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MOTES OF THE TUB AMLOAD The wellknown jock y H Robbins was married to Miss Jannaway at feambourn Parish Church De ¬ cember 11 11King King Georges jockey Herbert Jones figured as a rider over hurdles at Newmarket December 12 riding Fair Test in a schooling gallop gallopThe The death of Frank WafM a popular racing official took place at Nottingham on December 12 after a long spell of lung trouble He was clerk of the course at Southwell and Assisted also at Liverpool Leicester and other race meetings meetingsTbc Tbc death took place att Newmarket last month of James Howard the llgbtweight jockey who won the Great Metropolitan on ITatbcr Blind in 1907 ami the Lincolnshire Handicap on Duke of Sparta iu 1909 both horses starting alt 2O to 1 1The The stewards of the National Hunt Committee give notice that they forbid tbe use for horses run ¬ ning In races of plates known as American toe clipped shoes and of those having a sharp flange as they consider them to be dangerous to other com ¬ petitors Any Infringement of this order will entail a severe penalty penaltyBanff Banff a bay gelding by Bran tome Lucille Mur ¬ phy bred by Edward Corrigan foaled in 1906 and sent to England in 1910 baa developed into one of the best hurdle racers there and when winning tbe Hilsea Steeplechase at Portsmouth last month did it in a fashion that led to predictions of much dis ¬ tinction for him in tbe future futureAt At Auteuil France December 12 J A de Roths ¬ childs Englishbred horse Bryony carrying 141 pounds won the Prize Cap at two miles and three sixteenths and paid the extraordinary odds of 11473 to 100 in the mutucls The American horse Novelty with 154 pounds up and ridden by V Powers was the favorite at 6 to 4 and ran second secondE E de Mestre who won the first two Melbourne Cups with Archer in 1861 and 1862 is alive and hearty at tbc age of SO The Victoria Racing Club would have liked to sec him at Flemington oatbe jubilee of the Cup For years be was a very popular visitor to Melbourne and the stillliving James Wil ¬ son and tbc late John Tait were with him the most prominent men in connection with the Mel ¬ bourne Cup up to about 18SO E d Mestre owned or trained five Cup winners in Archer twice Tiia Whifiler Calamia and Chester
