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NOTES OF THE TURF. There has been continual complaint in England this year of ragged starts, "tragedies of the gate" they are called. John E. gladden "has purchased the five-year-old chestnut mare Susan, by Kingston Handmaid, by Feilowcraft. and she has joined the band of broodmares at Hamburg Place. J. L. Hall, patrol judge at various American tracks, passed through Chicago yesterday on his waj from the east to Juarez, Mex., where lie will serve as patrol judge during the long winter meeting scheduled to begin on Thanksgiving Day. In South Australia the Railways Commissioner of late years has displayed a keenness for assisting the racing public to reach the race courses in comfort says an Adelaide paper. The latest idea is the erection of a platform alongside the race course boundary at Cheltenham. A warrant directing the sheriff of Kings County to attach at least 5,000 worth of the property of the Brighton Beach Racing Association has been issued by Supreme Court Justice Benedict in a suit brought by the .Mechanics Bank. The suit is for fiioney loaned on a note and interest. American-bred horses are doing quite well at jumping in England. For instance, at Lingfield Park November 2, Sumurun. by Burgomaster Black Venus, a Whitney cast-off, won the Mill House Hurdle Race at a mile and a half and Fermor, by Watercress Florence Breckenridge, took the Shovel-strode Handicap Hurdle Race at two and a half miles in the best finish of the day. The late "Tommy" Burns was thirty-four years old. He was born at Port Hope. Ont. He rode in Germany this year for Ilerr Von Benningsen of Mausbach and other owners of prominence. His contract for next j-eason with the same owners provided for an annual salary of ,000. with ten per cent, of the earnings of his winning mount- added, and that his expenses should be paid. E. J. Mason of Oskaloosa, Iowa, was a belated arrival at Lexington last week with the .stallion Rapid Water, and the mares .Taueta. Grace G., Swell Girl and Little Buttercup, consigned to the Kentucky Sales Companys recent sale. The horses arrived just two days too late for the sale, having been en route for eight days. Rapid Water and the mares were sent to Hamburg Place and will probably be sold privately. Detective, a horse that carried Charles Boyles colors to victory iu the Hamilton Derby as a three-year-old iu 1909. and also won other important ffvenls for the Woodstock Stable, is dead at Woodstock. Ont. Inenmouia was the cause. Detective was a chestnut stallion, seven years old, by Meddler Admiration, and was purchased in the spring of 1909, from Matt Allen for ,000. He has been in the stud since his retirement from the- track. A month ago he was returned to his owner at Woodstock, after having been used for breeding purposes by Robert Davies of Toronto.
