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NOTES OF THE TURF FROM ABROAD Sir Dightou is the name given by King George to bis colt foal by Bayardo Princess de Galles Over r 000 0 was put through tiie totalizator on the ihree days of the last Auckland New Zealand meeting meetingFor For the Melbourne Cup to be run in November no fewer than 234 nominations wore made This is truly a wonderful entry for a twomile race raceA A great feat was recently performed by Lieutenant TKan of Kriegerh in Austria lie rode the winner of the steeplechase at Magdeburg and then aero planed a distance of eighty miles to1 Gruuewald where lie rode another winner winnerF F Herbert was immensely proud of the compli itieht paid him August 1 when be rode the king s horse Plutadeau at Goodwood He has also ridden for the emperor of Germany a governorgeneral of Uarlada and for one of the grand dukes of Russia each in his own country countryThe The death took place onSaturday July 2C at his residence Bachelors Lodge County Meath Ireland of Joseph Lowry the wellknown breeder Mr Lbwry bred Bachelors Button Bachelors Hope Bachelors Double Bachelors Wedding and many other good horses He also race l a number of horses horsesJames James Allen who acted as private trainer to Mr Croker at Glencalrn Sandyford County Dublin for the past seven and a half years has resigned that post Allen had under his charge from tlnle ft time many good class performers and two excep tibiSalty highgrade winners In the Derby hero Orby and the One Thousand Guineas heroine Rhodora RhodoraSome Some modifications have been made concerning the entries and forfeits for the Grand Prix de Paris The entry which was formerly 200 will be 400 and the forfeits will bd asr follows First forfeit 20 second 80 Horses declared nonstarters will phV SI 00 instead of 120 These alterations will be applied to the 1915 Grand Prix for which the en ¬ gagements are due next September 1C Hlghbridge the American Grand National horse wliIclifell at the first fence at Aintree is still con ¬ tinuing his losing eareer in Germany Thursday July 24 he was not in the firsi five for the Her ¬ cules Steeplechase at Karlshorst in a field of nine The distance was two miles and an eighth and the Tace was won by Captain Count Strachwitz Engllsh breil fiveyearold gelding South by Dlakka out of Aggie Osborrie OsborrieThe The Tetrarch continued hfs winning vein at Good ¬ wood when he made the whole of the running for tlie Rons Memorial Stakes and finished half a dozen lengths in front of Mr Joels Princess Dorrie The son of Roi Herode holds engagements this season ill thfr Redcar Produce Stakes this month the Champion Breeders Foal Stakes at Derby and the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster in September and the Imperial Produce Plate at Kempton in October OctoberForty Forty engagements have been made in Paris for the Epsom Derby of 1915 M A Aurnont who had a try for the classic this year with Nimbus has four in his name M Edmond Blanc and Baron Kdouard de Rothschild five M Caillault four M GastonDrevfus three M Michel Ephrussi Mr W K Vanderbilt Charles Carroll M Calmann two each Dnc Decazes M A VeilPlcard Frank Jay Gould M H de Mumm T P Thome and W A Chanler one each
