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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Edward McBride has Umght a yearling colt by Sain--Whisk Broom fruit K. R. Bradley. Tlie will of John Corlett. the noted editor of The Snorting Times. lis| osed of unsettled property of the value of over 40.o00. The Newmarket ihnigiit in meeting, the last week of this month, will close the flat racing season in England, bul it continues longer in Ireland. The liest horse In England over a long distance of gr •uud is the characterization applied to Lauius. Mr. L. Neumanns four-year-old. by Llaugibby, winner of the J«m key Club Stakes. His Majestys -olt. Jungle Cock, was second to Ioiloisk in the Snaivvell Stakes at Ne viuarkct. in which he was a lt lo 1 chance. The Kings Vervain* also failed in the Rretby Handicap. F. D. Weir may decide to take Old Rosebud lo Jnarex with the other luemliers of his stable. Tile Kentucky Derby winner of 1914 made his start in racing at Juarez ami should find conditions there congenial. King Cobalt, owned by Grant Hugh Browne, which won at Mount Royal Tuesday, has been in the stud for the past three or four years, having stood for tbe Canadian Breeding Bureau in the province of tiuebec. Ba was trained and taken to Montreal to race by "Iuddiu" McDauiel, at one time a famous lider. Mr. E. S. Tattersalls colt by Cicero— Sceptre made his tirst ap|iearance in the Rons Memorial Stakes at Newmarket, ami did not run in encouraging fashion. The critics were inclined to doubt if be Would ever prove worthy of his parentage. Mr. Tattersall has not yet seen tit to give him a name. He was a bad last iu a lield of five. J. S. Wallace will hold a sale of horses in the paddock on Monday at Latonia. E. T. Col ton has aunounced that he will again sell out. The horses of Colton to go under the hammer are Hanovia. Blackthorn. Dig Dipper and Deugro. Some horses belonging to John Walters will also be sold. They are Trout Fly. Stratiiern. Josie and Capital! Bravo. W. F. Schulte has sold one of his yearlings, a bay filly by King Olympian — eliding By. for ,000. The name of the purchaser was not made public. He lias two more at his farm near Louisville, which he prizes highly. One is a colt by Jim Gaffucy — Dineiuock. and the other a filly by Jim GafTney— Queen Eleanor. It is understood that George J. I-oi;g has been negotiating for Jim GafTney, and that stallion may make his future home at Bash-ford Manor. The Iimlico meeting is looming big on the racing horizon. The progressive element seems to have gotten the up|«-r hand in the councils of that con-serative old body, the Matyland Jockey Club, and the program outlined for the coming meeting is full of new departures. The raising of the purses to 1915.sh0O is one of the new features which meets with approval on all hands. The Iimlico people are not iu the racing business merely for tbe money they can squeeze out of the game. They have declared themselves quite well satisfied with a return of six per cent on their investment, and any balance over they are willing to devote to charity, the bettering of "race conditions and to bigger money for the horsemen. - Baltimore News.
