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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF In the future all races at five and a half furlongs at Belmont Park will be run over the main course. R. C. Frakes is the latest appendicitis victim and left Latonia for Lexington Saturday afternoon to undergo medical care. Jockeys Garner and Scobie leave Iitouiu for Belmont Park next Friday to ride the Mont fort Jones pair, St. Henry and Emition, in the Futurity. Jockey D. Stirling is much in the limelight at the Hagerstown Fair meeting. lie has nine winners to his credit for the first three days, four on the third day. Seven thousand five hundred dollars was the purchase price of Scobies contract. K. Spence had been offered 0,000 for it by Eugene Wayland. but Spence decided tiie use of the boys services of more than ?2,iiU0 value, as he continues in Speneos employe while he is training Jones horses.
