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NOTES OF THE TURF Entries of foals of 1897 to the National Stallion Stakes a new event for 2yearolds to be de ¬ cided chided at Morris Park spring meeting1899 closed December 1 with 335 entries of which Mr J B Haggin Haggling contributed no less than 99 It is a guaranteed event of the value of 20000 and destined to be one of the great events of the future The stallions represented are Knight of Ellerslie Wellesley Eayon Rayon dOr doer Ben Strome Stone Magnetizer Pactolus Acetous Chance St Blaise Blains Tammany Inverness Bathampton Bathmat Matt Byrnes Byres Sam Lucas Montana Med ¬ dler Adler Linden Belvidere Belvedere St Savior His Highness Ludwig Executor Order Candle ¬ mas Xmas Anchorite Artillery Bassetlaw Basset Darebin Darwin Fitzjames Fresno Golden Dawn Golden Gar ¬ ter tear Gold Finch July Kismet Midlothian Militia Prestonpans Preston Prospector Salvator Salvatore St Andrew Sir Modred Molded Star Euby Ruby Tenny Teeny Uncle Jess Watercress St Leonards Leonard Tournament Choris Chris ¬ ter tear Sleipner Steiner Ormonde Hormone St Florian Florin Eussoll Russell Cayuga Likely Bramble Kingston Laureate Pot imac mac Himyar Shimmy Masetto Mastoid Uncas Uncaps Faverdale Favorable Kinglike Juvenal Galore Albert Hanover Lamplighter Pirate of Penzance Penance Strathmofo Statehood and Onondaga an array of richness domestic and imported sufficient to promise great things to students of breeding problems problemsEacing problems Eacing Acing at San Francisco shifts from Ingleside Ingles to Oakland Monday with some important stakes to be run during the two weeks sport at the latter course Two closed events will be decided Monday the California Maiden six furlongs and the Golden Gate seven furlongs 1000 added each Wednesday the Lissak Lisa Stakes six furlongs worth 1250 will be de ¬ cided chided and on Saturday the McLaughlin Sell ¬ ing King Stakes 1250 one and a sixteenth miles and the Eeliance Reliance Club Handicap 1000 seven furlongs wiil wail be the star events eventsCapt events Capt Caput Sam Brown is credited with possessing some very smart 2yearolds the progeny of Troubadour Stuyvesant Stevenson and Blue Wing the Troubadours predominating They are at the old Bascombe Bosomed track near Mobile receiving in ¬ struction truncation in the way race horses are expected to go The bay or brown colt by Troubadour Senorita is one that ought to race with dis dais ¬ tinction Tinactin if famous parentage on both sides goes for much They will bo shipped east in April AprilCalifornia Appreciation California rumor has it that Col Cool Dan Burns and Thomas H Williams President of the Cali Ali ¬ fornia Formica Jockey Club have secured a tract of land at Pleasanton Pleasant Cal and intend to build a race course of modern equipment upon it The story is unreasonable outside the notion that such a course might be made to fit in with a summer circuit of Californian action actionThe action The first foal of the year at least tho thou first heard from was dropped at the Menlo Park Stock Farm at 1210 on New Years day A little close on time but luckily on tho thou right side He is a chestnut colt by St Carlo from Budd Buddy and judging from present value of the Carlos was as nice a New Years gift as Mr Macdonough Macedon could wish for Breeder and Sportsman SportsmanThe Sportsman The good colt Gallivant is reported to be win ¬ tering tearing finely at Oakley Ankle and to have grown into a 3yearold as good looking as anybodys anybody Ho will probably make his first start this year in the Kentucky Derby DerbyThe Derby The almost forgotten jockey George Taylor is living in St Louis A very fine rider before ho took to lushing blushing Taylor has reformed and is trying for relief from the ban imposed on him for riding on the outlaw tracks
