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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Jockey Roscoe Troxler will shortly sail from New York for Havana, where he will ride for J. H. Louchcim and others who desires his services. There is a report that A. J. Joyner will succeed R. C. Benson as trainer of James Butlers big string of thoroughbreds. Mr. Benson has been in poor health. Word from Baltimore is that a string of sixteen horses that Dr. Larrick will race for Dr. J. S. Tyree at New Orleans will go south in a private car this week. In the lot will be King Neptune. Carbide. Celto, Herbert Temple and a number of two-year-olds. J. D. Adkins, who so successfully trains the string raced by R. J. Mackenzie, wealthy Canadian sportsman, is in New York for a few days and will leave for Sau Francisco shortly. San Vega, one of the , Mackenzie string, has recently been fired and turned I out in Kentucky. It is the intention to give him a i brief season in the stud before returning him to the races next year. Buckliorn. winner of the Brooklyn Handicap of 1914, will be mated with the good mare Helen Barbee.