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NOTES OFTHiMURF Adair Baker have secured a contract on the services of jockey Bnxton for the rest of the present racing season seasonThe The following horses were sold by auction at Churchill Downs Saturday Zwingli Dlllard HiH 80 Terrible Boy Ben Shipley 25 Explicit P Reinbardt 125 Harriet Spaulding Ben Shipley 70 70Several Several San Francisco poolroom keepers who were indicted three months ago under the WalkerOtis law were recently discharged in tho Superior Court because of the insufficiency of the Indictments in that they did not name specific violations of tbe law but quoted the whole section sectionThe The Churchill Downs meeting has been wonder ¬ fully successful to date the attendance and volume of speculation being far in advance of previous fa showings The erection of a new grandstand at tba Downs is under consideration and may be under1 taken during the coming winter r rJ J W Fuller may ship his stable from Churchill Downs to Juarez instead of following out his previ ¬ ous intention of racing at Latonia He has twelve horses in his string at Louisville including Injury Dangerous March BlackEyed Susan Tor Boy Doll Boy Dutch Rock Dorothy Dean Ask Ma Gordon Russell Col Marchmont Lady Willie and Lady Tokalon TokalonSome Some 3000 persons patronized the opening day of the Piping Rock races at Locust Valley Long Island Saturday The admission fee was 5 and many of the oldtime regulars were in the throng The win ¬ ners included Light O M Life Jingo Tillie D Meadowsweet and Matabon Meadowsweet winn of the Brook Champion Steeplechase Trophy was recently purchased by F Ambrose Clark from Thomas Hitchcock Jr with the idea of winning the Harbor Hill Steeplechase SteeplechaseA A new racetrack is in course of construction at Calgary Alta for use next season in connection with the secondary circuit that has been organized in the Canadian Northwest between Winnipeg and Calgary Tracks willbe built or leased in the in ¬ termediate cities It Is proposed to form a jockey club to govern all racing in that district on the lines of the Canadian Racing Associations The c u cult is to begin at Calgary in May and finish at the same place In August AugustNew New Zealand with a population of less than half that of the Province of Ontario Canada has 250 racing Jays allotted by the authority of the Govern ¬ ment through the Racing Conference The Anckr land Club the richest in the country will distribute 163375 in stakes during the coming season a rec ¬ ord for that Dominion The only form of race course speculation approved there is the totalizator which is a rather simpler system than the mntuel method used at Woodbine though tbe principle is identical
