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NOTES OF THE TURF. Schuyler L. Parsons good two-year-old, Sharpshooter, recenty bled while at work. Al Burlen Is on his way from New York to Juarez, where he will serve in au official capacity during the winter meeting of the Jockey Club Juarez. Word comes from LouisvKIe of the deatli there of William Brueii, father of Frank Brueu. assistant to John Haclimeister at Latonia and Douglas Park. William Brum wus a starter in the olden days and well known among horsemen. J. W. Hedrick has obtained an option on a Maryland farm, to which he purposes to remove his breeding stock from Pennsylvania the coining spring. Mr. Hedrick is the owner of some twenty thoroughbreds and intends to engage in breeding on quite un extensive scale. Trainer J. O. Keene yesterday sent Briiighurst, Casuurinu, One Step and two yearlings, the Ben Brush Nuus Cloth "colt and Hen Brush My Beauty filly, from Lexington to Senator Johnson N. Camdens farm In Woodford County to be turned out for tlie winter. William Hurley has arrived at the Fair Grounds, New Orleans, with Bell Buoy, Brick and Mortar. Business Agent". Patrick F. and a yearling filly by Jack Atkiu WUisk Broom. Shelby West has arrived at the same place with Tillies Nightmare and Jimuiie Gill. The management of the coming whiter meeting at New Orleans say they will allow no free tickets to be distributed. Coupon tickets will be sold in pads of ten for SI each. The regular admission will be .50. The Indiscriminate distribution of free tickets is blamed to some extent for the enactment of the legislation which caused a suspension of New Orleans racing. While Herman. B. Duryea has not made public his racing plans for 1015, it is almost safe to assume that he will race on the American turf again. .Mr. Duryea met with marked success iu France this season aud his colt. Durbar II.. was winner of the Epsom Derby. Mr. Duryea has been back from France for some time now and was a visitor at the Jockey Clubs headquarters iu New York City last week. We have heard much from Australia in the way of racing improvements, including the starting gate end the numbered saddle-cloth, but perfection is not yet reached, even there. At tlie spring meeting last month the seasons are reversed in tlie southern hemisphere of the premier club, and at Australia greatest race course, Flcmingtou, tlie majority of the cash bookmakers paid out on a horse that was disqualified because there is apparently no system for notifying the ring of such an occurrence. Of course. lie bookmakers hud to pay again over the corrected result. Francis Nelson, in Toronto Globe. With most people shortening sail as n result of the tremendous war iu which the British Empire Is engaged, those in control of racing in New Zealand have, says an Auckland correspondent, been preparing themselves for a marked falling off in the volume of totulisalor receipts. Aucklanders. however, are such keen racing enthusiasts that they still ke o on breaking records in that direction. The Avondale Jockey Club, a suburban organization, held Its spring meeting on tlie 10th and lOtli of September, and during the two days 50,400 passed through the machine, which represents an increase of 0,S05 ou the best previous record..
