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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The Finns place price in race 2355S was 350 to Hh». not :it o to 1«M». as printed. !. W. Bcarjniore. M. F. II.. has been elected a direct* r of the Ontario Jockey Club. According tn Doutscher Sjxirt. l»dame Chereuie- , teff. tlie well-known owner of race horses, who won IhoOrand Irix de Paris in lulu with Nuago. has recently married again. Madame Chercnieteff had laeetl a widow for some years and was acliug as a Kci! Cross nur e when first she met her present husband, a wounded Ku-siui oflicer, in the hospital to which she was attached. s a sidelight on conditions in England it is reported thai 1- Crooning, a jockey, pieaded iuahility to pay on the ground that the stoopage of racing prevented him earning his living. In reply to the chairmans remark that other people pay their taxes. Greening i«-rtii tly replied that other people bad not needlessly Iteen thrown out of work as he bad. He was allowed fourteen days in which to pay. James L. Hoi la ml. Buffalo slock broker, who recently disposed of tiie horses that have been racing in his name to Williams Pros., is iu financial dif-liciilties and lias made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. Tne amount involved is said to be in excess of $:: iu. n» i. The Holland concern transacted business all oer tlie east, having established more than one hundred branches in Atlantic and Central states within the past year. Tie* oross- -oiiiitrv racing season in Cermany was Inaugurated last month at P.erlin-Karishorst. A pn -grain ol seven races attracted a total of 104 iinTors. There was plenty of grief, twenty-rive liirsiS in all coming down, and of these no fewer than nine fell in the opening hurdle race, which ma won bv Tasmania, a tlireo-voar-ohl filly by Ard P-trick She was ridden by the Ceiiiian jofkey W.ishailpl. wiio also wen the next race, a steeplechase two miles and five furlongs, for "apt. Prlnee M „f Sch.inniberg-I.ippe. by aid of a gelding by Sir P-ifick The gale receipts amounted to . »,. .,1. s:i.v Iieut-cher S|Miil ilhe eatrame being li.". centsi. ami Sill 0 » was the sum turned over by the totalizator.
