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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. W. II. Rowe, registrar of the Stud Book, has been spending a few days iu the blue grass section of Kentucky. ! The veteran Green B. Morris, who was reccntlv presented with the filly Rose Juliette by horsemen friends at Laurel, will celebrate his seventy-eighth birthday in a few days. At the annual thoroughbred yearling sales, which closed Buenos Aires Saturday, the horses dis-liosed of brought a total of ,000,000. The highest ■riee realized was 4,000. Among the Shoshone Stable horses at Belmont Park is ■ big chestnut two -year-old which looks exceptionally promising. He is aptly named Mustard, as he is by Golden Maxim — Bit of Spice . Trainers at Belmont Park are discussing the purchase of Ballot for 5,000. The consensus of opinio* is that Major McDowell has been fortunate in securing so good a horse- for the price paid. The Middle Park Plate, run at Newmarket England, October 15. was of the value of 5 925 to the winner this year, and by winning Argos put his owner. L. Neumann, at the head of affairs in Eng laud for the first time in his career as a turfman. A coroners jury decided that acute alcoholism was responsible Tor the death of jockey J. Montour at Baltimore- last week. He was stricken upon his arrival from l.atouia with a string of horses. He has been ele-nied a license- to ride iu Keiitiu-kv on account of his lack of condition. He was eighteen years of age.
