigh of Kildare was of special interest. She is by Corcyra Blue Tit, lias won all the four races in which she has taken part without ever being really asked to gallop fast and is a half-sister .to the yearling colt by Swynford. which made the record price of $."7.."00 at the annual sale of the Sledmere yearlings at Doncaster.
