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NOTES OF THE TURF. Theodore Roosevelt was a guest of the Chilian Jockey Club, at the Santiago races on Sunday. J. C. Rogers, of Midway, Ky., lias purchased from W. T. Crosthwalte his interest in the seven-year-old chestnut mare Lardella, by Lackford Clio, by Rayon rtOr. Race riders in Europe are supposed to pay some heed to their instructions. The Belgian Jockey Club has suspciulitl the jockey. W. Earl, for the remainder of the year for having ridden Hibou in the Grand Prix do Boitsfort contrary to orders. Two hundred feet of the four hundred feet of steel structure for the Ontaria Jockey Clubs new Woodbine grandstand are erecteel. and the cement piers a tv in for the remainder of the work, which can llius get along all winter regardless of the weather. Jockey Johnny Reiff, with his wife, arrived at NeW York Saturday night on the French liner France, after an absence of four years from America. Charles Korb. who has leen riding for Michael von Mautner in Vienna, was also a passenger on the France. The Jockey Club stewards have accepted and filed Ihe report of E. C. Smith on the complaint of AVilliam Garth against the acceptance of entries from the stable of J. . Talbot t on the grounds that such horses were not in the hands of a licensed trainer. The following licenses were recently granted by the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association: Trainers Gayle Nibbs, C. Hill. Harvey Boyle, Joe Brooks, John Wlialeu: Jockevs A. Jackson, John Jeffers, W. J. Daly. G. 1earce. Joe Ryan, J. W. Dayton to ride only horses trained by himself.. The Melbourne Australasian, in the course of a discussion on the system of paid stewards, which was in force in Australia for the past year, says: It is an extraordinary thing that the amateur as a Steward was put tip with so long after the amateur ns a judge, starter and handlcappcr had been done away with." They are not given to criticizing officials in England, and it must have been an intolerable situation thai brought Vigilant to say this iu the London Sjiortsmnn: "Starting, such as was seen in many of the races during the four days reduces the sport 1o a mere burlesque, and in regard to the Cambridgeshire It was veritably pitable to see the labor of trainers that had done all iossIble to get their charges to the post in the pink of condition thrown away.. For all the chance "some of the horses had from the moment the tapes Hew up they might just as well have remained in their stables." Licenses have recently been issued by the Jockey Club to the following: Trainers Calvin Banks. William Dalziel, Clint DeWitt, Joe Edwards, Pearl Knhns. Edward Trotter, John F. Smyth, R. Pending ami J. Randolph .Jockeys Frank Adams. John P. Smyth. Richard Watts. . J. Brownlees application for a trainers license has been tabled. J. E. Madden has sold to Leopold Ilouser of Vienna, Austria, Tenara, winner of four 0,000 trotting purses. Tenara made lier first appearance 011 the turf in 1913, and secured a record of 2:05 in one of the 0,000 stakes. Her total net winnings for the season was 5,000. Last year Count Leopold Houser, the purchaser of Tenara, bought from Mr. Madden, Soprano, which was the champion of Europe the past season. Another lawsuit to upset a racing decision has ended in the same old way, the plaintiff loses, and pays the costs if he is good for the amount. The case was that of the owner, trainer and rider of the horse, Blackpool, disqualified at the Moon Valley meeting in Victoria. Australia. The owner brought the action, which fell down as stated. The only result of these actions is to establish the jurisdiction of the racing authorities. There was at one time a large amount of opposition to racing in Germany, and it was understood that a preposterous percentage was deducted from pari-mutuel winnings with the object of reducing the tendency to speculate. Tilings have altered. The Kaiser is now busily engaged in the sport, and the Baron Onpenheim, who heads the list or winning owners, will have a total of 50,000 to his credit. This, needless to say, is far above the average of the toji figures ill England. One year the Duke of Portlands score came to largely over 50,000, but under 00,000 lias sutllced on many occasions to put an owners name at the top of the list. Perhaps it would be as well not to peer too far into the midst of antiquity, because one conuot vouch for the accuracy of some of the old tales that are told. There is, for instance, the tradition asso-siated witli the Godolphin Barb that ranks with the Darlev Arabian and the Byerly Turk, as one of the corner stones of the thoroughbred fabric. The Go-dolphins name is found repeated again and again in the extended pedigree of every animal entitled to a place in the General Stud Book. Yet the storv goes that at one period of his life he earned his keen bv drawing a water cart in Paris. A Mr. Coke of Norfolk found him in the French capital about the vear 172S. bought him and sent him to England, where he passed Into the possession of the Earl of Godolphin. Exchange.
