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NOTES OF THE TURF FROM ABROAD Arion the winner of the Warrnamboo Australia rand Annual Steeplechase at one time pulled a bakers cart Mr George Hooper of Campcrdown purchased Arion for 100 from Mr J McCullagh two and a half years ago and since then she has won 41505 in stakes stakesThe The West Australian Turf Club lias decided to offer next season stakes totalling 152075 For the annual meeting the stakes have been increased 72500 but the cup of 10000 is not augmented though the general stakes have been Increased by 17500 The hurdle races will be dropped droppedFor For one owner to win three races in one day at Ascot is an extremely rare occurrence but the late Mr W C Whitney accomplished the feat in 1001 on the last day of the meeting Kiliiiarnock taking the Alexandra Plate Grave and Gay the Windsor Castle Stakes and Elizabeth M the Kings Stand Stakes StakesThe The New Zealand turf has lost a brilliant steeple ¬ chase performer in Corazon which died at Napier In IHl Corazon was quite at the top of the cross ¬ country performers In the Dominion He won the Vangaiiiil and Great Northern Steeplechases thit year but his greatest feat was when he crried 171 pounds and ran Parltiitu 142 pounds to a head for the New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase when a fresh time record was made Corazon which was rising ten years old was a son of the Dread ¬ nought horse Coeur de Lion and was owned and raced by his breeder Sir William Russell RussellStatistics Statistics in connection with the French Derby race meeting at Chantilly on Sunday June 15 sho that the gate receipts amounted to 31400 against 19 00 the previous year Tho amount of money handled by the parimutuel was 055710 as against 515085 in 1912 The amount of money laid on horses In the Derby alone was 204910 204910According According to the Berlin Lokal Anzoiger it is understood that a bill for the taxation of bookmakers will be brought forward in Germany this session The details of the proposal are not known but It Is presumed that bookmakers will be compelled to pay a fixed annual sum for a kind of license the business thus being legally recognized by tho state stateAn An episode that has probably no parallel marked the proceedings at the Windsor Meeting on Saturday June 21 No one in the enclosures cither hackers or layers seemed to be aware that the off for the TwoYearOId Selling Plate had taken place till they saw the horses Hash past the winning post Betting was brisk all the time they were running the same prices being ollVreil as they were going by the judges box as were tendered before the start People In fact actually booked bets after the race was all over some backing the winner and others horses that were beaten
