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NOTES OF THE TURF. Ji-ekoy Joseph Dreyer was married to a Montreal girl at Toronto a few days ago. The Saratoga Association for the Improvement of the Krectl of Horses has distributed blanks for the United Hotel Stakes, the Grand Union Hotel Stakes, the Spinaway Stakes, tlie Hopeful Stakes and tlie Grab l!ag Handicap, to be rim at Saratoga next year. Tlie Toronto Driving Club management Is weighing Hie merits of a plan to move the judges stand at Hillcrcst twenty feet back, bringiug the stretch out that much farther to the south, and make tin? turn, where mi many falls have taken place, easier. As a matter of fact, the turn now is not as sharp a K- tlie northern one at Dufferiu, yet horses seldom fall at the latter track. President J. T. K. Laurendeau and Manager S. X. Holinan. of the Dorval Jockey Club, have returned to Montreal after a trip to Kentucky, where an order was placed for eighteen pari-iniituel machines for next springs meeting at Dorval. A formal application has been forwarded to Secretary W. 1. Frascr of the Canadian Racing Associations for alliliatiou and for dates for next season. At Maisons La Hit to track, near Paris, September 20, the Prix de Llludson River for two-year-olds at seven-eighths of a mile, was won by the Duke Deeazes bay colt Ambre II., by Ogilen Lady Amelia, carrying 120 pounds and giving from four to thirteen pounds to his opponents. It would be of interest to know how and when this Madilen-bred youngster passed into the possession of his aristocratic owner. Tlie Australian Jockey Club is barring bookmakers horses and Sir George Clifford, chairman of tlie New Zealand Racing Conference, proposes to go a good deal farther. BookmakiVig is prohibited in New Zealand, where the totalizator is the only legal method of racing speculation, but there is a certain amount of surreptitious betting with men who carry on the business. Sir George wants to see it made a broach of racing law for an owner to m-jke a bet with a bookmaker, the penalty being disiiualilicatlon of ids horses. t It transpired at the annual meeting of the Western Australian Turf Club that the cost of running the totalizator was nearly :7 per cent, of the gross revenue derived from that source. This included the years government i;ix of .!,; 5U0, hut still was such a particularly heavy item that the club is trying to devise a more economic working method. With this object in view, it is by no means improbable a representative of the club will be sent to study the working of the pari-mutucls in Paris. In wages, printing and incidentals, apart from the tax. the machine appears to have cost the Western Australian Turf Club over 5,000 for eighteen days racing, so it Is not surprising that an attempt is to be made to lessen future expenditure. Sydney Kcf-,- cree. Though racing has readied sucii a high standard in Kuenos Aires, it must not be supposed it is tlie same throughout the Argentine. "Country" racing there is rather poor, and. writing from Kuenos Aires, a correspondent says it does not compare favorably with that of fair-sized towns in Australia. In proof thereof he forwards a program of a meeting held at Cordoba recently, and adds At this meeting, us vou will see, there were four races only, and while the highest prize was only a little over 00 the entrance fee for that race was a little over 0. Willi no second or third prize. Cordoba Is the third city of the Argentine, with a population of 120.000. Of course, racing is booming In the capital liucuos Aires but elsewhere the game is not alluring to owners." Sydney Referee.
