The morning times., 1896-02-27

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NOTES OF THE TURF.
Supt. Brush, OF the Brooklyn Jockey Club
has put the harrows OH the Gravesend track
and the horses stabbed there, are being
gatloped.
IA Swigert, recently appointed steward
of the New York Jockey Club was not a
judge at the st. Louis electric light track,
as some papers printed.
Judge Badger, Of the court OF common
pleas of Ohio, has decided that receiving
money in Ohio 10 be sent to a poolroom
i'll Kentucky TO pay racing bets is viola
ton of. the laws OF Ohio.
Secretary William Porter, of the Louis
vile Fair and Driving Association, re-
signed his position yesterday, and George
Lindenberger, of that city, was elected to
fill his place.
j. J. McCafferty, who is now in New
Orleans. says he may visit Enoch Wishard
in England, and, if he is satisfied with
he outlook there, take over a string OF
horses in 1897.
Scroggan Brothers. OF Kentucky, have
purchased from Hankins * johnson the
Toll m, fstl- al,
Buchanan, who died last spring, at the
head of their breeding establishment.
a lot of horses were out exercising at
Gravcsend yesterday, among them hen
Brush and Handspring Ben Brush was
full of running. He was weighed ana
measured. lie tipped the scales at l,O40
pounds and went under the measuring bar
at 1913
Among the earliest foals of the Messrs.
keene's Castleton (Ky) breeding farm
are the following Black filly, by Tourna-
mcnt-inIp. Elsie; chestHuts colt, by st
Leonards-imp. Lucille; bay colt, by
Chorster-inlp. Eccentricity, and chestnut
Iilly, by yticrahad-imp. Innerdale.
The latest addition to the San Francisco
starting machine is an electric timing
device. When the button releases the
screen, or apron, it sets timing clock
going. The timer can stop 1t as the
winner reaches the winning point.
Charlie Boots. the California turfman.
has notified Secretary Mcintyre, of the
brooklyn Jockey Club that he will have
his stable on here in time to start Victor
III the Brooklyn handicap. Mr. Boots has
quite string Of serviceable horses, and
his stable Will b" "A desirable acquisition
to Eastern racing.
Declare, who was sent to Eugene
Leigh's Lii Belle Farm, near Lexington.
last fall will be shipped back to New
Nork in the course of week or TWO.
Mr.. Leigh thinks he Will stand training.
and advised Mr.. Dwyer To Ihat effect
sometime ago.
william Lakeland is schooling Ajax
and Sport over the timber. Both of them
are doing well, although Sport still shows
disposition to sulk occasionally. Lake
land thinks that if hc wdnld take to the
work kindly there isn't horse In America
that could beat him at the cross country
game. s
Reports from England Are TO the effect
that all Mr.. Croker's horses are doing well
Montauk has grown into very promising
three-year-old. "1
Walter Durack, who owns a stable OF
No nrI.
are Rapidan ard Lyndhurst, is suffering
from lung trouble. He was recently removed
from his boarding house TO a hospital.
Handspring is developing into an exact
counterpart of his sire, Hanover. He is
now about the same height as Hanover
lG.l, and is filling out in his quarters
where he most needed development. The
Gravesend trainers are already beginning
TO prophesy that he will make a clean
sweep at the spring hree-year-old stakes.
DR.. Frank Van Dcrveer, who is in charge
of Monmouth Park, Long Branch. is au-
thority for Ee statement that the big
track Will be opened on Monday, May 20,
for weeks trOttng.
sam" noggett, the well-known Jockey
for the Oneck Stable, watched the horses
at work at Gravescnd Tuesday morning.
Doggett has Just arrived home from San
Francisco, where he rode for G. E. Smith
c'Pittsburg Phir). Mr.. Smith himself is
on the way home.
j. W. Rogers famous Sprintcr, GlcnmOre,
six, and Perry Bclmont's Magian, four,
have arrived at Morris Park from Elm
endorf, Ky, where they were turned out
all last summer. Magian won, among
other events, III 1894, the White Plains
Handicap. He was one of the best two
ycar-olds Of the year, and if be trains on
ought TO be high class handicap horse
this season.
Frank Bray is a candidate for assistant
to Starter Flynn. He was an assistant
to Flynn at the time that the Jersey tracks
did fourishing business and understands
the latter's ways thoroughly.
Nick Chandler. is schooling Bessie
Browning, Eliza Belle, and another three
yearold which the Messrs. Beard purchased
from McCaffcrty last summer, over the
jumps. They will rot lie raced until fall,
however, as the rules OF the Steepechase
Association prohibit three year Odds from
contcsting in stake events until September
Of their three -year-oId career. Chandler
also has in his care Dwight, st. Anthony
and Richards. The latter was a winner at
Morris P ark last fan. He promises to be one
of the best jumpers of the, year.
FOUGHT FOR 4 CYRIL.