Current Notes of the Turf, Daily Racing Form, 1915-11-20

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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Rotiiner and Coquette are the most noted of the string of horses with which A. J. Goldsliorougb has arrived at Graveseud from Maryland to go into w inter quarters. U. Hoffman, who rode for James Butler during the latter part of the season now about to close, e|iects to ride as a free lance next season. He is now at Gravescnd. where he expects fo reinaiu for tlie winter. The veteran trainer. Matthew Allen, who has been training a few horses at Gravevend, parted with his last ra horse when Oram Hugh llrowne bought the four-year-old MM Magnet. Trainer Allen will g . to Miami, Fla.. for the winter. Trainer Frank McCabe. who was highly successful In training the buyer Britliors string when it was one of the most fiowerfnl on the American turf, is now living at Grav -send and is a frequent visitor at the track, but he has no horses in charge. About one hundred and seventy-five horses quartered iu stables at Penning, that were destroyed, were rewcuod by siaMe Imys and trainers. August Belmonts new stable was destroyed, but his horses had not lieen brought over from Pimlico. W. T. Andersons Kguiout also is believed to have been lost. owners at Helming suffering losses of stable equipment, tmt who saved tlieir horses, include: "Fatty" Auderson. Robert I. Miller, eight horses, rescued; Samuel Ross, twelve: l»r. J. S. Tyre*, twenty-one: Mike Daly, twelve: ••Bug" Carter, one: William Shields, six: William Ua.th. thirty: A. B. S|ireckles. fourteen: Satnl McNaughtnn. eight: Jack Phillips, eight: William P. Buret*, eight: P. Sheridan, seveu. In England, as elsewhere, many prominent ickeys cither lulled to make Hie most of tlieir opjiortunitiea win ii at the top of the tree, cr else were unlucky in rlieir investments. Rearing on this, an exchange says that one old-timer, who is in receipt „f an al-l.anc- from lie- Rcntim-s Fund, is Charles Muniment, who in Mi day .vas called the lucky jork.v. and among many imp utant races won the Derby iwice. St. I.eger twi.-e and the One Thousand juitteas ami naks once each. A ease of some interest was tried in West Aus tralia. when the supreme court was asked to set asid a disqualification for twelve mouths imposed on the owner-trainer of the horse First Loch, lin-poscd bv tlie stipendiary stewards of the Western Australia Racing Association. The hearing took the form of an application in chambers for an interim injunction to restrain the stewards from proceeding with the disqualification landing tlie trial of an action. Tlie application was refused, with costs a-ainst the applicant. on the otieniiig day of the Adelaide meeting in Australia non-commissioned officers and private soldiers iu uniform were debarred from the grandstand enclosure. This old time F.uglish idea of "encouraging"" militarv spirit did not appeal !•• Australians, find tlie incident was. with good cause, productive of reseutuient. If was rcfern-d to in the South Australian legislative assembly, and it appeared as if no one was anxious to accept responsibility in the ntatter. The embrago was withdrawn on the second day— Sydney Referee.


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