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w CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF H. W. Plant claimed Deckhand for 8750 after he won the sixth race Saturday. Orlando of Havana is a notoriously lad actor al the post, and the steward* al Oriental Park ordered the r fnsal of farther entries of the colt. Fred Bartow will leave New York for California about Fei ruary 1. to take ap the horses of J. H. Rossetor. for whom be "ill train this year. Thomas Welsh lias returned from France, where he -vent some time ago on a mission to look over the Preach establishment of his employer, Joseph K. Widen a-. It i- v.;:d that the Kentucky Jockey Club will gil ao stake of lcs„ value than 13.000 added at ChorchiU Downs and Latonia and not less than 80,000 added at Lexiagtoa. A eablegraai from Ismdoa says the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase closed with sixty-one entries, among which were four former winner of the race in Poethlya, Ally Sloper, Sunloch and Lattear III. A Preach thoroughbred which went all throagh Ho- war with a raralry regiment has. after being "demobilised," won seven races in succession in the space of five weeks. He i- called Le Petit Mo-- sieu. and belongs to Capt. Felix Petit. Tiny, who appears to be the best three-year-old of the season in the Argentine, was purchased last year tor ,000, and an offer of 8100.000 has been refused for him. The Argentine dollar, however. does not approach the value of the American dollar. Entries for the ,000 added Crescent City Handicap, for three-year-ohts and over, to be run oa January ;:]. elose next Saturday. Weights will be announced by racing secretary Joe McLennan on the following Wednesday. This event will be at one and one-eighth miles. As a testimonial to the memory of tie- late Andrew Miller, former secretary ami treasurer of the Saratoga Racing Association, the name of the Keener s ikes Mill be changed to the Miller Memorial Stakes. This is a condition race of a mile and three-sixteenths for three-year-olds, ami is one of the oldest fixtures on tin- Saratoga list, having Btsi been raa in 1070. j| was discontinued after 1893 until 1001, when it was revived.
