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, NOTES OF THE TURF FROM OTHER LANDS. There is a possibility of J. Evans accepting a retainer to ride in Italy. Cousul. 3, by Cicero out of Game Chick, has left Lamliourn for South America. Yellow Jester and Magyar have been purchased privately by Mr. Clarence Hailey for abroad. Having nothing in his line to do in his own country, the expert French jockey George Stern is one of the jockeys riding in England at Newmarket. II. S. Persse. the noted Stockbridge trainer, is in a nursing home in London, and it is feared that lie will have to undergo an operation for appendicitis. There was a lot of white about Whitefields victory in the Maiden Three-Year Old Sweepstakes at Newmarket. September 30. The colt is owned by a Mr. White and is by White Eagle. II. C. Palmer, who for twenty-one years was a jockey in France anil came to England as a refugee, has joined the Army Veterinary Corps. He Is a sou of Mr. II. T. Palmer of Cambridge, all of whose six sons are now in the army. "Boxer" Cannon, a first lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, now serving in India, has on one of his short " iieriods of leave been riding as an amateur with great success, and steered three winners one afternoon. Mr. Cannon is a son of the Lordship Farm Newmarket trainer, and a cousin of Mornington and Keuipton Cannon. J. B. Joels Kings Joker made a promising debut when failing by a short head to beat Ali Bey in the Buckenham Stakes at Newmarket. September 2S. It was the previous experience that the Duke of Westminsters colt had had that gave him the narr .w advantage. Built on a larger scale than his three-year-old sister, Jest, and having as much scojie now as bsurd. Mr. Joels colt looks like making a good horse.
