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w CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Silas Veitch is wintering a string of jumpers at the Laurel track in Maryland. Major August Relmont. Jo-oph Widener and W. R. Miller have booked mares to the Hamburg Place Futuiity winner Ormondalc. sire of Purchase. Among the trainers wintering at Renning. the home af the old Washington jockey Club, are Matt Brady, Matt Smart. W. P. Batch, W. H. Brooks and John F. Schorr with the F.dward R. McLean band, as well as several other-. Oriental Park is dcmiibed by an American sportsman who recently visited the Havana rack as the most licautiful racing plant in the world, a poem of landscape and eonrinaaeat, embellished by tropical foliage and a profusion of flower-. The two-year-old Wishing, which made her turf debut at Havana Friday, is a daughter of Wishing Ring, the mare that broke all n I OClla for winning odds in the pari-mutuels when she won a race at Latonia. .lime 17. 11112. paying ,88».3g for straight . H. P. Whitneys speedy horse Dominant, winner of the United Slates Hotel. Saratoga Special and Hopeful Stakes, lias been retired to the stud. The Whitney stallions now standing in Kentucky include Broooaatick, Peter Pan, Pennant, All Cold. Thunderer and Dominant. In hi- inaugural address James D. McNtilty. the recently elected mayor of Saratoga, told the citizens of that popular racing center of the American turf that "the continuation of racing is important io Saratoga Springs and 1 believe that the association should not be subjected to annoyances." One of the brightest prospects in the juvenile colony at Churchill Downs is Anne F.lizalieth. u slashing two year-old daughter of Free L.-.nce —Cutter, in the stable of George J. Long, sin.- is rated as one of the liest of the well-bred youngsters in thi barn of this popular Louisville turfman, and la-i fall turned in a number of good catling trials. This daughter of the great Free Lame is a sister of Mr. Icings good stake winner. Fl .flutter. Anne BUaabeth is a cheat aal in color, of splendid conformation and possesses plenty of style.
