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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Deckmate, The Decision and Explosive will be shipped to Tijuana at the conclusion of the Bowie meeting. .English turf writers note that since the resumption of racing after the miners strike there has beeh a. great lack of betting money. Many bookmakers have ceased .operations in consequence and the London Sportsman in comment prints: "The rating boom has passed at least for this season and no serious-minded person regrets it passing." Grover Cleveland Fuller, the Chicagoan who in his day was a talented rider and led all American jockeys of 1903 with 229 winning mounts, has fallen into evil and alcoholic ways of late. He has been in Chicago jails several times and is now in a New York one, charged with attempting burglary of a Broadway restaurant. At some angle booze is cqnnected with Fullers latest trouble.
