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NOTES OF THE TURF. Another shipment of the John E. Madden yearlings has just been made - from . Saratoga to Lexington. John E. Madden is to judge the thoroughbred classes at the American Horse Show, Madison Square Garden, New York, December 7 to 12. The big two-year-old string that raced - so sue cessfully for James Butler is now housed at Sheepshead Bay. Trainer Bensou transferred his charges there from Laurel. A number of jockeys are among the British subjects now interned in Germany, including Warne, Blades, Shatwell, Spurgold, Lister, Siade and Brown. Several English trainers are sharing their captivity. An application for stall room at New Orleans has been received from G. W. Stubblefield of Dallas, Tex., who will ship three racers there, including the two-year-old Chock Eye. He added that J. Cuneo would ship three horses to New Orleans and that other shipments would be made from Dallas. Arthur Redfcrn has announced that he will try and return to the saddle and if he finds it possible he will ride at Juarez, whither he has gone. The last time Redfern appeared with the silks up was just about five years ago. Since that time he filled out and when he visited the races last summer he did not seem to be within fifteen pounds of riding weight. He says he can do 112 pounds and hopes to scale even lighter. Among the English trainers and jockeys recently interned in Germany is Arthur Madden, brother to Otto Madden, Newmarket trainer. The lad has been partially paralyzed for years, the result of a fall when riding. Otto Madden has been subjected to much annoyance in England recently because he happened to be born in Germany while his father was riding there, although all his family on both sides are English bred and born. In consequence of the war the Racing Stables Institute at Maisons Latfitte, France, had to close its doors for some time, but it has been reopened and is being found particularly useful as a meeting place for trainers, jockeys and others connected with racing who still remain in the district. Those remaining there include the trainers Adele. E. Mayer, Preston Burch, J. Davis, W. Davis, Gildon, Lawrence. Eugene Leigh. Jean Lieux, Snyder and Harry Shields. Jockey F. ONeill also is in Franca. II. D. -Brown has declared off the stakes announced for the navana meeting and will make ?;50O the minimum purse value, with special ,000 features for Sundays and holidays. The track proper at Marianao has been completed, with a top dressing of eighteen inches of black loam. Several of the stables have been finished and the others are lieing rushed along, as well as the clubhouse. The club membership already exceeds five hundred and includes representatives of some of the leading families of Cuba. Henry T. Oxnard, breeder of the Futurity winner, Trojan, the second that has come from Virginia since the institution of that Coney Island Jockey Club special in 1SSS, has decided to sell his stallion Golden Maxim at Lexington on December 1. Mr. Oxnards reason for selling Golden Maxim is that he has another stallion of the blood of Bend Or at his Blue Ridge Stud in Fauquier County, which seems better suited to his mares. The other stallion is Sir Wilfred, son of Ossary and Plumeria and sire of Trojan, Headmast, anil other two-year-old winners of tiie season just finished. Major Charles Beatty, D. S. O., has been appointed aide-de-camp to General Alderson, commanding the Canadian expeditionary force at Salisbury Plain in England. Major Beatty is one of not a few Englishmen and Irishmen of education and social position who have taken up the work of training race horses and steeplechasers under license from the turf governing bodies. Like Hon. Francis Lambton and other trainers whose names are found in the roll of honor from the battlefield, he has abandoned the pursuits of peace and returned to the field of active service. Major Beatty trained with much success for the late Captain Harry McCalmout, Lord Howard de Wolden and other owners. The El Paso Times in describing the opening of the Jockey Club Juarez meeting on Thanksgiving Day, says: "That crowd yesterday was an impressive tribute to the sport of horse racing. It was easily the greatest crowd that has ever assembled for an outdoor event in this section of the country. The greatest not only in numbers, but from a representative standpoint, for all the social and business life of El Paso was present in that vast throng that thoroughly enjoyed the magnificent program provided for its entertainment by the officials of the Jockey Club Juarez. If there has been any doubt as to the hold that racing, as conducted by the officials of the Jockey Club Juarez has upon the local public, it was easily dispelled after watching that vast throng in its enjoyment of the sport provided."
