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NOTES OF THE TURF. Jockey Arthur Pickens is a recent arrival at .Juarez .from California and has applied for a riding license. Palmer and Shields have arrived at Juarez from Oklahoma with fifteen horses, principally yearlings by Jesse- James. W. T. Crosthwaite has bought from James For-sytho the two-year-old colt Tetan, by Dorante Bettie Gray. "Will Perkins will train him. It. L. Daker has bought from S. K. Hughes the yearling chestnut colt by Transvaal out of Ethel Simpson. He will be trained by Jack Baker. L. W. Hicks, who developed jockey I. Hill, has retired from racing and has invested in a rancn Hear Elk City, Okla., where he proposes to engage in cattle raising. Hill is with him. C. F. Buschemeyer lias purchased from J. E. Madden the yearling chestnut colt by Star Shoot Berry .Maid, and the vearling bay colt Turco, by Hastings Turquoise. J. C. Milam will train and raco them for Hawthorns owner. J. H. Mead, owner of Brookfield, has two likely coming two-year-olds which he has just named, securing the name of Wildwood for the brown colt by Hilarious Lady Esther, and Tobacco Box for the chestnut colt by Martinet -May Lowry. J. F. Newman is seriously ill at his home . Sweetwater, Tex. He has been suffering from a complication of diseases for several mouths. Mr. Newman is rated as one of the wealthiest men of western Texas, the bulk of his fortune being in land and cattle. He owns 23,000 acres of ranch and grazing land near Sweetwater, on which are 20,000 head of cattle and 125 thoroughbreds. On the opening day of the New Zealand Cup meeting at Blcearton Cbrlstchurch. the owner of Postillion reported A. Oliver to the Judicial Committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club for breaking an engagement to ride that horse in the Stewards Handicap. Oliver was fined, 00, and was told that he would have been suspended but for the fact that It would liave interfered with another owners arrangements. There never was a black thoroughbred who proven himself a pure dominant for bay. brown or black writes "Boulanger" in the Loudon Sporting Lif.;. Seventv-five per cent of the blacks in the twenty-two volumes of the English Stud Book are by a chestnut sire, or out of a chestnut mare, and in the breeding of the remaining 25 per cent, there is, with, scarcely an exception, stout chestnut blood in the second or third removes. It is reported that an agreement has been readied bv the managements of the various tracks in Mary-laud by which the following dates will be sought from the Jockey Club: April 1-17 15 days, Bowie; April li-May 5 15 days, Havre de Grace; May 5-24 10 davs, Pimlico: September 14-30 15 days, Havre do Grace: Octolxir l-:jl 20 days. Laurel: November 1-11 30 days, Pimlico; November 12-2! 13 days, Bowie. A New Orleans correspondent says that the recent efforts of outsiders to make trouble for the meeting there were just what was needed to inspire New Orleans people to action. They are now enthusiastic over the coming meeting as an attraction lor tourists, and there is no chance that they will approve of any course that will drive prospective visitors away to any other winter resort. "Why go elsewhere? We have it here," says one of the street banners. In discussing the breeding of remounts, a London writer says that one hundred years ago the number of thoroughbred sires whose services were available in England and Scotland, and made use of for half-bred inarcs, was much greater than in recent times. Yorkshire, Laucashlre. Westmoreland and Cumberland, which now are hard set to find work for fifteen to twenty thoroughbred sires, in 1S14 weie traversed bv at least twice that number, in addition to many cocktails which possessed considerable breeding. Horse racing is a dead issue in Europe just now savs a London dispatch, but the sport is doing its share to assist in the times of distress. The buildings at the famous Ascot racecourse in England are, all being used in connection with the war. Some provide quarters for the wives and children or the soldiers. The five shilling stand lias been fitted up as a military hospital. At the famous Long-oliamps course in Paris the military authorities have inclosed their cattle on the heath without, however, encroaching on the racecourse proiicr.
