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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The value of the Australian Jockey Clubs Derby to the winner this year was 2.2!t5. Last year the winners share was S22..ISO. An F"I Paso jewelry house will present a valuable stickpin to the jockey riding the greatest number of winners during the first week of the Juarez meeting. W. G. Yanke stopped over in Chicago yesterday on his way to Juarez. He reiKirts that he has sold all of his horses except Brave, and this horse is lame and turned out for the winter. Many are complaining that they are shut out fre-ipiently and cannot get their money down at Bowie. That is their own fault. They hold off until the last two or three minutes and then rush in and congest the machines. Tlie great bulk of the money goes down in the last three minutes. If the public would place bets earlier there would lie no trouble alKiut getting down. — Baltimore News. After bearing addresses to the jury from attorneys for both sides and taking under advisement a motion to dismiss the complaint on the ground that the herding of war horses was not a breach of contract. Justice Morschauser. in the Supreme Court at White Plains. N. Y.. adjourned until Monday the trial of the suit of the Empire Racing Association to break the lease of the Fmpire track held by the National Fair and F.xposition Association. Work on the construction of a steeplechase course at the Moint Royal track at Montreal has been commenced. The course will he a circular one. laid out on the plans of the majority of steeplechase courses on the other mile tracks of Canada. The footing for the steeplechase will be as good as that for the I rack proper, and fast time should be made over it. The club will run a series of steeplechase races at its spring meeting next season. The Futurity of 1!M« closed with 52S entries. Of these 175 were void under the conditions of the race. 13.H were declared Novemlier 1. 1915, at 0 each and sixty-six at 0 each. This leaves 14" now eligible. A further declaration is due July 15. 19H . Those which then remain in will furnish the field for the big race. Of those now eligible II. P. Whitney is the leader with seventeen eligi-I les. G. A. Cochran is second with fifteen and J. E Madden third with twelve. Forget is represented by a chestnut filly hy All Gold and Jersey Lightning by a chestnut colt by the same sire. Although tlie turf campaign in Germany came to a dose the first of this month. George Archibald, the Oakland. Cal.. boy who succeeded in heading the list of the winning jockeys, will not return home as he did last fall. Mrs. Archibald has baaa informed that her son will stay in Berlin during the winter and l e ready for the opening of the next racing season. The fact that Archibald would have only a mouth or so to stay with his mother, and. further, that he Iik-s not want to subject his wife and infant .laughter to the long trip, perhaps decided the American jockey in staying iu Berlin.
