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Show TALES CP THE TURF, Sunol has improved very much since she returned to California-, and wis, ut last reports, JtHI pounds heavier than the day Marvin e!iipj-d her from Cleveland. To avoid cotifn-ion of names, Judson II, Clark, of I-;imi:;i. N. V., has changed toe name of his stallion, full brother to Sunol, 2:10, tod -n. Wellington, as there was a horse previously registered under the name of Lord Wellington. Tho Australian racehorse, Carbine, has run in twenty-seven races, won eighteen, heen second in five, third in three, and was once unplaced. As a combination of speed, staying capacity, and weight carrying power ho is a marvel. The accounts of the present condition of Isaac Murphy are extremely bad. lUv ports speak of him as looking "like a man who is going to die, and that before long." Tho Lexington doctors aro said to fully believe that he had something more than alcohol' liquor in the shape of poison on the occasion of the Monmouth Mon-mouth handicap. OrrinA. Ilickok ha collected a large stable of horses at San Francisco, which race in tho east this spring. Among them are the pacer Adonis, 2:1H; Beaury Mac, 2:1!)J; Slineer, a ;t-ycar-old brother to Charles Derby; Arlington, by Abbots-ford, Abbots-ford, and Prince Warwick, who failed to get to the front last season. Indianapolis is to have a new race track and a running meeting in 1801. Tho Hoosier capital and Detroit are two western cities that in time will bo prominent prom-inent points in tho western racing circuit. cir-cuit. Within the next three years Mr. D. J. Cainpau intends to organize a jockey club at Detroit and givo lirst ! class running meetings annually. I Starter James Rowe is likely to make a success with the flag at Clifton and j elsewhere. Those who remember the; little eighty pound boy who rode Katie Pease, Abd-el-Kooreo, Harry Baxsett and other famous horses of tho McDaniel confederacy in 1hT2-'i,, will not bo surprised sur-prised that the lad of that day now retains re-tains as a man the firmness and decision of character that marked him as a jockey, i |