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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF Jockeys C. Dishmon and J. Robbins rode two winners each at the Blue Grass Fair Monday. Jockey Paul Long was married last week to Miss Isabel Terry. The young couple will reside at Louisville. T. B. Waters, who claimed, Pomerene at the Lexington fair meeting last week, won with his new acquisition at Erie Wednesday. Jockey W. Hughes was an arrival at the Erie Track Monday from Erlanger, Ky., accompanying the stables of T. B. Waters and W. C. Daly, Jr. Jockey L. Fator is showing good form at Saratoga. He was first under the wire seven times last week and now figures in the list of the thirty leading riders. The horses of T. J. Pendergast, including Bo McMillan, winner of the Sanford Memorial, go to Churchill Downs next Friday. Jockey Fred Smith leaves with them. J. F. Flannagans Lytle went wrong so badly in his last race through the field that he has been sent to Monkton, Md., where he is turned out on Frank Bonsais farm. Hopeless, owned by Hal Price Headley, and Carnarvon, the latter the property of Frederick Johnson, were shipped to Kentucky to be prepared for autumn racing there by trainer W. Buford of the Headley stable. It develops that the Xalapa Farm twin yearlings, a colt and a filly by Theo. Cook Momowcta, were purchased by Pat Malone of this city instead of Mac Finn, as was at first reported. Finns offer for them came too late. Condition books of the Westchester Racing Association for the fall meeting, which opens September 2 and continues until September 1G, were distributed among the horsemen today. For the opening day a surplus of 05, obtained through advances in selling races, is added to the purses.
