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I , , i i - 3 1 | t • I 3 1 r ■ ♦ CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF The Italian Jockey Club proposes to lay out a course in the neighborhood of Milan somewhat on the lines of the popular Paris rendezvous, the Bois de Boulogne. The French trainer Freeman has left the service of the Spanish owner Count de la Cimera, and the place will probably be taken by Henry Counts brother. Clout has been engaged as first jockey to the stable. Albano. the crack Spanish mare belonging" to the Marquis Aldaraa de Cssia, met with an accident during the winter and will race no more. She was the best handicapper in Spain and French-bred by Badajoz — Alcove. The early February weather on the other side has been terrible for racing. Training in France and England was virtually stopped for days, and the opening Auteuil jumping meeting was ruined, and the English sessions at Manchester and Hurst Park had to lie abandoned. That fine New Zealand rider Hector Gray is on his way to England again to ride for Sir H. Cun-. liffe-Owen. This is to be his last season as a jockey. Gray is a good general horseman and will train a stable at Newmarket next year and probably have his present employers horses. R. T. Wilson, president of the Saratoga Associa-1 lion, has been called suddenly to Berwyn, Pa., by the serious illness of his eldest daughter, Marion. She is visiting at the home of Mrs. E. B. Cassatt and is dangerously ill with double pneumonia.
