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Show The racing stakes won in England during the past year amount to nearly half a million sterling. Two-year-olds won l")9,6ii0; 3-year-olds, U4'04;i, and 4-year-olds and upward, 1-14,4(10. A "stipendary stew ard" is the latest novelty on Australian tracks under tlw Victoria Racing club. It is his duty to investigate or "work up'' cast's of crookedness, crook-edness, and report the same to the stew- j ards. j Starter J. B. Ferguson, who handles the flag in the west, has purchased the English stallion Ossian, by Salvator Music, price $10 OuU Ossian is 10 years old and won the St. Leger in lS8;i, the year that St Blaiio won tho Derby. Mr. George Engemaw, who has made a mint of money on his race courses at Brighton and Clifton, has bought the Franklin Trotting park at Saiigus, Mass., paying lf.'-.HK f.ir tlio old track. Mr. Eugeman will turn it into a modern race course. Roliert Conner's catalogue of his trotting trot-ting stock at his Tarrytown farm notes recent additions in Suii- l. 2:10, the fastest fast-est mare ever foaled except Maud S; Ansel, 2:'.', by Kt, -e-juni-er; Keverie, yearling record :li'J, and Alixtil !j, 2:!tH. i |