Evening star., 1908-01-14
TURF AND TRACK NOTES.

Mr.. Clarence H. Mackay purchased re-
Gently from Mr.. w. O'Brien MacDonogh
the brood mare Sloe. dam OF Oran,
good two-year-Old In 1906
Six brood mares were recently sold oy
Mrs. l.. A. Barnes, owner Of Rancocas.
to residents Of Trinidad.
AZ the next meeting Of the stewards OF
the English Jockey Club, January ~ a
rule will be voted upon which Will 90
away with the necessity OF morse actu-
aliy going over the course when ne has
walk-over. 1t will be sufficient In sucn
cases for the jockey to be weighed out
and the horse cantered past the judges
stand. ~
wilson. IRIS. trainer for the last ten
years, won in stakes and overnight races
&fO 600 with his employers moderate
stable in 1907. He has twenty norses IN
training at Belmont Park, some OF them
the produce Of Mexican. a very handsome me
horse, which as a two-year-old won for
Clarence II. Mackay some good stakes,
and was sold at auction for a high price
to Mr. Wilson when Mr.. Mackay retired
as an active turfman.
Five handbook men with moderate bank
rolls were put out of business in Chicago
Saturday because a gang of shrewd Eel
lows hired q telephone at nearby drug
store for the afternoon. and by that
means ascertained the names Of the win
nerS at new oTItdHS UCIolC ShO III .
reached the handbook men by wire.
No trainer in the world handles horses
for so many distinguished persons as does
Sam Darling of Beckhaufpton, Wits.
England. 1t was Darling who trained
Disguise for ]. r. Keene when that horse
was nearly as good as Diamond Jubilee.
In his stables at present are forty-five
race horses. the property or the Imperial
stud of Russia, the imperial stud OF Ger
many. the Duke of Devonshire. Earl of
| 1@lpp 49, owl of
NELL. Capt. Guar. ]. B. Craven. c. f..
Howard and the Americans, Messrs. Car
roll and Mackay.
In a New York letter to the London
Sportsman James r. keene is quoted by
a correspondent as saying that the Amer
lean turf is in need of more gentlemen
I who will race for sport and not for the
financial gains possible. Eve have not
many, and the Jockey Club has much to
contend with said Mr.. Keene. las for
| our Jockeys" he added, they are fiat
tered and spoiled. and just as soon as
they should become useful they become
worthless. But we are improving all the
! time"
The stockholders of the Coney Island
| Jockey Club reelected the following di-
| rectors yesterday: Harry Alexandra,
James Gordon Bennett. j. II. Bradford,
Frank 7. Clarke. II. B. Duryea. c. Eel
loves, F. Gray Griswold. John G. Heck
| scher. Thomas Hitchcock. jr.. H. B. Hol-
lins Clarence III. Mackay. Andrew Miller.
e. d. Morgan, Herbert c. Pell. Schuyler
L. Parsons, James p. Scott, v. f..
| Schaumburg. Thomas II. Smith. F. K.
Sturgis, William X. Vanderbilt. J. W..
| Wadsworth. George Peabody Wetmore
| and H. p. Whitney.
| The special commissioner of the London
Sportsman has strongly urged the English
| Jockey Club to restore Lester Refn to all
the privileges of the turf there. The
| writer says that Reiff has not been ac-
| corded the same leniency which was ex-
| tended to other jockeys who were disci-
plined at the same time that the Amer
| lean jockey was. Reiff is now In Cali
| fornia and is much too heavy to ride.
even If the English stewards were to give
| him a license. 1t was while riding De
| Lacy owned by the late w. c. Whitney.
| in race won by Richard Croker's Minnie
D.. ridden by Johnny Reiff. that Lester
| Reiff incurred the displeasure of the Eng
| liSh stewards.