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NOTES OF THE TURF. Hie Anierican-lired mare. Airginio, has Rone wrong in the knees in Australia and prohally will not race again. Resides the fourteen juvenile winners that he had in this country. Yankee was represented in England lasl year hy two. White Star, recently purchased in England hy S. Green, will reach Australia, where he is to enter the stud, March I.!. Dculsehland. formerly the property of Barney Schrciber, is now owned hy S. Cliristenson of San Francisco and is quartered at Tanforan. Jockey Charles White recently applied for a riding license sit the Jockey Cluh Juarez course. His application was rejected ly the stewards, as he had been refused :i license by the Canadian Racing Associations. Presiding Steward Charles F. PriJe makes it a rule to refuse a license to any rider who is in bad standing at other tracks. Henry Lee, of Rrookline, Mass., gentleman rider, is on a visit to Russia, where he will take part in a number of races for amateur horsemen. John S. Rarbee, of Glen Helen Stud, reports a bay colt foaled on January 12 by Peep oDay .My Gyps. This is the second foal reported in Kentucky this season. Messrs. Stone and Rueker. of Georgetown, Ky.. have sold a half interest in the bay colt. 2. by Toddington Crimsoti Rose, by Star Ruby, to J. S. Hawkins. The colt is promising. It is estimated that the New Zealand racing clubs will give away about 50,000 more in stakes this season than during the racing year of 1912-33. A. Henry Iligginson. Henry AV. Bull and Harry S. Page have been appointed as representatives of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association on the Hunts Committee "II. T. Oxnard has reported the first foal of the year at his Rlue Ridge Farm in Airginia. lie arrived January 1.; and is a slashing big bay sou of Golden Maxim and Notasulga. Francis Nelson, presiding judge on various Canadian tracks, is enjoying a vacation trip to the AVest Indies. lie will visit the Panama Canal before returning to Toronto early in March. Itayard Tuckcrnian. Jr.. lias sold his good steeplechaser Maltbie o Sidney L. Josephthal. amateur rider, and the gelding has been sent to Mr. Joseph-Rials place at East AVilliston, L. I. He will be fitted for the racing of the coming season. J. AAatson AVebb has been elected to represent New England on the Hunts Committee for 1!14. Charles K. Harrison, Jr., lias been re-elected on the committee to serve for Maryland. The delegates are chosen annually by the limits of the respective districts. From New Zealand conies details of a new invention that automatically records and totalizes all operations in pari-mutuel betting. It is operated by electricity and was devised by G. A. Julius, a Sydney, N. S. AV.. engineer. Its practicability and elliciency have already been demonstrated in connection witli racing at Auckland, and it is being Installed elsewhere in New Zealand. Harry Worcester Smith intends to resume race riding during the coming season anil he has already made application for an amateurs license to the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association. Mr. Smith lias always been an anient sportsman, and a dozen years ago be was ono of the best of the amateur riders. In recent years he has confined his riding to the hunting lield, but he has come to the conclusion that he can derive more satisfaction from the steeplechases. F. S. Aon Stade, amateur rider, lias gone to Ireland to take part in point-to-point races and hunting. Mr. Aon Stade has ridden the good hunter Gold Plate in most of his winning races and he proposes to keep himself in condition through the cold months, lie will be back for the opening of the hunt club racing season in New York state. R. Rlakcman Lewis, another skilful amateur rider, has gone to Ireland for a season of limiting and racing. He will have Mr. Aon Stade for both companion and opponent in the lield.
