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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. Jockey Tommy MeTaggart is still on the ailing list at Sew Orleans and is unable to accept mounts. At the receat meeting of the Jockey Club Andrew Miller presented it with a [minting of his great gelding Bo—atr. Publish steeplei basing this winter begins at noon, and the last race is set for about :.:.:o. All travel to the meetings is by road, and these hours are aeeeasary on account of early darkness. Charles W. Moore, by the luirchase of thirty-seven and one-half acres of land from Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Bradley for 0,000 has made an addition to his Mere Hill breeding farm at Lexington. Ky. The application of Carroll IL Shilling for a jockeys license was not laid on the table by the Jockey Club Thursday, a- has lxen customary, but was referred to the license committee, possibly portending favorable action. The miitiiil pavili ii at the Hamilton Jockey clubs course resounds to the tramp of armed men just now. and the iron men will come later. It is used as a drill hall for the local contingent of the ae.v 120ib Wentworth Battalion. In the future exercising boys at the New Orleans Fair Groaads will not wear arm numbers, but in-stead they will have- to have a saddle loth bearing a number corresponding to the bones number on the program when warming up a horse between races. A. K. Macomber of California, one of the latest teii nits to the turf, is vi-iting in New York. Mr. Macomber will race a number of foreign-bred horses that srere purchased abroad for him in Walter Jennings. They are noa at the Charleston race course, bring titled tor the •nsmnsehlag season. The Racing Calendar, the official publication in connection with the sport in England, publishes this announcement in the latest issue to hand: "The stewards of the National Hunt Committee give notice that they will only elect as sandaled riders, and license as Jockey s. iiersons who are serving in his Majestys force-, or who sire not eligible for sueh service, or who have presented themselves for attestation under the group system." Mobile. Ala., is now mentioned in the dispatches as likely to have a brief race meeting following New means. It would be a revival of a sport that flourished there long, long ago. The records of earlv Canadian racing tell of the coming of bones all the way rrom Mobile, on the Gulf of Mexico, to run three mile heals and other races at Caledonia Spring-, half way betWfea Montreal ami Ottawa. It wa- a tremendous Journey in IS45, before the days of the railroad. — Toronto Globe.
