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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF tiny Garner who has been riding abroad for the last four years has signed a contract to ride for the L S Thompson stable H is an able rider who in 110 headed the American jockey list listFrank Frank J Clark formerly superintendent of the Conev Island Jockey Clubs course will IK offi ¬ cially connected with the new automobile speed ¬ way at Sheepshead Hay He has been connected wltli racing for fortyseven years yearsWarstep Warstep ran two miles in 324 in running the Trent ban Gold Cup at Wellington X K April 17 She carried 12J pounds She is by Martian Step Dancer and has won many important long distance races in New Zealand this season seasonThe The excessive use of spurs on a hurdler in a recent race at Sydney Australia caused the jockey to be suspended for a mouth The trainer was liniMl 25 for insisting upon the use of spurs instead of dummies contrary to the advice of the jHkey jHkeyDuring During the big meetings at Calcutta at the end of last vear and the commencement of this year the best times recorded were Fiveeighths Pantomime i and Wldgiewa 11 in 1014 each three quarters Sid Walk 121 l14Vi seveneighths Kempion 13 and Le Sollel 127 one mile Ie Soliel 114 l41Vi mile and a quarter Way ¬ ward nml Wild IK 207vi milo and a half St Andrews 1111 231 1 Harrr N Irice owner of Superstition is greatly incensed over the order from an agent of the Humane Society that the training of the horse lie topped H has insisted that Superstition never ha pulled up lame and the fact is that be is sprung in tty Unees and it is one of the charac ¬ teristics of flic get of St Simon Mr Price said Why Hichard Croker told me that Orby his Derby winner was badly sprung
