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■ . : CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. I The Golden Gate Breeders Association is much elated over the pronounced success of its meeting r. and will give a dinner to its members and friends j, at the St. Fhwcls Hotel. September 9. l The old Major Thomas sign, which hung in the f Belmont Park paddock on a tree for nian years, but which w is recently missed, has been put back in its place by order of Superintendent Pent. Mm h surprise has been caused in French sporting . circles, sas the Paris Matin, by the announcement that Idmuud Plane, one of the oldest :in.| nio-t ex- _ tensive owners Of thoroughbred race horses in France, will s.-n his racing stable on October .». M. j Blanc is the father in law of Prime Roland Bona j parte and grandfather of Princess Oaorge of Creoce. Some Idea of the disastrous influence which the i Btopl age of racing is having OB the value Of blood- stock in England uiav be gallered from the fact that at a sab- at Messrs. Tattersalls recently, i Vane, a sister bo Plying Pnx, l frrme Vampire, i sold for 9. She lias been covered bj William i Ituiiis. In other instances bloodstock changcU i bands at a givmg-away price. 1 I Program books for Hie coming autumn meeting of the Ontario Jockej Club aiv being sent out. The total amount of added money lo be distributed hi 39,700, in seven dais, averaging over 09 pet , race, with overnight handicaps of ,000, 99 and 99, the lowest value of any race being 1915.sh09. The lisi of entries to stakes are Ihdh numerous and blgfa-• lass. Tho autumn meeting will commence on . Saturday. September 1v and continue to include Saturday, September 25. After George M. Fan Gordens Rose Marian had simply ran away from c W. Clarks Frisky in I lace for tWo-year-olds over the Presidio track at Ska Francisco last Tuesday. Clark ".oi on the safe side for futiirt similar races by buying the filly from Van Jor.len for ,000. The purchase of , Rose Marian was interpreted on all -ides ns another of the uian indications that racing has cease back j to sta :inl many of the members of the association . are quietly sending their agents to gather up speedy j horses. i Ill ril v is well engaged iu the Maryland fall stak.s. This is the unlucky fowling -pice* — Lad] Hamburg eojt which, as a two-year-old in Kng-land last year, ran in eight races without winning, but was se rond in live important slake races and third in two. being left at the post in his other start, the Hurst Park Foal Plate. He is a good colt and his In k ma change iu this country. He be longs to H. P. Whitney and if be is sent to the post, will race this year in the name of L. S. Thompson.
