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NOTES OF THE TTJEF Danny Maliors riding contracts for next year I remain the same as for this Lord Rosebery will hold the first and only claim on him himTlu Tlu statement presented at tho annual meeting of the Australian Jockey Club which races at the Randwick course Sydney showed gato receipts amounting to over 400000 400000Ballot Ballot is in the stud in England at a fee of 490 the odd amount being due to the faet that many English races have allowances for the progeny of sires whose fee is under 500 500R R F Carman will take Meridian Cohort Arcite Bonnie Kelstj Camdeu Elizabeth Harwood The Turk Compton Sir Alvescot Starbottle Scmprolus Rogou Sherlock Holmes Ella Bryson Jack Wall Lady Sapphire Dynamite and seven yearlings to Juarez JuarezDuring During the past eleven years in England there have only been two in which more fillies than colts were foaled In 1905 there were 1002 fillies and 1470 colts and in 1908 there were 1455 fillies against 1450 colts The Bloodstock Breeders Re view says that since and including 1901 the number of colts registered is 17098 and the number of fillies 10797 During the same period 14103 mares were returned as barren barrenMuch Much interest has been shown in English turf circles on account of tho excellent training and riding of his own horses displayed by a barber of the town of Wolverhampton llo was interviewed by a Sporting Life reporter and was found lather Ing the cheeks of a customer His first winning mount was on a twentytwoyearold inmy fourteen hands high The barber trains his horses for two hours each morning before his duties call him to his shop He never bets and never knows what odds are noted He holds a license as a qualified amateur rider riderThe The new totalizator house at Riccarton Christ church is tho largest building of its kind in New Zealand being 210 feet long by SO feet In width and covering threeeighths of an acre of ground There are sixtythree selling windows those for 5 tickets l eing on one side and for S25O tickets on the other side of the building while there are fifteen payout windows for the inner enclosure and ten for the outside The ends which are semi ¬ circular contain the toto faces for showing the total investments on each horse provision being made for fields up to thirtytwo
