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1 . I i t i • i 1 1 : 1 t ► t CURRENT NOTES OF THE TVRF. Manager Matt J. Winn, who is now in New York, will leave for Laurel Sunday to supervise contemplated improvements at that Maryland track. The Greeatree stables Virile was worked one mile and a half Wednesday morning in 2:48 iu preparation for the Saratoga up. Kimball Patterson has decided to send C.iarles-tonian to. Dr. K. W. McCullys farm near Red Banks. N. J., to be tired. He hopes to get him back to the races next season til to run to his three-year-old form. John W. Schorr will ship his extensive racing string from Saratoga to Louisville In a day or two. having decided against going to Belmont Iark as many of the western owners will do. With his family lie will go to Memphis to remain until the opening of racing in Kentucky. The Piping Hock Subscription Steeplechase has a value of .-.:;. oiMi. all of which will go to the winner. The Whitney Memorial, which is run in the spring. and the Harbor Hill, for three-year-olds, which is decided in the fall, now gives the Filling Rock Association the distinction of furnishing the three rich est cross-country races of the year. It has been officially announced at Connaught Park by Honorary Secretary C. Koss that next spring the inutuel machines will be the only system of speculation employed there. At the close of the present meeting the old betting ring will be remodeled and 21 machines installed, causing from 12 up to |10, including several combination machines. Tlie order issued b the Saratoga stewards last Thursday that in future no ponies would be allowed to meet horse- after tlie finish and lead them back to the judges stand, was not because any speetftC charge has been made of wrong-doing, but because this practice has kept the way open for the shift-i lag of weight, pads and is distinctly against the rules of racing. The leading cross-country owners are among the subscribers for the Piping Rock Suhsription Steeplechase to tie run at the autumn meeting and re-! new iil in 1916 and 1017. Tin- nominators are: Harrj LaMontagne, Northwood Stable. J. i;. wide- ner, Greentree Stable. Thomas Hitchcock. Edward M. Weld. Shoshone Stable. B. T. Wilson. Archibald Barklie. Deep Run Stable. Ral Parr and F. Ambrose Clark. Osear lyewisohns recently purchased English thoroughbreds that have jusi reached this country include. Swiftfoot, b. e, 3, by Thrush Abbots Anne; Boots, h. -. 4. by Hessian Little Flower: Bunchy, b. f. 2. bv Llangym Bunch Grass; Lady Edwimi. eh. f. •".. by I.ochryan — Mis. Bobs: Bis. b. f. .".. by Dundreary — Englands Queen; Merry Answer, b. f. 2. bj Benvenuto— Pop the Question; Benevolent, b. e. bv Benvenuto— Linton Lilly. W. R. toes isa-t ported Neville II.. eh. c. 2. by Joe Chamberlain -| Kate Angelo. eaiue in the same shipmo.il.
